The Black Tulip | 
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pickI'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. I had no idea that tulips were a big deal in the Netherlands. I was amazed at the obsession of the main character. It was a good story, but it did lose me at parts. 3.5 ⭐️
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pickThis book didn't have a cover so this is a photo I took of tulips the last (only) time I was in the Netherlands.
This book is an exciting adventure about the quest to find/create a black tulip. It's typical Dumas. It's a little over the top and you sort of think all the way through that the hero will die and the villain will succeed with his evil plan.
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Day 25 #flowers #CuriousCovers
I thought I would have read many books with covers featuring flowers. Seems not. But I did find this one.
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1) The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas :)
2) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Also, I am not fond of Jane Austen books :)
3) Maybe The Book Thief by Markus Zusak or All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
1- Coming back home to see that my friend cleaned my car while I was gone.
2- The Inferno from The Divine Comedy.
3- I don't do basketball, but Go Brew Crew 💙💛💙💛
4- I really liked The Black Tulip for some oddball reason.
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Well I'm out. I'll put The Black Tulip on my TBR again and read it from start to finish soon.
Good luck to everyone still going!
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I'm very excited about this. 12 hours to go, and this is about 7 hours long. I already know what I'll read after
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Two beautiful covers and two stories where flowers are a metaphor for something much darker. Both are quite good. Flowers make me happy. I buy myself flowers just because I want to. #happinessisresistance #flowers
pickWhile it does lack the grand scope of Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo, or even The Last Cavalier, The Black Tulip is classic Dumas: by turns sweepingly romantic and utterly ridiculous. A good pick for lovers of adventure stories that don't take months to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
God love Dumas and his ridiculous chapter titles. #Dumas #AlexandreDumas #Frenchlit
Found the perfect cozy read for the last days of the year. #Dumas #classics #Frenchlit
pickThis is not a fast paced story, and on the surface it seems rather lame with its steady and slow pace filled with stupid characters and good characters and a plot centering around a black tulip. Amazingly, it all flowed together and captured my attention in a way that I cannot quite put into words. Dumas' storytelling is a treasure that gives me great reading satisfaction. {I finished reading this book on July 3, 2016 ~ rating 4/5 stars}
I'm reading too many books at the moment. Luckily, I can read at work.
