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Them
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
The members of the Wendall family struggle for thirty years to understand the obscure forces constantly tearing at their lives and happiness.
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Cathythoughts
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
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Books , books , books 😁... I‘m tagging THEM because I‘m delighted to have found a copy ...
Wolf Hall ready @Cinfhen
But , I‘m starting with The Warden, as I read the kindle sample & Im dying to know what happens next @rubyslippersreads @AnneCecilie

Balibee146 Great stack! I've owned Wolf Hall for ages and Bring Up The Bodies.... #mountTBR 🙄😬😘 5y
Cathythoughts @Balibee146 You know @Cinfhen is doing a buddy read of Wolf Hall around now ... would you be free (edited) 5y
Balibee146 Tempted!.... but I'm only about a third way through The Stand and a bit obsessed with it... Would have been cool but I don't have the mental bandwidth 😘😘 5y
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Cathythoughts @Balibee146 I understand! I took a notion to look at The Warden ( can‘t put it down) & now Wolf Hall won‘t be started till Sunday or so ... I havnt read The Stand ... enjoy the obsession 👍🏻❤️ 5y
Balibee146 Enjoy both of them.... The Stand is amazing so far 👍👍 5y
LeahBergen I hope you like The Warden. We (who recently read it together) had mentioned carrying on with the series and reading Barchester Towers a little later this year. 😀 5y
Cathythoughts @LeahBergen 👍🏻 I‘m enjoying so far ❤️ 5y
CarolynM I loved both Wolf Hall and The Warden (2 very different books). Hope you enjoy them too. I've never read Joyce Carol Oates. 5y
Lcsmcat ❤️ Trollope! 5y
batsy What @CarolynM said! Two very different books and I hope you enjoy them ❤️ 5y
AnneCecilie I‘m going to an event with Oates in May and haven‘t read anything by her yet. Looking forward to reading your thoughts on it. I loved Wolf Hall when I read it ages ago. I‘m going to get I copy of The Warden. 5y
Cathythoughts @Carolynm @batsy Thankyou! Really am enjoying The Warden this afternoon as it rains away outside 😘😘 5y
Cathythoughts @Lcsmcat yes! Really enjoying 👍🏻❤️ (edited) 5y
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perfectsinner
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
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Used book haul #2

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LiterRohde
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
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“Because we are poor, shall we be vicious?”

This quote opens the tagged book that starts in the ‘30‘s and ends with the Detroit riot. The quote is also a part of The White Devil by John Webster.

#TimbitTunes | 18: #BlackDayInJuly

📷: Made with Typorama

Cinfhen I‘m intrigued!! Thanks for posting & sharing 🤓 6y
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CotziasReads
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
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A Readathon is good excuse to go all in on the comfort foods.
#deweys24hourreadathon #macandcheese

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BarbaraBB
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
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To me the poor family Wendall started out as 'them' for sure; mother Loretta is so very far away from anyone I can imagine. Her harshness, her quite unconventional love for her children, but also her strength and willpower.
The way her children respond to the circumstances under which they grow up is quite moving and in a way I can relate to it, which makes 'them' no longer 'them'. I think this is the point that Oates wanted to make. #1001books

BarbaraBB Besides that I was shocked by the Afterword after reading the Author's Note! It changed my image of Oates as a writer completely! 7y
Cathythoughts Barbara, I‘m wondering if this book can be read as a stand alone , as I see it‘s part of a quartet ?? Thanks 5y
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts I‘ve read it as a stand alone without knowing it is part of a series and had no problem reading it. So I should give it a try if I were you! 5y
Cathythoughts Thanks 👍🏻 5y
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MrBook
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
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There she is! The myth, the legend, her lady, Joyce Carol Oates. 😎👍🏻 Yeeaahh. She read a chapter from Book Of Martyrs that isn't in the book 😆. So there ya go, lol. It was a great time. #BEA17

melbeautyandbooks That's awesome! 8y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 8y
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AshleyHoss820
Them | Joyce Carol Oates
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Mehso-so

Well, this book was a nice slice of depressing. I felt kinda "meh" about it. I didn't connect with any of the characters and I'm not sure if you're meant to... 92/1,001 #1001Books

vivastory What are your favorite Oates' novels? 8y
AshleyHoss820 I've only read this and Black Water by her and I really liked Black Water! 8y
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