Taking a cozy bath tonight with Christy and David 😆 #WhatTheDickens #RandomClassics
LeahBergen That looks lovely! 6d
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Taking a cozy bath tonight with Christy and David 😆 #WhatTheDickens #RandomClassics
(thru ch39) - I haven't enjoyed the last week of chapters as much, since the guys' way of earning money mostly seems to be manipulating the women in their lives 🙄D'Artagnan really is showing is youth and inexperience here as well. At least he found Kitty a new job 😑 I've missed the slapstick from the earlier section of the book, but we'll see what happens if they ever actually head off on their tour of duty. I AM intrigued by some of the ⬇
#weeklyforecast
I am reading the tagged on audio and need to start The Facemaker both for #NFNovember with @Bookwormjillk
Am half into Headshot (meh) library book that needs to go back
Not pictured #randomclassics The Three Musketeers with @TheAromaofBooks which I am determined to finish today so I can get back to chipping away on The Little Friend and start Flamingo both for #10BefiretheEnd
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Starting today‘s chapter for #randomclassics. Mysterious and intriguing start.
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"'What!" said he, "you have just lost a woman whom you thought good, charming, perfect, and now you are running after another?"
D'Artagnan felt the justice of reproach
"I love Madame Bonancieux," said he, "with all my heart; but I love 'My Lady's with my head; and by going to her house, I hope to enlighten myself as to the character she plays in court."
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bailed#RandomClassics I listened to more than half of this, which is the longest I‘ve ever given a book before bailing. At first I thought it was humorous. But then I realized there wasn‘t much difference between Richelieu, Milady, and the rest of the “villains” and D‘Artagnon, the three and all of the Musketeers. D‘Artagnon and his compatriots didn‘t pay for rent, meals, or inns. They seduced women by fair play or by foul, whether the women (cont)⬇️
“Surely one of the chief differences between the veteran teacher and the recruit must be that the experienced can never find enough time, whereas the ingénue struggles to fill the hours, looks forward to dismissal time as a reprieve.”
Oh it can happen to us veterans too!
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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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My very old copy for #randomclassics with @TheAromaofBooks I‘ve seen the miniseries as well. I‘m pretty sure I read this at some point, but it was a long time ago!
