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October: BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

LOVED reading this with the #hashtagbrigade! 🩶🤍🩶

October's best book was another classic read for #192025 and I'm glad I chose it. This YA book is focused on Francie, a girl coming of age in the early 1900s. We also spend some time with her mother and the rest of her family, too. It's slow, just a glimpse at a simple life in Brooklyn, their struggles, and the little happy moments but it's good.

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So in addition to many curious illustrations, this book offers the author‘s penis size, 3 inches long, 5 inches diameter. A world record as far as he knows. I suppose this is a story I‘ll never forget, but was it worth my while? Maybe, I‘ll think about it later in life. It used one of my favorite words, solipsism. Dwane Hoover diminishes into psychotic violence, believing he is the only person on earth with free will; all others are robots, etc.

Current reading companions #TrickyCat and #DavidCat — in the background, #ChipmunkCat

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Helstone and Moore go to rescue the men bound on Stilbro' Moor and fight about their opposing political views the whole way. This comes after our narrator becomes a disappointing apologist for Helstone, the "warlike" parson. He may be "without sympathy; ungentle; and prejudiced" ...but any criticism for that is just "poisonous rancour". ? The bar for men has always been in Hell! Anyway, the translation for the chapter's French dialogue is above.

It's the last Saturday of the holiday break, it's snowy outside, and this is my entire plan for the day! #Proust2026 #HashtagBrigade #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights #CurrentlyReading

Slowly, I'm think I'm getting attached to the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The various digressions are a bit exhausting, but like lots of classic literature, I believe if you're willing to stick with it and adjust to its tone, cadence and style, it pays dividends. You know, maybe to be alive in a world like ours, one has to be "mad", and in that, perhaps Don Quixote couldn't be more human.

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Ch 3: #blahblahblah #whigs #blahblahblah #tories #blahblahblah #politics #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

I can‘t wait to read this again with the #hashtagbrigade #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo