“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Excited to start this as my first 2024 read!
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My favorite book of October 2023 was The Scarlet Letter, which I read for #RandomClassics with @TheAromaofBooks
#12Booksof2023 @Andrew65
Sat out on the porch with a blanket and finished this! #scarathlon #teamcryptkeepers #falling4booksbingo #reread
Today‘s chapter of the Scarlet Letter will be greatly improved by a door dash order sent to my hotel from the hubs 🤣 he sent me to the outskirts of Salem for a cupcake at a bakery that had no cupcakes 🤣 he felt bad, so he sent me these. Now, so do I choose one to eat today, or do I eat from both 🤷🏻♀️
pickMany people said to me that this is a excellent book but I did not believe them. Anyway I read it and I was suprised that this is really a very good and easily readable novel. It reminded me to Witch Child by Celia Rees maybe because it is in the same time period.
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1. Due to a weird quirk in the curriculum, I had to read the tagged book two years in a row. Once was more than enough.
2. Sorry, Outlander people, but I‘m done. I liked the first book, but the second one was just. Too. Much. Don‘t @ me.
#ihavequestions
A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
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bailedOne that I‘ve been meaning to read for years, and I HATED IT. I tried to restart it twice. I tried physical and audio.
My first DNF of the year, and I‘m okay with that. At least it‘s off the list. 😳 #Jumpstart2023
bailedOne that I‘ve been meaning to read for years, and I HATED IT. I tried to restart it twice. I tried physical and audio.
My first DNF of the year, and I‘m okay with that. At least it‘s off the list. 😳 #jumpstart2023
so-soThe latest book in my Classics Challenge. Just an ok read. I find the overt moral judgement and the tendency to “tell rather than show“ detractions. The book's clunky sentences and remote setting / circumstances continue to make it the bane of Lit classes to this day. But it's a quick read that manages to still make “Best Novel“ lists. May be worth it for its dry Pilgrim takedown, but I'm not a big fan.
Full review: https://bit.ly/rvw-RedA
Happy Birthday to Nathaniel Hawthorne 🎂🧁🪅🎊🎉🎈🎁
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pick3.5 ⭐️s
My rating for this one is a bit odd. 😅 Normally I save picks for 4 ⭐️s and up, but it didn‘t feel right to give this another full star; it‘s better than a so-so.
I‘m very glad I read this. The film romanticized everything a bit too much for what truly is a tragic (albeit beautiful) story about revenge, redemption and being true to oneself despite societal pressures. I need to check out Easy A now to compare.
My first #Roll100 of February!
“On a field, sable, the letter A, Gules”
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so-soI finally got around to reading this. I appreciate Hawthorne‘s prolific use of symbolism, but that renders this story a bit of a parable like Young Goodman Brown. I can‘t quite say I didn‘t enjoy some of the tension in anticipation of the climax, but overall, I feel like it‘s not so much a story as a philosophical musing on human emotion, morals and whether being outcast is necessarily punishment if you convince yourself it isn‘t. Meh.
I love Hawthorne because of the New England imagery it conjures in my mind.
#Movie2BookRecs #emmastone 4. The Scarlet Letter was my favorite mandatory literature read in high school and made me obsessed with Nathanial Hawthorne for a long time. Easy A is such a fun movie spin on the book.
Day 5 #AwesomeApril #Readathon
Got almost three hours of reading done. Read The Scarlet Letter on and off during the day. I‘m almost finished this one.
pickI actually loved this book. Probably one of my favorites we read in school.
so-soHester Prynne conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Branded as an adulterer, she must wear the red letter A upon her garments. This was one of the first mass-produced books in America - it was popular when first published and is considered a classic work of American literature. It can be a bit dry in the middle with excess details that seem superfluous. #bookspinbingo
#FridayFunwith451 @451Degrees Scarlet Letter was above me when I was in high school. When I reread it as an adult I knew why. LOL I had lived an overly sheltered life or I just didn‘t know about adult problems because I was clueless to adults having affairs. 🤦🏾♀️ That red letter traumatized me. LOL
A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
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Love these versions!!! Planning on ordering a few more!
Hester‘s #dalliance is just one of many in the literary world, but probably one of the best known, thanks to the big red A she‘s forced to wear by her Puritan society. Which begs the question, if today we had to wear our sins on our chests for everyone to see, would we behave differently?
#beautifulwords
In society, we tend to value the wrong things. People focus on material wealth or social reputation, rather than embracing the purity of the natural world.
Happy Birthday to Nathaniel Hawthorne 🎁🎂🎉🎈
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Good grief, y'all. There are many classics I love but Hawthorne is hard work! Generally, I read for pleasure and escape; I'm not sure I want to put this kind of effort into it. #ConsideringBailing
I hesitantly began reading this today at the request of a non litsy friend. Hesitantly because, while I haven't read it since HS, I distinctly remember not liking it. I only made it through the "custom house intro" today and it was an uphill job. Dude gave me a headache. I'm hoping now that I'm thru the into I'll like the body of the book more than my teenage self did. ?
pickI enjoyed this audiobook. Nathaniel Hawthorne has a beautiful way of being descriptive. I found myself feeling like I was with Hester and Pearl♡ Both of these characters are so lovable ❤ I found the book kind of slow up until the last hour or so but still enjoyed it. 😊 I must admit that I did listen to this book because of Easy A 😂❤
Make sure you take the time to enjoy the sunshine ☀️🧡 We are listening to The Scarlet Letter 🎧📖
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Obsessed with this podcast right now...
I‘ve started this on my Serial app. I‘m going to be home for a while. Our March Break trip to London 🏴 has been postponed until Christmas 🤞🏻and schools are closed until April 5 so we can get ahead of Covid 19. It might be too soon to say I‘ve been stockpiling books for just such an emergency my whole life, but it‘s true
I hated this story, had to read for high school. It made me very depressed
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panThis classic was my number 12 for the February #bookspin 📚Given to me by my aunt many years ago, I‘m glad I finally got around to it, if only to check it off my TBR and pass it on. Not my cup of tea.
so-soGoing into this book I was going to read it 5 stars, but as I kept reading it things bothered me as I was reading it.
The person who had this book before me they underlined Ivory sentence in every chapter of this book that annoy me very much because I find that disrespectful and not just to the author but to the publishers and how Hester kept poking fun at womens body's in the book I found very degrading to women and disrespectful.
“On a field, sable, the letter A, gules”
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The Scarlet Letter: a romance | 
