Jude l'oscuro | 
“Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women. . . O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?” —Esdras
Finally starting this for #BookSpinBingo (last month and this month!) #Classic #CC50_part2 #TableRockMO
#BookSpinBingo Time! Jude is a #Classic on my #cc50 part2 list. I added this on a whim to my Sept list of 20 and now I “get” (have?) to read it!
pickThe turmoil and persistent lamentations in this book is unequivocal. “Because we are to menny.” That quote has been burned in my memory for years to come. This is my third Hardy book this year and again have not been disappointed. I wish I could say more but do not want to spoil the story.
Yesterday after work, I decided to explore my neighborhood and I found a Little Free Library that I didn't know about! I had a book to give away, so I swapped it for this gem. (I am such a sucker for the classics. 😊) It may sit on my TBR shelf for a while, but that's ok with me. 👍
pick365 pages. Tragic story about broken dreams. Jude wants to go to college, but college is for rich people only. He meets his sweetheart, and she appears to be cold-hearted bitch. He meets he love of his life, and society condemns them both for having "unlawful" relationship. The story takes place in 19th century but in many aspects, aren't we still facing the same issues?
#tomhardy #jude #judetheobscure
pickGah, this book! First of all it‘s a masterpiece, and for me a highly readable, beautifully written and engaging story. But it is also guttingly, heart-wrenchingly grim and be warned, contains one of the most horrifying, disturbing scenes in the history of literature. Jude the Obscene is a fair moniker not for the non-conformist ideas on women, sex, and marriage that got it banned but for that one brutal turn in the plot. Still an excellent...
I have been wanting to show off the cool end papers in this swingin‘ 1967 Modern Library edition and @LeahBergen @Leftcoastzen look at the #bookplate!
Also my new fall mug arrived just in time for another heatwave. Don‘t need a fall sweater, cuz I am a fall sweater 🥵🤣
#DogEaredBooks #vintagebookfind
Great #audiodogwalk today. Good book, great companion, and glorious smoke free weather!
#dogsoflitsy
My daughter's current 'favourite book'. She's 6! 🤣🤣🤣
#7days7books Day 2
I became a Thomas Hardy fan in High school. I think the first one I read was Tess of the D‘urbervilles, but Jude has stayed with me forever. I can never forget “Because we are too menny.” If you‘ve read it, you know what I mean.
pickI would never have read this book without this podcast. It was great! I really hope he does another one.
pickMan, this book!
Halfway through it I noticed that I knew that story and found out that I've watched the movie with my favorite doctor and Kate Winslet.
This beautiful edition is from a Brazilian book of the month club.
I thought #J titled books might be a bit harder to find for #30JuneBooks but I still found a dozen fairly quickly. Is that cause J titles are less rare than I guessed, or cause I have too many books? 🤔 gotta be the first one...
@howjessreads
pickBit of a downer, but asks some big questions on marriage, religion, and education.
pickAmazing writing, but what a terribly sad book! Just when you think it can‘t possibly get worse for Jude and Sue, it does.
For worst couple I nominate Jude Fawley and Arabella Donn #lovehate @ErinSueG @WhiskeyMistress
Just started this. He reads and comments on the book. Very funny!!!
My new job involves a long commute. Leisure time has been limited the past few months. One way to “read” is with this hilarious podcast. Give it a whirl: https://www.earwolf.com/show/obscure-with-michael-ian-black/
pickMy first Hardy, and I was pleasantly surprised by how readable I found the story. It was good to read in chunks, though, thanks to Serial Reader. That made the emotional anguish easier to handle.
A little from Jude the Obscure this morning. #obscure #QuotsySept18
@TK-421
pickWell, that was depressing.
Beautifully written, scathing commentary by the author on religion and marriage in Victorian England... hard to believe Hardy wrote something so forward-thinking in this time period, and easy to see why it was so badly received then. The novel feels unflinchingly honest, brutal, and sad. Poor Sue. Poor Jude.
If you like fun stories with happy endings, this is not the book you‘re looking for.
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#1001books
I started this fine Saturday with lofty goals:
-yard work
-housework
-prepare elaborate dinner for my kids
-finish The Bear and the Nightingale
It is now almost 10 pm, my yard and house are in the same condition, I‘m eating takeout Mongolian beef literally over the sink, and have not opened Bear.
I have read 22 (and counting) issues of Jude the Obscure though. 🤷🏻♀️
I‘m a #SerialReader failure. 😂
#booksandfood #deweyjuly #readathon
What do you get when you marry classic literature with one of my favorite comedians?? You get a new podcast called Obscure in which the somewhat equally obscure Michael Ian Black reads and comments on said book. It‘s probably a novel I would never have read otherwise, but if you add MIB to anything I‘m bound to give it a try. If nothing else, it should keep me company on my summer walks!
Michael Ian Black has a new podcast where he reads Hardy's Jude the Obscure and comments. I'm looking forward to listening on my walk with Peri today. He's my kind of humor.
#HeyJune | #HeyJude
Jude strives to lift himself out of the circumstances he is born into. Although he tries to “take a sad song and make it better,” ultimately he is fated to experience the worst tragedies in life with very few moments of redemption and happiness.
Full disclosure: I HATED this book when I read it in Victorian lit. It‘s a miserable story with little to redeem it in my mind. I was surprised I still even had the book.
#HeyJune #heyJude I just thought of one. Sounds like this song could accompany some of Hardy‘s novels ❤️
pickExcellent writing and subject matter that I'm sure was shocking to its original Victorian audience. It was good, but I could not stand neither Jude nor Sue. Especially Sue with her wishy-washy ways. #classics #serialreader
This passage struck me this morning. My son has autism, specifically Aspergers. This describes him perfectly, intellectually gifted with a college level vocabulary but socially immature.
Time for a classic! Haven‘t heard of this one and know nothing about it!! That could make for either a very interesting read or a very horrible read!!!
I don‘t know if this is definitely my oldest un-read book but it‘s one of the contenders for sure. I‘d enjoyed Tess of the d‘Urbervilles so when we had a cheap version of this at the store I worked at, I picked it up...in 2003. It has since moved with me 11 times and I still haven‘t read it. 2018 goal?
Hour 30 challenge of #24in48
And take a look at what I found inside this Modern Library edition: what a cool #BookPlate!! Now I‘m super curious about Mr. Goetzel and his (in my mind, anyway) fabulous library. Anyone else do this? What‘s the most interesting thing you‘ve found in a book?
First year participating in #LitsyAtoZ, only have #J left! Any recommendations?! The pups didn't like this one #dogatemyhomework
Thomas Hardy is one of my favorite authors so I'm familiar with the compounding sense of doom to be found in his novels. There are some other classics that I want to buy and read, but I won't give myself permission to purchase until I read this one. By the end of part I the protagonist has wished himself dead multiple times and attempted suicide once. The pig slaughtering scene was particularly gruesome. Only 300+ pages to go!
Today's train reading 😀 I' m reading the new Karin Slaughter - the kids are reading the other two!
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
Okay I know this is a minority viewpoint but I disliked this book very much. I would have quite happily flung it far away. But I wanted to complete a famous classic. Jude! Sue! Will you make a decision! Such a depressing tale.
#farflung #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading
"I'm an outsider to the end of my days!"
#judetheobscure is more depressing than I thought, but I still liked it very much ? #thomashardy
Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has will‘d, we die? #thomashardy
