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Making this my priority this week. And what a week it will be. Glad I can get into this a bit and tune out the American noise for a few minutes.

These French boys. Running around with such fragile egos! It is actually interesting to read this and Men Who Hate Women at the same time.

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#RandomClassics @TheAromaofBooks

(thru ch30) Okay, I've not been doing a great job hosting this one 😂 But I actually am really enjoying it! These guys are so ridiculous and over-the-top. And D'Artagnan finally gets to be a real musketeer... if he can find the money to get all his gear. Of course he's too busy chasing the mysterious stranger all over town haha And what do you think has happened to poor Constance??

Are you all enjoying this one or no?

Once we get to where the ⬇

#RandomClassics I‘ve seen “teh” all over the internet, and lately with the undereducated news reporters working these days, in print media. But “hte” is a new one to me.

(thru ch21) How is it going, friends? I know a few of us are a little behind 😂 So without getting into too many spoilers, I have to say that the action has been quite exciting over the last couple of chapters!! (Although I felt terrible for the horses! 😢) I didn't realize there was going to be so much political intrigue, but on the whole I feel like Dumas keeps it light enough to stay entertaining.

I am planning to stick with the chapter-a-day⬇

Still a bit behind on #randomclassics reading but chipping away, this is such a fall morning vibe!

We're 14 chapters in and I'm only just now checking to see how everyone is doing 😂 The first couple of chapters were a bit of a struggle for me, but I am starting to enjoy it now. This book is a lot more snarky than I was anticipating. And even though D'Artagnan is a hot-headed mess, I'm finding him entertaining. How is it going for all of you? Have any of you decided to bail? Any favorite characters/scenes?

#hauntedshelf #flerken #wordsearch #chesnut

Life‘s too short.

I did not know this meaning of “levee”! #randomclassics

Getting ready to start this #RandomClassic !! I'm curious to know what translations everyone is reading? @janeycanuck shared an article yesterday with some fantastic information on the various English choices - https://welovetranslations.com/2022/07/13/whats-the-best-translation-of-the-thre... - and reading it made me purchase a different copy! I really wanted to read the two volume hardcovers that I have had on my shelf for so ⬇

So excited for this one!

Sharing my October #bookspin list just in time 🎃🍁🍂 Looking forward to a month of cozy reading!

Hey friends!! We'll be starting this #RandomClassic on Tuesday!! I am here to take a poll: do we want to stick with one chapter a day, which means it will take us a little over two months to read this; or go with two chapters a day and finish in early November? I'm slightly inclined to stick with the single chapter because I have a lot of buddy reads for October, but I also understand if we don't want it to drag out so long haha ⬇

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Via @TheAromaofBooks

Hey friends!! Time to start thinking about our October #RandomClassic - The Three Musketeers!! I've never read this book or any other book by Dumas, but I have had a lovely two-volume edition sitting on my shelf since... 2003 k Let me know if you want to read along!! Wel'll be tackling one chapter a day, which means it will take us over 2 months to finish this 65-chapter story.

Hey friends!! Time to start thinking about our October #RandomClassic - The Three Musketeers!! I've never read this book or any other book by Dumas, but I have had a lovely two-volume edition sitting on my shelf since... 2003 😂 Let me know if you want to read along!! We'll be tackling one chapter a day, which means it will take us over 2 months to finish this 65-chapter story.

I'm planning to post The Red Pony discussion this weekend. Hopefully⬇

My second weekend in a row at HPB ended in a massive book haul… so here goes:

I ❤️❤️❤️ the Count of Monte Cristo. So how can I possibly go wrong with the Three Musketeers?

I got a few books in Maine today….

Finished! 🎉

Having a little readathon day to see if I can finish The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. I have around 400 pages left. 🤞

The Three Musketeers was my best read for September. 🥰
#12Booksof2023

I‘m hoping to get your funny bone ready for holiday happiness! Thanksgiving funnies start tomorrow!

4 ⭐️s
Certainly different than any film adaptation I‘ve ever seen. I quite enjoyed it though. It‘s not as much of a fast paced adventure but more of a comedy/drama with humor and intrigue as its strong points. 17th century France certainly had a different idea of what “honorable” looked like. 😅 Lady de Winter had a much larger role and is definitely not a sympathetic character. The Musketeers each have their unique personalities. ⬇️

Athos trolling the prison guards had me laughing so hard!

I never knew Athos, Porthos, and Aramis weren‘t really their names but more like nicknames. I‘m loving this book so much. ❤️

This will always be the song I associate with The Three Musketeers. 😅❤️ I know it‘s obvious, but it is what it is. 🤷‍♀️

https://youtu.be/ofA3URC1wyk?si=FNZ15z1BYzn_XK1m

#BookNotes

I made a 20 book long list for Book Bingo this month and what do I do on the 1st? Pick one that‘s not on the list! Thank goodness for those free spaces! 😅🤣

Pro tip: if you are making a #14books14weeks2023 list, you shouldn‘t put 5 classics on it if you actually would like a chance to complete the challenge. You definitely shouldn‘t include this one…I‘ve been making my way through this all month and am SO ready to be done with it!
@TheHeartlandBookFairy

I enjoyed reading this classic book. I loved the plot of the book and the characters were great. I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars. This is the seventh book completed in the #RushAThon readathon hosted by @Andrew65

A little late in the month, but up next, my #doublespin for July.

It‘s also on my #14books14weeks2023 list (8 of 14)

@TheAromaofBooks @TheHeartlandBookFairy

The adventure and intrigue make for a great story.

Here we go! My stack for the #14books14weeks2023 challenge: read 14 books in the 14 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day! All of these are books I own but have not read with the exception of 2 library books. I can‘t wait to cross them off my TBR! Thank you for the invite, @CoverToCoverGirl and thank you for hosting, @TheHeartlandBookFairy 📚

Want to join in the fun, @Kelly326 🥰

Wow I‘m so glad to be done with this book… it was for a book club and although it is a classic and the story and writing have their merits, I just really did not enjoy reading it. I felt like the story was way too long and had us shooting off in random directions the whole time. I will say in the end everything was addressed and closed up which is why it‘s getting a so so and not a pan.

This is an amusingly silly caper. The plot is pretty meandering and twisty - you can tell it was initially written as a series - which is a bit hard to follow at times. It's quite the thriller at the end. And D'Artagnan is an endearingly hot-headed idiot.

#OnThisDay in 2002, celebrations began in France to honour what would have been the 200th birthday of author Alexandre Dumas. The celebrations would continue throughout the year, culminating in Dumas' ashes being interred in the Pantheon to lie in honour with other great authors of France. Then President Jacques Chirac acknowledged the racism that had kept the celebrated author from his rightful place of rest. #HistoryGetsLIT

#ReadHarder challenge 13: an adventure story by a BIPOC author

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#chunksterchallenge2022
This book was such great fun. So many hilarious, raucous scenes with the Musketeers. And Milady - what a villain! She was terrifying. The final 200 pages I couldn‘t put down and read straight through. Onto War and Peace!

I truly enjoyed the marvelous work of the narrator Guy Mott who gave each character a distinct voice and even managed to have a singing voice of a woman and did that well. I‘ve never seen any of the movies so the story was unknown to me. I enjoyed it and see why we are still reading it and retelling it after hundreds of years.

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 154.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

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 127th

Join the fun if you want!

#tbrpile

This was a little tricky to get into at first; the story took a while to get going, which is understandable given its source, but about two thirds in I found it unputdownable and I really enjoyed the story. I would recommend as a good read, but be prepared to persist with the initial slow start.

My LAST Amazon book haul! Gotta do this to hold myself accountable. 🤓🤪😁

#ccspin #ClassicsClubRound2 Am listening at 1.4x; I hope I can create enough listening time to finish by May31st. Esther needs to walk 15+ miles a week, right?

“In this fallen world, even good men have demons in them.”

3 stars

I took a month-long break from THE THREE MUSKETEERS so I could get my money‘s worth out of Scribd, but I dove back in this week and finished it this morning while I made an ugly (but delicious!) king cake. It was fun, and it got me thinking about how 19th century serial fiction operated much like TV did in the 20th century. There‘s an overarching plot, but Dumas is more interested in keeping things going than in resolving anything. #audiobaking

Another dull, slushy #audiowalk took me to 3:27 for #20in4. I‘m having a blast with the book. The weather I could‘ve done without, though I‘m grateful it‘s at least warm enough to be outside for longer than two minutes.

Lunchtime #audiocooking! I planned to stuff the other half of my flatbread with bleu cheese, but I decided I wanted something more substantial. My favourite fake mapo tofu recipe (minus the tofu) was the perfect thing.

Please note, also, that this is the third time I‘ve tried to read THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This time, I‘m in exactly the right mood for Dumas and I WILL succeed. Bring on the verbose, ironic shenanigans!

A quarter way thru and I was not feeling this, at all. So onto spark notes about the why of what I‘d read (an 1800‘s author with a 1600‘s tale to tell), and how is was originally written in serial segments for a magazine. I continued to read a spark notes section then the actual book (and even audio). It all helped and I‘m done! I‘m giving it a pick because I did it, but boy from today‘s perspective - these are 4 privileged white guys.