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The Beautiful and Damned (Collins Classics)
The Beautiful and Damned (Collins Classics) | F. Scott Fitzgerald
From Collins Classics and the author of The Great Gatsby comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age
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lkg2324
The Beautiful and the Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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And down the hole I go…………

The_Book_Ninja 🙌🏼 9mo
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IuliaC
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Pickpick

“When a man speaks he's merely tradition. He has at best a few thousand years back of him. But woman, why, she is the miraculous mouthpiece of posterity.”

1920s' America vibes in this one and a lot of philosophy.
A young, rich and tormented couple leads a decadent and self-destroying life while awaiting a tremendous inheritance.

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MaCa
Beautiful and Damned | F Scott Fitzgerald
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Not the perfect gem of artistic integrity that Gatbsy is, but still great. follows the social and moral decline of 1910s WASPs Anthony and Gloria Patch. While awaiting an inheritance, they descend into addiction, debauchery, disinheritance, and relationship breakdown. The inheritance is restored at the close, but by then they are damaged A portrait of alcoholism and the idle waiting-to-be-rich and the connections between these phenomena

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.#Fitzgerald #bookworm #words #avidreader #booknerd #bookgeek #read

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peacelettersandlove
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“I don‘t understand why people think that every young man ought to go downtown and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work, certainly not altruistic work.”

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Leftcoastzen
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#authorBirthday I wanted to post this earlier on Saturday, had a day ! On this date in 1896😱
F.Scott Fitzgerald was born .

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MoonWitch94
The Beautiful and Damned | Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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June is upon us, nearly one week in. I‘m still so surprised we are in June already. 🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸

📖For my Witchy Littens, #LittleWitchBooks is a new independent publisher that focuses on Witch books for kids! Very cute offerings coming up. Follow them on Instagram or Facebook!

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TheKidUpstairs
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#OnThisDay in 1922, Charles Scribner's Sons published F. Scott Fitzgerald's sophomore effort The Beautiful and Damned. A review written by Zelda told readers to buy the book so she could purchase "The cutest cloth-of-gold dress." Later in life, Fitzgerald stated "I wish the Beautiful and Damned had been a maturely written book because it was all true. We ruined ourselves—I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other." #HistoryGetsLIT

Leftcoastzen Thanks for the post ,Scott & Zelda ,the ever interesting train wreck. 2y
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#curiouscovers
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
Day 30: Lovers
The Beautiful & the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald👨‍👩‍👧

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️📚🙌🏻 3y
Eggs Beautiful❣️📚🤗 3y
LeslieO Love this cover! 3y
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nentikez
The Beautiful and the Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This is one of those books I always meant to read but never got around to it, so it sat there on my shelf collecting dust. Finally picked it up today, and boy aren't I glad I did. 1/3 through and I'm already lost in the world of New York's café society.

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Liz_M
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KVanRead Beautiful 🤩 3y
youneverarrived I love these editions. 3y
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Leftcoastzen
The Beautiful and the Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Finally bought enough books to get enough points to get a free book from the Penguin/Random House Readers Rewards program !🤗I collect Fitzgerald, so my choice was this lovely edition.Brightened up a frustrating day.🍸

batsy Beautiful! 3y
Leftcoastzen @batsy and damned!😂Sorry , couldn‘t resist! 3y
batsy @Leftcoastzen 🤣 It had to be done 3y
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LeahBergen Ooo! Nice choice. 👍🏻 3y
Cathythoughts Lovely looking book. I‘ve never read this one 3y
Liz_M Coralie Bickford-Smith strikes again! 3y
Buechersuechtling I only know “The great Gatsby“ (which I loved when we read it in high school), but I feel I recently am seeing quite a lot of Fitzgerald-posts, so I think I need to read some more of his books, don‘t I❓🤔 3y
Leftcoastzen Starting Over , I got his 1st &2nd novels mixed up.This one is more how to drink yourself to death & squander you early success,sorta .His novels are always somewhat autobiographical, he does capture elements of the Jazz age in this novel.if you were going to try another one I feel this may be more representative (edited) 3y
Leftcoastzen @Liz_M she is a great designer! I have resisted till now.😀 3y
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anushareflects
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Mehso-so

I usually enjoy Fitzgerald‘s works but this book is a bit of a let-down. This is a story of two over indulged adults who live in the lap of luxury and party themselves into ruin. I detest the characters of Anthony and Gloria, and in a way Fitzgerald has done justice to their characters because they are meant to difficult protagonists. Overall, while the book portrayed the point it was meaning to, the story itself seemed unfulfilling.

LapReader It was based on his life wasn‘t it? 4y
anushareflects @LapReader In a large part it definitely seems auto biographical, but I‘ve often felt most of Fitzgerald‘s books end up being a reflection of his life 4y
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reading_rainbow
The Beautiful and Damned | Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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went thrifting today and found this one🍃🌸 pretty cover

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AlizaApp
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Mehso-so

I wanted to read a classic, and also felt that maybe the Jazz Age would be a bit escapist right now. But I found it difficult to feel invested in, and the hubris - a man with a small inheritance just flat-out refusing to get a job, because it would be déclassé - especially leading up to the Depression, I just couldn‘t deal.

catiewithac But isn‘t Fitzgerald‘s writing so beautiful? 4y
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Leftcoastzen
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📚The Beautiful and Damned
🖋Charles Bukowski
📽The Big Lebowski
🎸The Band
🎼Breakfast at Tiffany‘s-Deep Blue Something
#manicmonday #LetterB @JoScho

vivastory Great choices! 4y
JoScho Man that song takes me back! Thanks for playing 😊💜 4y
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MayaB1226
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#inktober day 1: An illustration of a 1922 writing by Zelda Fitzgerald humorously reviewing her husband‘s novel The Beautiful and Damned in the New York Tribune. Her review is tinged with self-consciousness as she mockingly portrays herself as Scott‘s selfish wife, then discusses & defends the character of Gloria, an analogue of Zelda herself—right down to the bits that Scott stole from her diaries. #fscottfitzgerald #zeldafitzgerald #comic #art

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emilycoc
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Mehso-so

Hm. This was a re-read, so I certainly went in with an expectation. I wanted to enjoy this much more than I did, and like I said in my last post, I just don‘t think I liked Anthony and Gloria - if anyone else has read this, I think we can all agree you‘re not supposed to like them lol - but that may have distracted me from the other aspects of the book. I won‘t give it a “pan” at this point though.

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RavenLovelyReads
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Got a new Canterbury Classic! Littens- what books are you collecting? #catsoflitsy

BooknerdsLife awww I love the Canterbury Classics too 💖😍 Think I have 2 editions of this book but haven‘t seen this one before! 😱 Its Gorgeous! 5y
Slajaunie Alice in Wonderland, my granddaughter is named for the character as my daughter is a huge literary fan as well. Raise them right!! 😁 5y
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Creadnorthey
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This is Trainspotting before it was even in Welsh‘s mind- hell years before he was born! The downward spiral of our not so likable protagonist and his equally unlikable vain paramour just never lets up- leaving an ending that is hardly satisfactory even with the reversal of fortunes. Some visceral stuff even now years later- one sees why Fitzgerald is a genius.

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emilycoc
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I‘ve been radio silent for a while but wanted to post that I bought two new reads today! Hopefully this will be enough motivation to finish The Beautiful and Damned - I‘m struggling to get into it (even though I‘m on page 149). I think I just don‘t find Anthony and Gloria very compelling. Will keep you posted!

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Creadnorthey
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I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue."

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erzascarletbookgasm
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In the beginning, Anthony and Gloria have beauty and privilege, and awaiting their potential inheritance. They party with the elite crowd, overspent, and with no determination, no effort to work hard, theirs is a wasted life.

#AMonthOfSongs
#Consequences
#Beautiful

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful cover 🖤🖤 5y
Cathythoughts What a cover 👏🏻✨👏🏻 5y
Mdargusch That cover! 😍😍😍 I read this so long ago but I remember I just felt sad about their wasted life. 5y
youneverarrived What a gorgeous edition ♥️ 5y
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erzascarletbookgasm
The Beautiful and Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In the beginning, Anthony and Gloria have beauty and privilege, and awaiting their potential inheritance. They party with the elite crowd, overspent, and with no determination, no effort to work hard, theirs is a wasted life.

#AMonthOfSongs
#Consequences
#Beautiful

OriginalCyn620 👌🏻📚🎶 5y
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Reviewsbylola
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I‘m sorry to say I have yet to read this one. I definitely plan to . . . someday.

#youngandbeautiful #maymoviemagic

CoffeeNBooks I have this on my bookshelf, but haven't read it yet. 5y
Leftcoastzen Love it 5y
Cinfhen Read it for bookclub this year...it wasn‘t terrible. Sad because this was probably autobiographical 5y
RohitSawant On my TBR as well. 5y
gradcat Like @Cinfhen I, too, found this one very sad, but I really liked it. 5y
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Creadnorthey
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Anthony was glad he wasn't going to work on his book. The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed—the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires

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emilycoc
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This is my next read, and another re-read. I LOVE The Great Gatsby and was so excited to read this... and was disappointed. I am finding that with a lot of my re-reads, when I was originally disappointed, I now enjoy the book years later. Curious to see if that will happen again.

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Branwen
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I am now officially the proud owner of a first edition copy of Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned! It is so beautiful! 😍😍😍

gradcat Wow! Thanks fantastic! 5y
JennyM Oh.my.stars!!! 5y
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Naj Wow!! 😍😍😍 5y
Leftcoastzen cool ! Dust jacket? 5y
Branwen @gradcat @JennyM @Bibliogeekery @Naj Thanks guys! 🤗💕 @Leftcoastzen Sadly, no. 😔 But otherwise it's in pretty good shape! 😀 5y
Leftcoastzen They are sooo expensive with dust jacket.It always feels great to have an old first edition.👍 5y
Branwen @Leftcoastzen Yessssss I totally agree! I almost cried when I found it, as corny as that sounds! 😁 But Fitzgerald is one of my favorite authors (along with Woolf and Hemingway) so it just felt so incredible to come across it! 😍💕📚 5y
Leftcoastzen Well, we have that in common, I love those authors as well 5y
Branwen @Leftcoastzen Squeeee! How awesome! 🤗💕📚 Which works of theirs do you like best? 5y
Leftcoastzen Fitzgerald, I can‘t decide.Hemingway , Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms . Woolf,To the Lighthouse and Mrs.Dalloway. 5y
Linsy 🤩🤩🤩 5y
Desha ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️📚📚❣️ 5y
readinginthedark 😯😯😯😍😍😍 5y
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Cinfhen
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#winterWonderland Even though I said there wasn‘t a #snowball‘s chance in hell I was going to get through this book, I somehow managed 🙌🏻😂And if I‘m being honest despite its often bleak outlook and insufferable characters, “The Beautiful and Damned” is full of fabulous quotes about life, love and perspective.
“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life” 🍷
“Things are sweeter when they‘re lost.” Or maybe 250 pages shorter!!!

JennyM 😆😆😆 5y
Cinfhen Between a pick & so-so. Just too winded!!!!! 5y
erzascarletbookgasm 👏 for completing it! 😁 5y
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Cinfhen Thanks @JennyM @erzascarletbookgasm I wasn‘t going to let the bookclub girls shame me 😚 5y
LeahBergen I‘m surprised you read it! You don‘t like “classics”. 😂😂 5y
TrishB Well done 👍🏻 my daughter will be proud!! PS. I haven‘t read it..... 5y
Cinfhen You can skip it @TrishB you summed it up well #RichPeopleProblems 🙄 I know @LeahBergen those bookclub girls are out to get me xx 5y
robinb #coverlove (but haven‘t read 😂) 5y
Cinfhen The cover is really spectacular @robinb 5y
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LiterRohde
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“Broadway was a riot of light, thronged as he had never seen it with a carnival crowd which swept its glittering way through scraps of paper, piled ankle-deep on the sidewalks.”

#QuotsyDec18 | 3: #Neon

📷: Made with Typorama

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Cinfhen
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This IRL bookclub title perfectly describes my feelings towards this book! I think the cover is beautiful but I‘ll be damned if I have to keep on reading!!! It‘s killing me 😬😖😩

TrishB Ha ha 😂 he‘s definitely an acquired taste! 🤷‍♀️ 5y
erzascarletbookgasm 😄 I know how you feel about most classics! 5y
Cinfhen Ugh!!! I just feel like I‘m wasting my time @TrishB @erzascarletbookgasm 🤪 5y
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TrishB Privileged white peoples problems 😁 5y
batsy Not a Fitzgerald fan myself 😁 5y
LauraBeth 😂 There isn‘t enough wine that would help me slog through this! 5y
Aimeesue 😂😂😂 5y
zsuzsanna_reads I felt the same way reading this! The only Fitzgerald I really liked is Tender is the Night, which most people don't like 🤷 5y
emilyhaldi LOL but it sure is a pretty picture 💕 5y
JennyM 😆 but beautiful Friday flowers 💐 5y
Reviewsbylola BAIL!!! 😅 5y
Reviewsbylola I do love Fitzgerald though. 5y
Cinfhen I‘m using spark notes 😉🤫🤗 @Reviewsbylola @JennyM @emilyhaldi @zsuzsanna_reads @Aimeesue @LauraBeth @batsy @TrishB Life is too short to waste time on a bookclub book you don‘t want to read 🙌🏻💕and im happy to see im in good company 🙏🏻 5y
TrishB Do you admit that when you get to book club! 5y
Cinfhen I might @TrishB 😆 5y
TrishB 😂😂😂 5y
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Kbounds
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Despite the fact that the two main characters are vain, lazy, selfish human beings I actually loved this look. Seeing their lives slowly unravel as Fitzgerald‘s poetic description provides insight into their innermost thoughts was fascinating.

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CoffeeNBooks
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vkois88 💜💜💜 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty pic 🖤 6y
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nerdymsft
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Thank you so much Tatiana for my books and other goodies!!! Much love

Cathythoughts Lovely stuff 6y
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Cinfhen
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Lots of #BookMail today 😀once again my daughter managed to add my #BOTM picks into my hubby‘s office mail 🙌🏻 and the tagged book is for IRL #bookclub ( I thought the cover was similar to my current read Mademoiselle Chanel) Did #BOTM not include a bookmark this month??? I love the new #BookDepository #bookmark collection ❤️

TrishB Great book mail 👍🏻 6y
BarbaraBB Still no bookmail from Holland? I am starting to worry 🤞 6y
Cinfhen Not yet @BarbaraBB but mail can be screwy...don‘t worry🧡 6y
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Mdargusch Great mail! 6y
Reviewsbylola They included a book mark. Maybe Niki snatched it. 😂😂 6y
Cinfhen Haha knowing niki she probably tossed it! @Reviewsbylola She probably thought it was scraps 🙄 6y
Cinfhen I‘m always excited when #BookMail arrives @TrishB @Mdargusch 😍 6y
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LitTraveler
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On vacation in Nashville, TN reading a book about a couple living their life in leisure. 😂Although I do have more ambition than the Patch‘s, I wish this vacation didn‘t have to end!

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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyMay18 Day 8: It must be exhausting being tired of #Everything, of being both beautiful and damned.

tammysue Great quote 👏🏻 6y
GatheringBooks @whatshesreadingnow thank you! i thought so, too! 6y
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Coleen_Nieto
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Happy International Women's Day!

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Blaire
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Staying at an Airbnb in Los Angeles and it has so many great books on its shelves. Here‘s one for #thehoneymoonisover. #marchintooz

Cinfhen So fun!!! Enjoy LA 😎 6y
Blaire @Cinfhen thanks! It‘s been a great trip so far. 6y
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Vbrrgirl
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😊It was a movie - The Sound of Music 😊Austria of course 😊Christmas markets on the Rhine 😊Fly or by boat 😊Both!
#manicmonday @JoScho

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Vbrrgirl
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#Litsyclassics #letterb @Sarah83 Next up Fitzgerald. Not sure how I feel about this author - based on Amazon series influence- but love the time period involved. Let‘s get started.

Notafraidofwords I read it. It bogs down in the middle. But the ending is amazing. 6y
Sarah83 Enjoy 🤗 6y
Vbrrgirl Thanks @Notafraidofwords for that info. I will know there is something to hold on for!😊 6y
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toofondofbooks
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"that illusion of young romantic love to which women look forever forward and forever back."

It's not Gatsby, but well worth the time. Beautiful prose.

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erzascarletbookgasm
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DimeryRene I love this book. 6y
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Rebonkula
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When is it inappropriate to start a Go Fund Me page? Anyone? My parents just brought me home a Bauman Rare Books catalogue from Vegas. I have goosebumps.