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Look what arrived in the mail! #bookmail It‘s a beautiful edition with deckled edges, and a classic I have been meaning to read! Is this from you @Cathythoughts ? 😍

A tragic story I have read before. I really enjoyed this rereading after many decades. Perfect character development, descriptions of nature and all kinds of love and sorrow, reflected in nature… ‘ the cottages were smothered in flowers ‘ Exquisite writing 🤍 set in the 1800‘s. I want to time travel to this time.

Emma. Anna? Emma? Anna. French countryside? Russian countryside? Heroine wants the best that noble life can offer her. Anna has the money; Emma does not. Anna throws herself under a train (MAJOR spoiler alert, sorry). Emma poisons herself with arsenic. Both can't stand their husbands; both have affairs. I hated this book in high school but loved it the second time around. Maybe my tastes have expanded? I hope so.

I really enjoyed the first chunk of this, but the further I read, the more I despised the character and couldn‘t get myself to care what happened. I might try it again someday, sometimes timing is everything with books. 🤷‍♀️
This was one of my April #Roll100 picks.

This weeks #WeeklyForecast

Have a look over the second half of You Made A Fool , for the camp ⛺️.
Continue my reread of The Promice… really enjoying this.
I picked up Nonfiction this week because there‘s talk it might be on the Booker longlist and also is praised by Rachel Cusk and Sarah Waters ♥️
I may have read Madame Bovary years ago 🤔. Anyway, it all feels new and very enjoyable, a feast.

Happy reading everyone 😘
👋🏻 hi Cindy 😘

My fiancé got me this gorgeous copy of Madame Bovary ? and it came with a matching notebook.

Currently reading.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#Ithadtobeyou

24. Betrayal

January reads: I have to pick Madame Bovary with Vilette a close second. Perdido Street Station and The Red Line were good for what they were trying to do. Portrait of the Artist, If on a Winter‘s Night and Snow Crash didn‘t hit the mark for me.

Book #2 of the year: “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert is certainly verbose. I probably would have enjoyed it more if he‘d been a little less florid. It was, like many classics, fine but not extraordinary.

“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”

Remembering Gustave Flaubert on his birthday.

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it. Some will be old, some will be new - don't judge me, I have a lot of books.

Day 156th

Join the fun if you want!

#tbrpile

The type of prose that I had to slowly read & reread to understand what the hell the plot was. Could read multiple chapters & not be able to describe at all what I had just read. I respect that it's a highly regarded classic...that's why I read it...but damn...

This made me LOL 😂 I love how witty (and sometimes mad!) the writing of this darling sitcom

7/100 What a sad, sad story. 5/5

Book haul today, and I snagged a beautiful cloth bound illustrated folio edition of Madame Bovary! ❤️❤️ Being a book nerd is so much fun!! 😂

Okay, I just can‘t get into this right now, so I‘m bailing. It may be me and not the book! I do love classics so perhaps sometime later I will try the audio version.

#bookspinbingo

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

#bookshelfbook2021 FRANCE

It‘s sad when you can figure out how this‘ll end because it was apparently the only logical conclusion to a woman committing adultery back in the day. It makes me so angry, because it‘s not the only book that does this. Hated it. All characters EXCEPT Dr. Bovary are unlikeable. Just in general, ugh.

⭐️ to the book
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to Simon Vance for reading it, because he‘s the only thing that kept me going.

I didn‘t know I could let audiobooks pile up, but thanks to Audible, I totally can (and did). As I finish one, I‘m starting another... and this time, I needed some Simon Vance in my life. Love his voice. ❤️

Doesn't she LOOK like someone who has mistaken temptation for opportunity? Been years since I read it, but I think Madame Bovary fits this #litfortunecookie.

Fun idea @KVanRead! Thanks for the tag @mklong
Want to play? @MoonWitch94 @GingerAntics @Graywacke @mollyrotondo

#3books #iloved

"Have you ever had the experience of finding in a book some vague idea that's already occurred to you, some obscure image that comes back to you from the depths of your mind, or a perfect expression of your most subtle feelings?"
"Yes, that's happened to me," she replied.

I tried to read this in college and didn't finish. My husband and I listened to the audiobook together this spring in anticipation of seeing a production of Adrienne Kennedy's play. This novel was just as tedious the second time around. I rarely DNF books, and this almost got me there twice. Flaubert is so long winded about nothing in particular, and all the characters are miserable.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Book 7 of the Popsugar Reading Challenge (a book with a pink cover)

We had to read this book for my French lit class in high school, but I was more interested by YA dystopian books as a teen so I had just skimmed through it and don‘t remember much about it.
It was convenient to find a free version on the apple bookstore with a pink cover!
And naturally, I‘ll have to read it in French to preserve authenticity.
#popsugarreadingchallenge

#discontent #QuotsyJan20
@TK-421

Day 7: #discontent #quotsyjan20

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes.

This book! I'm so split on what I think.
See my full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2959628531

Meh! I typically love classics but not this one! What a vapid twit! No depth whatsoever, selfish with a head full of air.
Oh yes, writing was nice.

#7days7covers #covercrush pick a book a day and post the cover no explanation. Tag a kitten each day. Thanks for the tag @merelybookish @rubyslippersreads if you haven‘t been tagged yet - want to join in?

Emma is a very complex, tragic, and at times frustrating character but I‘m glad I finally read this classic of realism. I really enjoyed the translation.

#wondrousWednesday 1. The tagged book 2. A Discovery of Witches ( the whole trilogy) 3. It‘s too massive to count 4. Just posted a review of Hitching A Ride With Buddha ( so-so) . Tagging @rabbitprincess @Loric @LauraBeth if it‘s not too late in the day. Thanks @Eggs for the tag

⭐️⭐️: This book!! While it may have been groundbreaking in its time, it has not held up well. What was the point?

“L‘amore, pensava, doveva sopravvenire all‘improvviso, con gran lampi e folgorazioni: -uragano dei cieli che cade sulla vita, la sconvolge, strappa via le volontà come foglie e trascina nell‘abisso l‘intiero cuore. Non sapeva che, sulle terrazze delle case, la pioggia forma dei laghi allorché le grondaie sono ostruite, e sarebbe rimasta cosí, in piena sicurezza, quando ad un tratto scoperse una crepa nel muro.”

Emma. Born with wild longings. Bored with the provincial life when she married the good (dull) country doctor, she pursues scandalous affairs. Wish I could tell poor Charles Bovary #dontmarryher but too late, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

#ayupaugust

(Still from the 1991 movie adaptation starring Isabelle Huppert as Emma Bovary)

I have such a blind spot when it comes to trench literature so I‘m really glad I fitted this one in! It was amazing! I wasn‘t prepared for how psychologically real Emma was, I felt like I knew her more than I‘ve pretty much ever known a fictional character. Such beautiful language, and very well read. This is like the absolute best of C19 fiction up there with the Brontes and the best Hardy

Some classic literature from #France for Bastille Day. And I think Emma Bovary qualifies as a #Lovefool.
#LetsTravelJuly #LilithJuly

Emma Bovary had a great desire for a more sophisticated and passionate life, often falling into boredom. She was unsatisfied with her dull marriage and life in the country. She was just waiting and hoping something exciting to happen to her and save her from her mundane life.

#MayMovieMagic #SaveMe

I decided just to read ahead and finish my Serial read for this month today... mainly because I wanted it to be over.

Really excellent writing, I can appreciate the commentary on provincial life in France at this time, and I can absolutely see why it was so scandalous at the time it was first published.

Even so, I was mostly bored or irritated with Emma and her complete disregard for everything but her own desires. 🤷🏻‍♀️

⭐️⭐️1/2

#1001books

#QuotsyMar19 Day 7: A #book is my most favourite thing ever.