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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bookwormjillk 4% though 15h
Ruthiella I enjoyed the story of St. Ogg. 15h
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mcctrish @Ruthiella me too 15h
dabbe The water motif again ... crossing the Floss and making it this time and not drowning. Wonder if this story will be important later. 8h
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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mcctrish Poor Lucy and whoever has to do the laundry ! Is it time for Tom to go to school yet? 2d
Bookwormjillk Tom needs to go. The drowning fear is weird. I guess there weren't swim lesson in those days. 2d
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Ruthiella Poor Lucy! Such a sweet kid who genuinely loves Maggie. 😢 2d
Clare-Dragonfly Poor Lucy! As soon as she turned up covered in mud I pretty much knew what happened… 2d
ElizaMarie @Bookwormjillk YES AGAIN with the drowning! I mean. they should do a swim lesson here and there to keep this fear at bay. I am so OVER Tom. He is such a jerk. I hate how poor Maggie tries so hard! 2d
Leftcoastzen I was just waiting for something really messy to happen at /near the home of Mrs Clean! Maggie & Tom a handful , poor Lucy ! 2d
dabbe I predict a major reckoning between Maggie and Tom at some point. Boy, is he an arse! 8h
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Ruthiella This book is making me tense! 😬😂 4d
mcctrish Fuss farts and nincompoops the lot of them. 4d
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 4d
JenlovesJT47 I‘m going to try to catch up, can you add me to the tag list pretty please 🤗 3d
Bookwormjillk Tom and his punishments…. 3d
Clare-Dragonfly This book is funny but uh… is there going to be a plot or what?! 3d
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3d
Leftcoastzen I‘m with @mcctrish ! 😁yes , not very plot driven so far ! The hat ! The hat ! 3d
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk Tom likes to be in control 😉👮🏻‍♂️ 3d
dabbe @Leftcoastzen @Clare-Dragonfly @BarkingMadRead @mcctrish @Ruthiella Channeling LARK RISE, anyone? 🤣

#ffn (#fussfartsandnincompoops) Way to go, @mcctrish! 🤣
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bookwormjillk I don‘t think he was wrong though about the rabbits? Oh well. 1w
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk definitely not wrong! 1w
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dabbe I worry about Maggie. She ignores the rabbits and lets them starve to death and takes out her aggressions by stabbing a doll voodoo-style while in the attic. This can not bode well for her psyche. And Tom loving-hating her within minutes. Granted, what she did to the rabbits was awful, but still. 1w
Bklover @Bookwormjillk @dabbe You‘re right about the rabbits. I‘m even mad at her for that! But I hate all of this “I won‘t love you anymore”. Even mom says it. Anyway. I just wanted to mention the last sentence of the chapter is gorgeous! It‘s the narrator speaking about childhood memories. 1w
BarkingMadRead @Bklover the writing is just beautiful! 1w
dabbe @Bklover 🤩😍🤗 1w
Morr_Books I may have an unpopular view, but I'm kinda on team Tom... for this chapter. 1w
ElizaMarie AND the mom quickly again goes to Maggie Drowned! What is with the drowning, maybe her momma lost her sister to drowning. Or do people just up and drown all the time? Is drowning the new boogieman? 7d
BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie I really hope we get some clarity on this, I need me a good backstory! 7d
mcctrish @Morr_Books I‘m team Tom too! He asked 2 people to check on his rabbits and they both let him down 👎🏻👎🏻 and he‘s not allowed to be upset ( mom is a bit theatrical with the drowning ) 7d
Clare-Dragonfly @ElizaMarie I think it‘s just because they live close to a river, but maybe there is something… 6d
ElizaMarie @Clare-Dragonfly Oo that makes more sense than it being something more nefarious. 6d
Leftcoastzen Why doesn‘t mom just say stay away from the river ! If my mom said stay away from the river , she would have told me why , and I would have stayed away from the river ! 😁 6d
Leftcoastzen I was miffed everyone let Tom down as well , it was a simple ask , Maggie is young but should have been able to look after a couple of rabbits. The parents don‘t look after her , I know people had plenty of work in those days. 6d
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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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Clare-Dragonfly Why was this so fun and SO GROSS at the same time? I nominate we change his name from #countporkchop to #countcreepula 3w
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mcctrish I laughed out loud twice during #countporkchop ‘s side of the story with his insertions about how awesome he is 🤣🤣 but cringed at how much he looovvvveeddd Marian ( but it saved her so yay Marian) every time someone describes him I hear in the back of my mind “how fat was he?” like part of a running joke 3w
Bookwormjillk Honestly I would read a whole book told from the POV of Uncle and Count. They‘re awful but so funny. And he wasn‘t wrong about Marian. 3w
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly for real! I laughed the whole time. @mcctrish I could only use drawings of him, the actors they used were never fat enough 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
Bklover The illustration is perfect!😂😂 3w
BarbaraJean @Bklover The illustration is absolutely perfect, in no small part because at first I interpreted the right hand as a foot and his belly as the leg attached to that “foot,“ and the ridiculousness of that pose + the ridiculousness of seeing my error had me cackling 😂 😂 Also: does he have smoke coming out of his ear?!? What is happening?! 3w
BarkingMadRead @BarbaraJean omg I never noticed that smoke, wtf?!? 3w
ElizaMarie @BarbaraJean The SMOKE!!! Ha maybe its a “he is full of hot air“ type of reference. 3w
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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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Ruthiella I feel like Percy got off too easily. A terrible death, yes. But where‘s the justice? 1mo
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mcctrish This was wild and I am still not convinced #percypig died. I‘m with @Ruthiella too easy #whatawickedweb 1mo
BarbaraJean @Ruthiella I felt the same. I need to see vindication! @mcctrish Could Percy have a doppelganger as well? 😂 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly I was right! 🙌🏻 Though what Walt discovers seems to prove above all that #percypig‘s so-called parents weren‘t married. So why does Mrs. Clements think Sir Felix was married? There are more mysteries to unravel. I also disagree with him: I think #percypig is just the kind of idiot to set the fire on purpose. The Count would have had a better plan, but obviously #percypig didn‘t want #countporkchop to know his Secret. 1mo
Leftcoastzen I‘m thinking more mysteries to come ! I knew when that notation seemed wedged in , no marriage, but so many layers with this story ! Yeah , I could imagine #percypig could have set fire on purpose, not knowing he was trapped. 1mo
Bookwormjillk I was a little disappointed in the secret to be honest, but am now thinking either Count set the fire or Percy escaped. 4w
ElizaMarie Because the other dude has gotten confused and thought Walt was Percy —- it makes me think Percy is alive. And/Or he might have tries to catch Walt in the fire and kill him instead? #SomethingIsOff #IDontTrustThis 4w
BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie I wondered the same, you kind of need someone who knows the man to ID him 🙄 4w
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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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Ruthiella Even though I have read this before, I don‘t remember Percy‘s secret. I‘m on tenterhooks! 🫣 1mo
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BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella it better be good! 1mo
Bookwormjillk Great pic. Also Laura calling out the fact that Walt and Marian make a better couple. Even she knows. Seems cruel to make her think she's making money with those drawings though. 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I feel like this could bite them in the butt 1mo
mcctrish Everyone knows Walt and Marian belong together! 🤣if only she wasn‘t so ugly ☹️ The #manofaction really is an evil mastermind, Marian and Laura know #countporkchop needs to be stopped 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly I am growing stronger in my belief that #percypig isn‘t really who he says he is! If he was born abroad it would be pretty easy to fake—either he switched places with the real Glyde child, or there was no real one, or he‘s illegitimate and just pretended to be legit when he came back. But how does Mrs. Catherick know his secret? And who is Anne‘s father? And could Mrs. Catherick not really be her mother? So many mysteries! 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk Yeah, I really don‘t like that they‘re lying to her about that ☹️ You‘d think they could have come up with some real work for her to do. 1mo
ElizaMarie Hmm.. I am confused about the ages here. Is Anne young and #PercyPig old enough to be her father? What if #CountPorkChop is the daddy? No, that wouldn't be it. Maybe the who #WhoIStheDaddy is a #RedHerring. This is 1/2 Telenovela 1/2 Jerry Springer 1/2 Maury (ha!) - You are NOT the father! 1mo
Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead Maybe they are the perfect Victoria thruple. 😱😂 (edited) 1mo
Leftcoastzen Interesting reading but I need to find out the secret! 1mo
Ruthiella @ElizaMarie I think Percy is at least 15 years older than Ann or Laura. So he could be the father. But as Walt surmises, that seems unlikely based on his and Mrs. Catherick‘s behavior. 1mo
BarbaraJean @Ruthiella Me too!! The only parts I remember vividly from my first reading are Walt‘s exclamation of “the lady is ugly!” and Dear Uncle‘s parentheticals. I do NOT remember The Secret that is so central to the plot… 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1mo
Ruthiella @BarbaraJean What I remembered was the barest outline of the plot and the charming but dangerous Count Fosco. His was the only character name I remembered. 😂 1mo
BarbaraJean @Ruthiella The Count is pretty memorable! I never trusted #countporkchop on this reading, but I don't know if that's my memory or just that he's clearly dangerous from the beginning. When I correctly anticipate plot points, I'm never quite sure whether I'm picking up the clues Collins is giving us, or if I'm just remembering it from before and not realizing that I remember it. 😂 1mo
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BarkingMadRead @Marctgore I do believe you are in the wrong place 🤣 1mo
KAO @BarkingMadRead Nowhere is safe from these guys! 😂 1mo
mcctrish Apparently Marci Gore is new on IG too 🤷🏻‍♀️ I guess we should be thankful when the scammers are so obvious, not like #percypig and #countporkchop (edited) 1mo
BarkingMadRead @kao @mcctrish at least put some effort in there 🤣 1mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I‘m also the only actual person she‘s following, should I feel special? 1mo
mcctrish At least she‘s reading P & P - CoHo would be a serious red flag 1mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1mo
dabbe @mcctrish @BarkingMadRead @KAO ... Here's what @Marctgore wrote on @Crinoline_Laphroaig's post re: P&P:
“Hi there! Your book is incredibly fascinating and impressive; it is genuinely unique and captivating. I'd be delighted to offer some suggestions to boost its popularity and success...“

I. Kid. You. Not. Apparently he/she thinks P&P was not written by Austen. 😳🤣😳

Here's the link to the entire post: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2847420
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mcctrish @dabbe because they are reading p&p I wondered if they‘d find @Crinoline_Laphroaig but I didn‘t want to help them 😂 1mo
BarkingMadRead @dabbe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1mo
dabbe @mcctrish Good thinking! I just let the entire cat out of the bag! 🤩🤦🏼‍♀️🤣 1mo
dabbe @BarkingMadRead Now that I've just reread the comments to you and the #hashtagbrigade, I believe by they also thought you wrote THE WOMAN IN WHITE! 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
KAO 😂 4w
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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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mcctrish What would Kryle say if he read the letter ? (edited) 1mo
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mcctrish Also #unclenervous is the WORST 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
Bookwormjillk Am I the only one that thinks Walter and Marian would make a much better couple? 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally agree, they are much more suited to each other 1mo
Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk You are not the only one! 1mo
dabbe @mcctrish Such a narcissistic wimp! 1mo
dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly Good one! 🤩 1mo
dabbe @Bookwormjillk Nope. Laura just lies around, saying “Ah is me.“ She's the typical #damselindistress Marian is so much more interesting! 🤩 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk Oh, they would be! They work together really well. I suspect it is an Elinor Dashwood and Colonel Brandon type of situation… 1mo
mcctrish I ship Waltarian/Marialter completely @Bookwormjillk also @Clare-Dragonfly despite the menacing tone of the letter I did laugh out loud at #manofaction @dabbe I‘d lose my marbles too if no one believed me that I was me especially my stupid fucking uncle but I‘d burn his house to the ground cuz if I‘m dead who can make me pay #letsgohauntunclenervous 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly I thought the same thing 1mo
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish dead ladies can‘t do crimes 1mo
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk that might be a whole other book 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
dabbe @mcctrish I think if we ripped up his drawings/sketches or whatever-the-hell they are, he'd die instantly of an aneurysm. #unclenervousnelly 1mo
mcctrish @dabbe we ride at dawn 1mo
dabbe @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
BarbaraJean @Bookwormjillk You‘re not wrong about Marian, but according to Walter “the lady is ugly!” 🙄 1mo
BarbaraJean @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish @dabbe We have our fanfic title ready: “Dead Ladies Can‘t Do Crimes: We Ride at Dawn.” Who‘s gonna write it? I‘m first in line to read! 1mo
Leftcoastzen I‘m so mad at all of them ! #greedyPercy #ManofAction #unclenervousnelly 1mo
dabbe @BarbaraJean @Bookwormjillk OMG, this is #perfection! 🤩🤣🤩 I say @mcctrish can start it because she had the best line: “We ride at dawn.“ 🤩 1mo
dabbe @ElizaMarie 🤩🤣🤗 1mo
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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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Bookwormjillk Wait! What????? Was it Laura or was it the lady in white? This book is such a soap opera! 1mo
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mcctrish What. The. Hell. 1mo
Leftcoastzen Maybe one of those poisons that makes you seem dead but you are not ? I went through all the stages of grief. He would get the money but it probably be worth it to be rid of him . 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Leftcoastzen I wondered the same thing, I can‘t wait to see what happens next! 1mo
dabbe I recall #porkchop hinting to #percypig that he had a plan re: the likeness between Anne and Laura. This must be it. Anne's the one with the heart problem, so Anne's the one who died at #porkchop's place. Laura has to be the one alive and the one that Walter met in the cemetery with Marian. Now we need to fill in how she got there. @Bookwormjillk: #soapoperaindeed

I feel like I'm playing CLUE: Laura is in the library with the wrench .... 🤣
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dabbe Just read this from good ol' Wikipedia; it definitely confirms the soap-operaness of this novel! 🤩
“Collins's works were classified at the time as sensation novels, a genre that became the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time.“
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BarkingMadRead @dabbe for real! Total telenovella, this is CLUE, the movie 🤣 1mo
Bookwormjillk @dabbe ohhhh good theory. And the flowers did something right? Pork Chop did it in the bedroom with the bouquet. 1mo
dabbe @BarkingMadRead Circa 1860s. 🤩🤣🤩 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly Twin switch! I knew it!!!! @dabbe That‘s exactly how I think it went! (edited) 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly I love the inclusion of “the narrative of the tombstone.” So dramatic! So fitting for the way the novel is told! So unexpected! 1mo
Bookwormjillk @Clare-Dragonfly yes the tombstone part was A+ 1mo
KAO I did not see that coming!! (But in retrospect probably should have!) 1mo
julieclair I've never thought of flowers as a murder weapon, lol. (Except maybe when consumed as poison.) 💐☠️ 1mo
BarkingMadRead @julieclair when I think of flowers I think of Carol on the walking dead #lookattheflowers 1mo
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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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Ruthiella I love how rain causes such illnesses in Regency/Victorian novels (see also Sense & Sensibility). 💧💧🤒 1mo
mcctrish OMG the twists and the turns. Pork chop is a master manipulator #oceans11vibes Percy Pig is such a twat! Where the hell did typhus come from? I swear at this point I was thinking did the ‘private nurse‘ bring it? Or were they just one step away from typhus at this point in history despite being upper class and having household staff to clean up the lice, etc…? 1mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I was going to google it, but i was afraid to go down the rabbit hole 🤣 I am very suspicious of the whole thing though, like was it ever typhus? Did they pay that young doc to lie? So many questions! 1mo
Bookwormjillk This section was bananas. What do we read tomorrow? The rest of Epoch 2? 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk yes! It‘s only like 10 pages, how sweet is that?!? 1mo
mcctrish @BarkingMadRead I feel like this entire book is a lesson in gaslighting #idontknowwhichendisup #trustnoone 1mo
Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead very sweet! @mcctrish yes on the gaslighting. I feel like Pork Chop is playing chess and Percy is playing checkers but they‘re both very effective in their manipulations. 1mo
julieclair So much going on here!! I love it! But I‘m very afraid for Laura in London. 😬 1mo
Leftcoastzen Didn‘t they mention that #countporkchop knew about poisoning? Some of course kill you , but others can make you sick. Though lady gets wet , gets a chill, gets real sick is common in these novels 1mo
dabbe My lord, how women were at the mercy of men in this era. You're simply property, and that's it. Oh, and an apparent ATM for all of your debts. #percypig and #porkchop are beyond evil. So much melodrama! That's what Collins was known for, and he writes it well! What a soap opera this would be! 1mo
ElizaMarie Growing up we werw always warned not to go outside with our hair wet (Mexican superstition) — 1mo
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