The Count of Monte Cristo | 
1. It's been my 'codename' since using it at Girl Scout camp.
2. Play solitaire
3. The last audio book ...I'm currently listening to The Count of Monte Cristo and The House in the Cerulean Sea which I had to get in Hoopla on audio because my ebook on Libby couldn't be renewed.
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pickIt is amazing how one can read a book of 1105 pages and still feel melancholy that there is no more left to read. Dumas does well to state “Fac et spera“ in his closing sentence, but that is best understood when weighed in the balance with Ecclesiastes.
Dumas is a definite favorite. I have never been disappointed with his work.
Yesterday my friends and i went to Detroit and visited the John K. King Rare & Used bookstore, and this was my haul. I took a lot of photos... wish I could share them here. It's the largest bookstore in Michigan and second largest in the country
1. Les Miserables and The Count of Monte Cristo.
2. Running with Scissors
3. I can't remember.
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pickI truly enjoyed my time with the Count of Monte Cristo/Edmond Dantes. I anxiously awaited the famous prison break, which was everything I hoped for. There are so many characters, at times it felt like I was reading several different stories. The book pretty much covers Dantes‘ entire life, yet at the end I wanted there to be more. I liked the ending, and yet, I feel like there is more story to be told.
Full review at https://abookandadog.com
Hello all… Sorry I‘m running so late with my reads from March. I did not complete any of my #Roll100 for March, but I added them to my April lineup. I completed my #DoubleBookSpin for #BookSpinBingo & my #BookSpin will be read in April as well. I know it wasn‘t the best month for reading because I got sick with pneumonia, but I felt like I did OK overall. I also had a little Ruby Dixon marathon, which was fun.
pickThis was an excellent read. It took me a while to finish reading it, but it was worth it. It was so exciting and the ending was truly great. I‘m so glad that I finally got to read it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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This was an excellent read. It took me a while to finish reading it, but it was worth it. It was so exciting and the ending was truly great. I‘m so glad that I finally got to read it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I did it!🎉 It only took 10 months 😅. The beginning was great, it drug in the middle, but the ending wrapped it all up so well! I don't know if I can enjoy the movie anymore now that I know the true ending. My advice to others- keep a character list handy at all times!
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The Count of Monte Cristo is the story of betrayal, love, and redemption. The story follows Edmund Dantes through imprisonment, freedom, and revenge spanning nearly his entire life. After meeting Abbe Faria, the priest, while imprisoned, Dantes learns the location of the treasure of Monte Cristo.
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On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.
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pickYou‘d think since it took me 4+ months to read, this wasn‘t one I was too keen on but I really enjoyed it. I found the audio needed a lot of concentration, though so it wasn‘t what I turned on most days. I wish I had made a point to go for a walk for an hour every days to stay focused on it but maybe next time!
Thank you to @AllDebooks for motivating me to finally pick this up!
pickI know this is going to sound weird, but Edmond Dantes reminds me a lot of the Cat in the Hat, balancing stuff and saying "but that is not ALL I can do!"; mixed with Friar Lawrence from Romeo and Juliet and that man your parents warned you about that was going to give you drugs for free; all sprinkled with the biggest flair for drama that you can imagine...and honestly, if that doesn't sell this book to you I don't know what more do you want
pickA plot of revenge, and a little bit more. This is truly a wonderful classic that, while wordy and descriptive, is touching. How someone who has been wronged can fight for the rights of others and yet also find peace from their past. It‘s a wonderful book of coming to tranquility and acceptance of life‘s challenges and finding joy through difficulties.
Moral wounds have thus peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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FINISHED COUNT!
Started and finished both Hide and Seek & Ark
Continued A History of Treason
Bailed on Restoration
Started Get a Life, Chloe Brown & The King's General
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Challenges:
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#threebooksdifferentcenturybookthree #aroundtheyearin52weeks
#wronglyincarceratedmc #booked2023
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FINISH THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO!!!
Continue History of Treason & Restoration
Start Hide and Seek
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It is a great story worth perseverance as to its length. I enjoyed this more the first time I read it. As a more experienced reader, I can see it would safely withstand a heavy edit.
Joining in with the bingo card for July as I need to catch up on #roll100, #bookspin, #doublespin and #tbrtarot.
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pickFan-freaking-tastic!! The quintessential action/adventure novel. Reminds me of the grandfather‘s pitch for the book The Princess Bride, “Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, chases, escapes, true love, miracles.” It has everything and keeps you on the edge of your seat. It‘s far-ranging in scope and has a vast array of characters, but everything dovetails beautifully at the end.
My 17-yo son is following in his mom‘s footsteps—stalking bookstores while on vacation in another country! While in Bergen, Norway he bought this gorgeous edition of this chunkster. Of course, it‘ll be heavy as heck to bring home but he‘ll manage. He‘s a strong kid.
He‘s the one who got me interested in the book last year and it promptly became a favorite. Love this kid!!
#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
Continued The Count of Monte Cristo
Finished The Road to Jonestown
Started and finished The Bandit Queens
pickA sweeping saga. A little slow to start but quite intense in the end.
pickSuper Chunkster complete!! 🎉
I can see why this classic is so well-loved: it‘s fascinating, engaging, and meticulously planned out. To be honest, I don‘t think I liked any of the characters, but it was so satisfying to see all the threads come together in the end. For so many characters, there was a much harsher fate than I expected (of course—book vs. movie!), and a stronger, more nuanced meditation on revenge. #ChunksterChallenge2023
Okay, maybe not the cheeriest of #islandvibe books, but the song really works for it 👹
#TitlesandTunes @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB
pickI absolutely loved this book. I'm so glad that I finally read it. Edward Dantes is wrongfully thrown in prison, but after almost 2 decades, he escapes. He then finds hidden treasure and then goes after the people who wronged him 🖤
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#bookreport @Cinfhen
Continued Count and The Road to Jonestown.
Started A History of Treason.
Finished Making the Monster.
#bookreport @Cinfhen
Continued Count (at 75% though, so nearly there lol)
Finished Dubliners & Fantastic Mr Fox
Bailed on The Splendid and the Vile
Started The Road to Jonestown & Making the Monster
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3/4 of the way there!
“O great city! In your heaving breast I found what I was looking for; like a patient miner, I churned your entrails to expel the evil from them.”
Well. Those are some mixed metaphors. (Also, that‘s certainly not any kind of miner I‘d like to be.)
Well I know roll #2 WON'T be completed in June, as I've been doing it on Serial Reader since December 😂
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Always good to come home to #bookmail after a long stressy day. Even better when the books are free!
These are my ‘prizes‘ for achieving Platinum status on Penguin Bookmarks. 🐧❤️
#bookreport @Cinfhen
Continued Count & Dubliners
Finished In the Shadow of Vesuvius
Started The Splendid and the Vile and Crusoe
#Rereadtheclassics #Buddyread
How are you getting on? @BookwormAHN @jenniferw88 @CrowCAH @BarbaraJean
I'm only a third of the way in, despite audio and ebook versions on the go!! I'm enjoying all the intrigue, tho. I'll be extending my schedule into May, possibly June. I've still got a long way to go.
***NB - I will keep the schedule the same for the other books***
Up next Walden, tagged in comments 😊
#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
Trying to have one book in a different format, so:
❣ Continue Count on Serial Reader
❣ In the Shadow of Vesuvius is Kindle
❣ A History of Treason is my audio
❣ and I've got to decide on my physical, but I'm thinking The Giver.
#bookreport @Cinfhen
Continued Count!
Finished Phoenix & A Day of Fallen Night!
I don't know what I was expecting the Count of Monte Cristo was going to be like, but it wasn't this 😂
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Continue Count! (I bet you're fed up seeing this on my forecast lol!)
Try to finish at least one of the other two!
#EasterOMC
Here's a pic of my #shelflife from my bedroom. It has all my tbr and new books.
I do have a room full of books in the office. But I can't show that as it's been commandeered by the teen studying gcses. And it has been trashed!!! 🫣 Maybe I'll show it another time when it's my den again 😅😍
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#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
Continue all three!
