

I found this one excruciatingly slow and pleonastic.
I still appreciate the story and morals, but feel there's better adaptations out today.
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I found this one excruciatingly slow and pleonastic.
I still appreciate the story and morals, but feel there's better adaptations out today.
#Classic
#OffTheShelf2025 @Librariana
#LitsyAtoZ #S @Texreader
#Pantone2025 #Cocoa @Lauredhel
#FeelinTheLove
This classic book came immediately to mind for #IllicitLoveAffair probably because I was on a chick-flick binge this weekend & watched both these movies where it plays a role. (I love both these movies, don‘t love the book so much but I haven‘t read it since high school!) 😆
Maybe it's just because I'm older, and wiser or see red flags more clearly due to my varied reading genres but the complexity of this story and all the symbolism will stick with me way more now than it did at 16. I'm eager to jump into the new true crime title that spurred on my desire to reread The Scarlet Letter. Up next:
"The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne By Kate Winkler Dawson"
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I think I‘m in the minority of the #RandomClassic read of this, but I greatly enjoyed this. Granted, this is a reread (maybe my 3rd or 4th time), and I‘m enjoying Hawthorne‘s jabs at society with each reading. Parts are slow and meandering…typical writing style of the 19th century. But, I loved it. And, I love my 1980s Tor edition cover! 😂
I don't exactly mind if an author wants to teach me a lesson or point out problems in society, but I need an engaging story to back it up, and that's where Hawthorne was lacking for me. I just found this one to be SO boring and rather anticlimactic. I know others in our reading group like this one, but it just wasn't for me 😂
Any final thoughts for this #RandomClassic ? Did you all make it to the end?
(thru ch17) The story continues, albeit not quickly lol Have any of you studied/taught this book in school? What theme(s) do you usually draw from it in a classroom setting? I'm honestly struggling to figure out what point Hawthorne is trying to make. The story itself isn't exactly enthralling haha I don't hate it, but I also don't feel like much is happening. Thoughts??
#RandomClassics
(thru ch8) - How are you all enjoying this one? I'm honestly... kind of bored?? Hawthorne is kind of rambly without saying a great deal. I also feel like he's more interested in dunking on the Puritans than actually telling a story. It's not a bad story so far, but we're halfway through and it hasn't really grabbed me at all. Have the rest of you been enjoying it more? Any thoughts?
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Greetings, #RandomClassics friends! I know at least several of you have started this because you tagged me on the first. 😁 But how is everyone getting on? Have any of you read this one before? I have never read this book and honestly have only the vaguest idea of what the story is about, so I am going in almost completely blind.
Thru ch3 - Not much has happened so far, although we now have a mysterious man on the edge of the crowd to consider!⬇
Starting this one tonight for #RandomClassics @TheAromaofBooks
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Starting this for #RandomClassics tonight. This, my friends, is an ugly book over.
@TheAromaofBooks I overcommitted to too many buddy reads for September and I don‘t want to make the same mistake in October. So I‘ve decided to opt out #TheScarletLetter, although I‘d still like to remain on the tag list so I can read the snarky hashtags and find out what others think and feel about the story of Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl. #RandomClassics
October's #RandomClassics read will be The Scarlet Letter!! @BarkingMadRead and @CatLass007 I have you both down for this one - are you still interested? Anyone else who would like to is also welcome to join!! We read a chapter a day until the book is finished, and I post haphazard conversation posts whenever I have a minute or come across something so shocking I have to share 😂
Looking ahead, I'm still planning to start Don Quixote in November⬇
4✨ I got to the last two chapters and just couldn‘t wait to find out how it ended. While I did finish it off on my physical book. I wanted to support Serial Reader for allowing me a day by day small dose of a hard to read classic. This was the second time I tried to read this book and with Serial Reader it made it easier. The main lesson is it‘s better to be honest than hide from your guilt. It is a great story that I‘m so glad I finally got to!
Normally when I read a classic, even if I don't enjoy it, I can understand why it is considered a classic. This one I don't get unless you just look at it as a controversial topic of the time. So long winded and the characters have no emotion. Overall when I finished it there was nothing memorable that stuck out in my mind. This is a classic that was not for me.
I finished the book Hester last night and as part of the duet read I set up for myself I decided to re-read this one. Although not a “feel good” read it is still a really good story. This is one of my top 10 favorite classics.
I have so many new books, but I'm going for another reread- The Essex Serpent made me want to reread this- I just feel there are connections and parallels between these two novels.... plus they are both so gorgeously written ....
📖 1/24/22 || Classic | Stark | Puritan
I‘ve been meaning to read this for years and am glad to have finished it. ✅
Guilt free fiction reading today!! Woot! 🎉 This is one of my top 10 favorite novels. ❤️♥️
It‘s not entirely fun reading though since I‘m doing a social contract analysis for a class. So it‘s not leisurely reading, but I‘ll take it!
#NWC September Side Book - The Scarlet Letter
Here is a quiz to see which character you are from the book. Which one do you think you will get before you take it? Did you get who you thought?
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1️⃣ Eddard Stark
2️⃣ Hard to pick one. Night Film had a good ending.
3️⃣ I haven‘t read this since high school so I‘m doing a reread.
#ThoughtfulThursday
I ordered myself this cute plant and pot from a small independent flower shop yesterday and they personally delivered it today. It‘s was their last day open for awhile. I‘m glad I could support them a wee bit. I‘ve decided Monday‘s are officially Treat Myself days until this curve flattening works. The snow today didn‘t help matters. Flowers (and books) make everything better
Read this in high school my senior year. Pretty good.