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The Mysteries of Udolpho | Anne Radcliffe

Ch 4.13: #emilyvisitstheresafornews #nobodyhasseenvalancourt #emilylosesherdamnmind #somuchcrying #knockknockknock #ofcourseitsvalancourt #sowemustfaint #itsamiracle #emilyisallforgiving #butwait #shepusheshimaway #soproud #theresaisconfused #valancourtisdevastated #emilypeacesout ✌️ #valancourtleavesheraring #nevertobeseenagain #maybe 🤷🏻‍♀️ #hashtagbrigade #ps #wtf #ithoughtwewouldgetludostale 🙄

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Bookwormjillk I could have smacked Theresa today 2h

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk in her defense, Emily won‘t tell her anything 🙄 these people need to learn to communicate 2h

kwmg40 I loved Teresa's snide comments about rich people! 😂 2h

mcctrish I mean Theresa isn‘t wrong 11m

Clare-Dragonfly I was really hoping Theresa would ask for an explanation, Emily would give one, and V would go “wait that‘s not accurate!” We only have a few chapters left, guys, get it together! now

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mcctrish

The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe

#iykyk #hashtagbrigade

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 1h

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lauraisntwilder

The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters

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Catching up on posting! I've had this ARC, from my days as a bookstore owner, for something like 15 years. My husband read it back then and recommended it, but I only just now got to it. It's fantastic. So atmospheric and nice and long.

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AllDebooks

The mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bonamy Dobr�e

I'm currently participating in the final #hashtagbrigade #buddyread of the year. 10ish chapters left, and I just don't care anymore. I've never read a book with more loose ends, dead ends, and 'we won't talk about that' plot devices in my life. Thank goodness for @BarkingMadRead keeping us sane and the humour flowing. Otherwise, I would have bailed around chapter 10!
FYI, I got bored and did a word count. 🙄😅
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AllDebooks Word count results - Hither 158; Thither -53; Whither - 58; Crying + cry - 36; Weeping + weep + wept - 176; Fainting + faint - 175 😱 1d

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AllDebooks Sorry, I should have been reading tonight's chapter but got distracted 😅 1d

Librarybelle Word count dedication! 1d

BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1d

BarkingMadRead #wordcountqueen 1d

AllDebooks @Librarybelle @BarkingMadRead Just so you know, it was on Kindle. I didn't sit there with a book and highlighter. I do have a life! 😅 1d

BarkingMadRead But still. You had to do the search 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d

AllDebooks @BarkingMadRead 😬 you got me 1d

dabbe I managed to get through THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV thanks to this group and @BarkingMadRead's hilarious posts and @Aimeesue's hysterical dioramas, but this one? I bailed at Book 2. And I had also tried to read it a few years ago. I just couldn't do it. Again. Writing that goes on and on an on and on with tears all over the place and too many descriptions and meandering everywhere ... bleh! I'll be up for the January read, though! 🤩 1d

mcctrish @dabbe The Bros was better ( never thought I‘d say that ) 1d

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish you know it‘s a bad book when #thebrosarebetter 1d

mcctrish @AllDebooks the fainting count surprises me, I must have fainted myself and missed then but all those ithers I have felt and I attribute them to the author‘s dithering 1d

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it‘s mind boggling 1d

Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 The Bros! Slightly less histrionic than The Mysteries of Udolfo! 23h

mcctrish @Ruthiella there was no crying 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 22h

Clare-Dragonfly Brilliant word counting 😂 22h

eeclayton Wow 😲 17h

AllDebooks @Clare-Dragonfly it's telling that I would rather do that than read the bloody thing. 😅 14h

TheAromaofBooks It honestly seems like there should be more crying 😂 Maybe we should add “tears“ to the word count?? Poor Emily, it just seems like her eyes must be swollen shut all the time! 13h

dabbe @mcctrish Well, that makes me feel a wee bit better. And you even helped me through a few chapters, and I still couldn't get through it! 🤩😂🤩 7h

mcctrish @dabbe you‘ve honestly missed nothing cuz nothing ever happens 6h

mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks it‘s amazing she can see anything 6h

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BarkingMadRead

Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 4.12: whoa! #buckleup #backtoblancheandco #travelingtovisitemily #lostinthemountains #withthebats #andastorm #obviously #themooncomesout #backontheroad #totallylost #crossingdownedtrees #findacastle #becasueofcoursetheresarandomcastle #huntersinside #blancheoverhearstheirplot #becauseofcoursetheyrebanditti #faintingensues #obviously #thebanditscatchher #swordsclash #thefianceeisbloody #morefainting #ludototherescue #wtfludo ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

BarkingMadRead #thefianceisntdead #countisoktoo #ludogetsthemout #andnowwefinallygettohearhistale #tomorrow #right ⁉️#right ⁉️ #omg #hashtagbrigade 1d

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Bookwormjillk Some stuff happened in this long chapter at least 1d

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mcctrish @Bookwormjillk I was just skimming along and then “wait what?! Ludo is here?!” Truthfully I thought for sure they were banditti but then I thought they were hunters and maybe V was with them (edited) 1d

Clare-Dragonfly Something actually happened!!! @mcctrish I also thought V would turn out to be with them. 22h

peanutnine I was like oh now we finally get to hear what happened to Ludo! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Just kidding 20h

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Melismatic

Rouge | Mona Awad

Mona Awad loves to play with truly weird ideas. I‘m not sure what‘s going on right now but it‘s both creeping me out and making me laugh. 🤷🏻‍♀️ ♥️

Billypar I loved this book and the Tom Cruise parts cracked me up! 😆 1d

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BarkingMadRead

Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 4.11: #shortchapter #emilyfindstheresa 😍 #sheisverycomfy #thankstovalancourt 🙄#staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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mcctrish So we are just supposed to forgive Valancourt‘s whoring around?! #boyswillbeboys? Just ugh! The Victorian novelist kills women for less 😡 2d

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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish so frustrating! 2d

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish I do think the whole point of this book will be we‘re supposed to forgive Val and be happy for Em when she ends up with him. 2d

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk better a loser than being alone #amiright 2d

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish #youareright 2d

Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish You‘d think she would have learned from her aunt that a loser is NOT better than being alone! 2d

Clare-Dragonfly Raise your hand if you didn‘t know it was Valancourt helping Theresa the moment she said she couldn‘t say who it was 🤛🏻 2d

BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly I was torn between him and the creeper, it could have gone either way I guess 🤣 I also half wonder if it was the creeper that got shot as well 🤣 2d

mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly you‘d think 🤔 😝 2d

mcctrish Ooo @BarkingMadRead maybe the creeper was shot saving Val once again 2d

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OutsmartYourShelf

Collected Ghost Stories | M.R. James

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A collection of short ghost stories all written by the author. Like many collections, it's a mixed bag - some of the stories are really quite effective with the ambience & creeping sense of menace, whereas others either wander off into too much extraneous detail or frustratingly fizzle out just as they're getting good. Given James's background, it shouldn't come as a surprise that so many of the stories are based around religion & the Church.

OutsmartYourShelf So an entertaining read overall but I wouldn't be in a rush to re-read this one. 3.5🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4791101842
Read 12th-17th Dec 2024

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BookmarkTavern Love reading ghost stories for this season! ❤️ 2d

Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎄🎄 2d

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CrowCAH

Jamaica Inn | Daphne Du Maurier

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#HitchToScreen

I am so glad I finally read this one (actually listened to it)!

It was moody, atmospheric, riveting, fast paced, emotional. It had me second guessing who was “good” and “evil.” Like Mary I shouldn‘t doubt myself.

The ending was super touching ❤️ As persons we long for a human connection, not just ties to the land.

This is my third du Maurier story and I‘ve loved them all!!! (Rebecca and Frenchman‘s Creek)

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JenlovesJT47 Yay! I loved it too 💚 3d

Scochrane26 This has been on my tbr for too long. I had considered audio but wasn‘t sure. Glad to know you liked the audio version! 3d

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BarkingMadRead

Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 4.10: almost home #lotsofcryingandfainting #emilyseessomeoneinthegarden #obviouslyitsvalancourt #thegardenerthinksitsarobber #obviouslyheshootshim #annetteissworntosecrecy #ofcourseshetellsemily #whofaints #obviously #shecantfindoutwhowasshot #wasitvalancourt #ishedead #wewillprobablyneverknow #obviously 🤣 #timetoheadhome #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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peanutnine #Obviously 🤣🤣 you crack me up! So true though 3d

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Bookwormjillk 10 chapters left! 3d

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine #obviously 🤷🏻‍♀️ this is usually the point where I would binge read the end, but I feel like I still wouldn‘t know anything, so why bother 🤣 @Bookwormjillk #hallelujah 3d

TheAromaofBooks I gotta be honest, I freaking love Annette and her complete inability to keep a secret 😂 3d

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks without Annette, we wouldn‘t know a damn thing 🤣 3d

Clare-Dragonfly There doesn‘t seem to be much acknowledgement that Annette‘s husband has disappeared! 3d

Clare-Dragonfly Linguistic note: I see that Annette has switched from calling Emily “mamselle” to “madam”! This matches up with something I noted in the book I just finished—in English, Mrs was for a long time just a title of respect for an adult woman of a certain class, even if she wasn‘t married. The Mrs versus Miss for marital status distinction wasn‘t solidified until the mid-19th century. Emily is probably Madam now that she‘s inherited.

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

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BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly ohhhhh that‘s interesting! And poor Ludo ☠️ 3d

mcctrish #obviously 👏🏻👏🏻🤣 3d

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