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Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 9: #ihavesomuchtosay #theyorkehouseholdisinsane #jessyandroseflirtwithrobert #thesykesaretrashtalkinghim #carolinedefendshim #heisworkingtogetfarrenajob #also #hesbroke #nowifeforhim #yorkewantshimtomarryarichwoman #poorcaroline #staytuned #countdowntoshirley #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @bookwormjillk @kwmg40 @thebookhippie @eeclayton @jacqmac @daisey @mcctrish @elizamarie @clare-dragonfly @ruthiella @thearomaofbooks @larkken @bklover @barbarajean @dabbe @cuilin @lil1inblue 3h

BarkingMadRead @willaful @austen_meets_annie @cindymylifeislit @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @quietjenn @melissajayne @tineke @alldebooks @julieclair @kao @andrea313 @deblovestoread @librarybelle 3h

Ruthiella For everyone who has a bone to pick with Charles Dickens (whom I love), I present this unnecessarily long chapter with information about the Yorke family I doubt we‘ll need later. 3h

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BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella 💯💯💯 3h

Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella Yes! York family do you even go here???? 3h

lil1inblue @Ruthiella 💯😅 3h

lil1inblue The Yorke daughters' flirting, and Robert's reponse, made me feel the ick. 3h

BarkingMadRead @lil1inblue I feel like they‘re a little too old for this to be cute 3h

lil1inblue @BarkingMadRead 💯 Too old for it to be cute, and too young for it to be appropriate. 3h

TheBookHippie @Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣🤣 2h

Austen_meets_Annie @Ruthiella 🤣 44m

Austen_meets_Annie I'm switching from audio to kindle. Audiobook that I got on Hoopla has no Chapters. So you never know how long it's going to be and makes it impossible to swap between. 41m

Clare-Dragonfly Notice how she said she wasn‘t going to say much about the evil oldest brother (I already forgot his name and they all start with M) and then the paragraph on him was literally the longest of any of the boys? @lil1inblue yuuuuuuuuuup 38m

dabbe @Ruthiella 🎯🤣🎯 32m

dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly 🎯🤣🎯 31m

willaful @Ruthiella LOL! 29m

dabbe Am I also right in thinking that Moore loses Farren's job because, you know, #industrialrevolutioncrap but then wants Yorke to hire him so he doesn'r feel guilty? Nice. Not. 25m

BookishMarginalia It‘s a lot 😵‍💫 now

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BarbaraJean

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

I keep meaning to look up “shovel-hat” every time it‘s mentioned, but then forget by the end of the chapter. I put down the book and looked it up tonight. It‘s always gratifying when Wikipedia has the exact information I wanted, along with pictures. It‘s also gratifying to learn the existence of the word “shovelhattery.” 😆 #HashtagBrigade

Ruthiella Thank you! That‘s not what I pictured when I read it. 😂 17h

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Andrea313

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Bront�

I'm about 10 seconds away from full-on hyperfixation with the Luddite Uprisings. I was vaguely aware of the movement in broad strokes but I see several nonfiction deep dives coming soon! Anyway, some workers gather to meet with Moore (some to issue an ultimatum, some to talk rationally) and old Robert Capitalist doubles down on screwing the workers and has their leader arrested while he threatens everyone else with a pistol. Truly, fuck this dude.

Andrea313 📷: Poster by Shaun Slifer of the artists' collective JustSeeds, a favorite of mine. Get your Google on and buy their cool work! #HashtagBrigade #ProfitsAreOnlyForOwnersNeverWorkers #CapitalismIsAScourge #HowTimesNeverChange #EnoughOfTheOwnersAndClergy #ShowMeTheWorkers #WilliamFerrenRules 24h

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mcctrish

The Count of Monte-Cristo | Alexandre Dumas

#hashtagbrigade In 2026, PBS proudly added The Count of Monte Cristo to its MASTERPIECE lineup. This adaptation offered audiences a fresh take on Alexandre Dumas‘ enduring classic.

Sam Claflin starred as Edmond Dantès, a young sailor whose promising life was shattered. A false accusation and wrongful imprisonment set him on a path filled with hardship and betrayal.

Aims42 Oh thank God. This was a 2025 read in my ILR bookclub that I attempted but gave up on. I will check this out!! 1d

mcctrish @Aims42 I am looking forward to this 1d

Aims42 @mcctrish I‘m here for it 🙌 1d

AnnCrystal Cannot wait 🤩👍🏼💝. 24h

dabbe Well, hello, Mr. Handsome! 💙🩶🖤 5h

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 8: #thisonewashardtogetthrough #robertisanass #arrestingaprotester #carolinewouldbesoproud 🙄 #peekintofarrenslife 😭 #thissucks #countdowntoshirley #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @willaful @austen_meets_annie @cindymylifeislit @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @quietjenn @melissajayne @tineke @alldebooks @julieclair @kao @andrea313 @deblovestoread @librarybelle 1d

willaful It was indeed.

I hope Farren will be okay, but not everyone will be.. 1d

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mcctrish Robert could have hired some of the less rabble-like handworkers? To learn the machines ? Or is that what the children do? The men are all out of work and he‘s hiring child labourers? 🤯#burnitdownrabblerousers 1d

Clare-Dragonfly Hall is a good man. I hope we get more of him. 1d

lil1inblue @mcctrish 🎯 23h

lil1inblue I got Christmas Carol vibes from this chapter. 😭 23h

willaful @lil1inblue I did too. It's very Dickens to think the solution is for the owners to just be better people. Not that it would hurt, that's for sure... 15h

AnishaInkspill this is interesting, I hadn't realized, and I will try and read this next year. 15h

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BarbaraJean

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

“Are all marriages unhappy?”
“Millions of marriages are unhappy: if everybody confessed the truth, perhaps all are more or less so.”
“You are always vexed when you are asked to come and marry a couple—why?”
“Because one does not like to act as accessory to the commission of a piece of pure folly.”
…
“A yokefellow is not a companion; he or she is a fellow-sufferer.”

Well, isn‘t this a delightful commentary on marriage? 😳😂 #HashtagBrigade

BarkingMadRead

ferskner Oooof! 2d

ElizaMarie 😬 1d

lil1inblue 🤨🤨🤨 1d

TieDyeDude Who has hurt you?!?!?! 😬 😅 1d

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Andrea313

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

Good GOD, this book! First of all, let's just acknowledge the unexpected party that unfolds, with unwelcome guests popping up like so many dwarves descending on Bag End - first the miserable curate trio and then the maddening ladies Sykes?! After being totally dissed by Robert earlier in the day, Lina's day can't get much worse. But then, oh yes, we see some startling 1800s racism and antisemitism on display and omg is this chapter done yet??

Andrea313 #AllTheseReligiousDudesSuck #MisogynyAbounds #CarolineYouDeserveBetter #RobertIsPlayingGames #DiscouragesFlirting #ButThenKissesHerThreeTimes #GTFO #FiguresOutWhoLedTheFrameBreaking #BringOnTheActivists #UpTheWorkers 2d

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade 2d

Bklover 🎯🎯🎯❤️ 2d

ElizaMarie Agreed!!!! 1d

lil1inblue 🎯 1d

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 7: #somuchfinallyhappened #robertisbeingweird #thewholeuniverseshowsupfortea #boysaredumb #sweetingwantsdora #whoofcoursedidntshow #donneisobnoxious #robertshowsup #carolinegetswisetohisbullshit #andyethekissesher #heneedstomakeuphisdamnmind #countdowntoshirley #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @willaful @austen_meets_annie @cindymylifeislit @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @quietjenn @melissajayne @tineke @alldebooks @julieclair @kao @andrea313 @deblovestoread @librarybelle 2d

Ruthiella Worst tea party ever. I think it‘s money and pride that are holding Moore back. He‘d marry Caroline if he weren‘t broke. 2d

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TheBookHippie 🤣🤣🤣FINALLY something happens … 2d

Deblovestoread Shirley isn‘t Caroline‘s mother…or is she? Enquiring minds want to know. 2d

mcctrish I‘d be out of my mind if I was the cook and 7 ? unexpected guests showed up for tea and even worse is the dumbass who won‘t drink his cold tea to end the tea to hold power over the tea 2d

mcctrish ALSO how fucking miserable is it that ‘we‘ keep women uneducated so they are useless to talk to and therefore don‘t want to marry them because who the fuck wants to live with a ninny unless you like a ninny cuz they are easy to make fun of and why have a woman if you can‘t make fun of them #OHMYGOD 2d

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish so so many things about this chapter irritated me. Don‘t even get me started on having to do a Google search of a Jew-basket and the images that come up. Omg 2d

mcctrish oh god I totally forgot about the ' jew basket' in my rage! handicrafts sold at exorbitant prices to fund the gathering of the lost 10 tribes and convert them FFS 2d

ElizaMarie googling Jew-basket now

https://dragoncache.blogspot.com (edited) 2d

lil1inblue I realized why I can't keep any of the men's names straight in this book: I know all of these types IRL and they have other names. 😂 2d

willaful #GoToHellRobert #CarolineDeservesBetter 2d

lil1inblue @mcctrish Oh, Donne made me so mad! But I loved when Bronte called him a #pitifulprater. 😂 2d

lil1inblue @willaful 🎯 🎯 🎯 2d

Bookwormjillk I liked this chapter despite taking all day to read. It was quite funny with the kissing cousins and all. 2d

Clare-Dragonfly “Boys are dumb” was definitely the theme of this chapter. With a brief detour for antisemitism and racism. 2d

BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly 💯💯 2d

Austen_meets_Annie I just found this hilarious:
“Yes, you must go, or they will come in and find us here; and I, rather than meet all that host in the passage, will take my departure through the window. Luckily it opens like a door.“ 2d

mcctrish @Austen_meets_Annie that was the most personality Robert has shown so far 👏🏻👏🏻 2d

mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly today‘s tea will include misogyny with a sprinkle of antisemitism and racism for dessert 2d

Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish Can I place a different order? I‘ve had enough of those flavors to last a lifetime. 2d

mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly the menu should indeed be different by now! 2d

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Cuilin

Lost Books | Ted Dekker

#Hashtagbrigade @BarkingMadRead

I so wanted to join in this month‘s buddy read. I was convinced I had a copy of this book. I pulled my house apart and then remembered I have a daughter who really likes the Brontës. Here is a photo she sent me with Shirley sitting on her shelf in Virginia, I am in New Hampshire ?‍♀️ I‘m glad I raised a reader but a #bookthief ?

TheBookHippie I had this with a few Austen books 🤣. How fun. ♥️ 2d

Bookwormjillk Ha! I like that she sent you evidence like yup I stole your book and I am not sorry. 2d

SamAnne Hah! Same here. Cannot find my copy….did I loan it? Library doesn‘t have it. ,so,haven‘t been joining in. 2d

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Cuilin @TheBookHippie This is why I thrift multiples 😉 2d

Cuilin @Bookwormjillk I said all is forgiven but you better move it to the top of your TBR 😂 2d

Cuilin @SamAnne there are #BookThieves among us!! 😆 (edited) 2d

Ruthiella 😂 Mystery solved! @SamAnne You can access a free electronic copy via Gutenberg.org if you were so inclined. 2d

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣 mine does the same… 2d

TheBookHippie @Cuilin SAME 💯🤣 2d

SamAnne @Ruthiella thanks for the rec! 2d

BarkingMadRead Gasp! It‘s like you want to be proud but also you want to be mad 🤣 2d

BarkingMadRead Oh. And should I remove you from the taglist 2d

Cuilin @BarkingMadRead You know I love your hashtags, please keep tagging me. (I also did a little research and read that CB wrote Shirley when all of her siblings had passed away 😢). 2d

dabbe This is just what I needed today. A child book thief--bless her Bronte heart! 🩶🤍🩶 2d

AnnCrystal 😅📚💝. 2d

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Bookwormjillk

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

#breakfastandabook although this chapter is so long it will probably turn into #lunchandabook too #hashtagbrigade

dabbe 🎯🤣🎯 2d

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