Madame Bovary | 
so-soHad Victorian Book Club at the Upton House museum. The coordinator makes up such fun alliteration titles for our snacks! And very thoughtful questions to aid discussion.
I‘m not a fan of the book. Emma got on my nerves and made bad choices. I also learned not to solely use credit for purchases, so I won‘t go into debt.
Started this #audiobook today for #SHPL Victorian Book Club.
Super happy #SimonVance is narrating! It makes me feel like I‘m supporting him even as he‘s trying to rebuild after the California fires took his house.
He has an enormous practice; the authorities treat him with consideration, and public opinion protects him.
He has just received the cross of the Legion of Honour.
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so-soThis was an okay story. I had a bit of trouble understanding most of it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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pickLots of people in my book club struggled with this book but I loved it. It was a very immersive read for me and I appreciated what the author was doing with the story. I‘ll be thinking about these characters for awhile. 🌟
pickWhat a tragic yet captivating tale!
I added this book to my “To Read” shelf on Goodreads way back in March of 2015. Now 9 years later I finally read it and I‘m so glad I did.
There is nothing happy about this story, but it‘s beautiful and intriguing in its own way. Immediately upon starting, I was pulled right into the story.
Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/review-madame-bovary/
pickI recently saw the ballet Emma Bovary (divine!) and decided to re-read this as I last read it some 30 odd years ago.
There are many books about the repercussions of trying to shake off the unfair strict social strictures of a woman‘s lot in the 18th and 19th centuries. This book is not that. Emma Bovary is a selfish, nonsensical brat and I spent most of the book wanting to shake her.
Madame Bovary tells the bleak story of a marriage that ends in tragedy. Charles Bovary, a good-hearted but dull and unambitious doctor with a meagre practice, marries Emma, a beautiful farm girl raised in a convent.
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We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a 'new fellow,' not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.
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panThis is one that I just didn‘t “get.” I found it pretty boring. But at least I can say that I‘ve read it!
#bookspinbingo
This book is very strange.
It centers around a young woman who marries a doctor and becomes bored with her life.
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pick#ModernMrsDarcy book club flight pick for March 2023 #MMDBookClub
#StoryGraph: fiction classics emotional reflective sad
372 pages • first pub 1857
Emma Bovary, daughter of an uneducated farmer and wife of a dull doctor in northern France, harbors a passion for everything beyond her grasp—sophistication, romance, love, and deliverance from her banal provincial life.
In its day, Madame Bovary was condemned as an affront to public morals. Yikes!
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 ? 😍
pickA 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.
pickEmma. 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.
bailedI 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.
pickJanuary 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.
so-soBook #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
Book haul today, and I snagged a beautiful cloth bound illustrated folio edition of Madame Bovary! ❤️❤️ Being a book nerd is so much fun!! 😂
bailedOkay, 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
panIt‘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
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so-soLast week I finally finished this book. The plot and characters were really not my cup of tea, but the death scene of Emma was beautifully written. It's a very modern novel, mainly because of the dissatisfaction theme that could still be applied to our modern times. I think it would be an interesting book for a book club ;)
"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.
panI 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
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?
