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The Mysteries of Udolpho | Anne Radcliffe

Ch 4.14: Ludo is back #annettethoughthewasaghost #andnowweknow #pirates 🏴‍☠️ #anotherghoststorydebunked #theresabringsthering #emilywonttakeit #putstheresarightinherplace #soproud #wantstohookupludoandannettewithahouse #awwwww #timeforawedding #babybaronandnlanche #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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Bookwormjillk At least they didn‘t shoot this one 5d

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mcctrish How bright is Annette?! 5d

Clare-Dragonfly We finally get the story! Secret passages in the walls! 5d

Bklover I am behind! My oldest daughter has been in the hospital and I haven‘t read a word in a week. I will catch up, I hope! (She will be fine) 4d

TheAromaofBooks @Clare-Dragonfly - Apparently any and all ghosts are actually people in walls 😂 4d

TheAromaofBooks @Bklover - Hope you daughter is doing better!!! 4d

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks little did we know that this is actually a horror story 🤣 @Bklover I‘m so glad she will be ok, sending hugs! 4d

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BarkingMadRead

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 6d

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk in her defense, Emily won‘t tell her anything 🙄 these people need to learn to communicate 6d

kwmg40 I loved Teresa's snide comments about rich people! 😂 6d

mcctrish I mean Theresa isn‘t wrong 6d

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! 6d

peanutnine @Clare-Dragonfly 💯💯 6d

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BarkingMadRead

Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 4.2: short chapter! #blessed #hallelujah #oh #andemilykicksVtothecurb #peaceoutjerk #byeeeeee #soproud #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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mcctrish All hail the queen! 2w

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Bookwormjillk Blissfully short chapter. I really hope this isn‘t winding up to a Jane Eyre ending. 2w

eeclayton #blessed Good riddance V! 2w

TheAromaofBooks I just want Emily to be able to go back and home and live out her days in peace and solitude, but I think she's going to end up saddled with one of these losers for life 😂 2w

julieclair I‘m proud of her for kicking V to the curb. I didn‘t think she had it in her. 2w

Bklover @julieclair Neither did I! @TheAromaofBooks Don‘t you think she‘d be thrilled to just go home and find Theresa(isn‘t that her name?) and the two of them could hang out and she could write poetry all day! 2w

TheAromaofBooks @Bklover - Yes!! And have a little dog?? (I just realized - what happened to the dog?? Did I miss its tragic end, or it did it just fade out of the story??) 2w

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks that poor dog poof 💨 disappears it seems. Abandoned. 2w

julieclair @TheAromaofBooks I totally forgot about the dog! 🤔 2w

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Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 3.5: #auntiesfuneralfinallyhappens #macaroniwantsemilytosignpapers #totallyliesaboutthem #emilyrefuses #soproud #andnowwewait #emilythinksitsvalancourttoo #butwhoisitreally #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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peanutnine Definitely thought Emily was gonna fuck up and sign without reading again. She's learning! 4w

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Clare-Dragonfly How did she even almost sign without reading?! She‘d spent all that time thinking about how she wasn‘t going to do what Macaroni said! 4w

mcctrish I mean she can read why does she not read? But as @peanutnine said she has learned one lesson in all this crying and fainting. 4w

TheBookHippie The picture is perfection!!!!! 4w

BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie #ihavemyshinymoments 4w

Bookwormjillk I started reading this chapter about 5 hours ago and just woke up from one of the best naps of my life. I agree with everyone else- Emily read the papers! 4w

TheAromaofBooks She'll read them, faint from horror about what's written on them, and then NEVER TELL US WHAT THEY SAID 😑 4w

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BarkingMadRead

Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier

busted… or is he? #theyknowitsrebecca #theydontsuspectathing #exceptmaybefrank #butletsnotsleeponsassyjan #putdanversinherplace #soproud #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

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5feet.of.fury He certainly didn‘t do himself any favors. They served him a plausible excuse for the initial identification & he brushed it off immediately. Everyone just having an awkward lunch waiting for the other shoe to drop 8mo

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IndoorDame I‘ve been dying for her to snap out of it and act like this with Mrs. D. but did it really take a murder to get her there?! Jan‘s perspective is all out of whack! 8mo

ElizaMarie "I'm afraid it does not concern me very much what Mrs. de Winter used to do," I said. "I am Mrs. de Winter now, you know.” —— ?? 8mo

Clare-Dragonfly So this is what it takes to get Jan to grow a backbone! I know it‘s not really the murder, it‘s the belief that Maxim didn‘t love Rebecca. Her priorities are all out of whack. I wonder what exactly Frank knows, and why he is protecting Maxim. 8mo

Bookwormjillk Life according to the Colonel: Murder ok poetry bad. This is why rich people get away with crimes. 8mo

ElizaMarie @Clare-Dragonfly , I feel like Frank knows pretty much everything. I mean, maybe not the threat of the heir, but Max did it. The secret is safe with Frank, who knows Rebecca's type, her evil, manipulative ways. If he could look the other way as long as he did (unless he just figured it out), he has no plans of coming clean. 8mo

5feet.of.fury Also Maxim‘s obsession with Jan looking young and naive is so icky 8mo

dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly Especially since Rebecca seems to have had a fling with him as well. Maybe he's in love with Rebecca. That would make things even more interesting. 🧐 8mo

willaful @5feet.of.fury Yes. He's never going to allow her to truly mature. 8mo

TheAromaofBooks @willaful @5feet.of.fury - I definitely think it's a strong reaction to how horrible his life was with Rebecca who was “worldly,“ a serial cheater, into drugs, etc. His response seems to have been to find someone as “innocent“ as possible and his fear is that as she learns more of the world she'll become another Rebecca. I think his hellish time with Rebecca has left him unable to see that genuine maturity between two reasonable people leads to ⬇ 8mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) a working partnership that benefits both people. His experience with women seems to be on a “knows nothing“ to “loves to do drugs, sleep around, and rub it in her husband's face“ scale, so while the whole “she needs to stay innocent“ thing does come off kind of creepy, I think he believes he's protecting both himself and the narrator, rather than holding her back. 8mo

5feet.of.fury @TheAromaofBooks I can see what you are saying, makes sense. although we are just taking Max‘s word that Rebecca was all these horrible things… I‘m not sure what to believe from him. If he‘s just told this story now that the murder is out. 8mo

Roary47 @5feet.of.fury Right?! I like your thoughts @TheAromaofBooks in him choosing her innocence because it is the opposite of Rebecca. I want to think the best of Max, but he has baggage. He should not have jumped into his relationship with Jan, but here we are. 8mo

willaful @5feet.of.fury There are some other indications, like her apparent treatment of Ben, and her moves on Frank -- but there too, there's no real evidence is there? 8mo

5feet.of.fury @willaful that‘s true, Frank does strike me as reliable, no hidden agenda towards Jan 8mo

willaful @5feet.of.fury I trust him, but if someone wanted to write an “other side of the story“ for Rebecca, they'd have some plausible deniability. 8mo

TheAromaofBooks @5feet.of.fury - Oooo great point! I guess I am just taking Maxim at face value because the narrator is. But she hasn't actually proven to be a particularly reliable judge of character so far. 8mo

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BarkingMadRead

Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier

Ch 18: Jan grows a pair #soproud #standuptoDanvers #danversloseshermind #sheletsitallout #horrifying #shealmostconvincesJantojump 😳 #noJanno #thatrocketsavedherlife #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

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TheAromaofBooks WHAT EVEN. I've actually read this book before but completely forgot about this creepy scene! 8mo

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BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks omg so creepy and I legit forgot ad well, it‘s been 4 years since I read it and I forgot so much! 8mo

IndoorDame @TheAromaofBooks same!!! This scene never gets any less horrifying or unexpected! Really any of the scenes with Mrs. D. ! 8mo

TheBookHippie I‘ve no recollection of being this creepy although it‘s been a long time since I read it, but yikes. 8mo

daena The fact that Danvers lays it all out there with zero shame and a whole lot of obsessive crazy makes it that much more terrifying. It's like she has nothing left to lose because she's already lost Rebecca. 8mo

dabbe I remembered this scene because of the movie. If you‘ve never seen the 40s version, you should. The pic posted by @BarkingMadRead says it all. It won best picture in 1940, and Olivier, Fontaine, and Anderson (as Danvers) were all nominated for their acting roles. Judith Anderson is absolutely chilling as Danvers. 😱 8mo

BarkingMadRead @dabbe I really want to watch this version! I‘m going to look for it once we are done@ 8mo

dabbe @BarkingMadRead It's free on YouTube right now! 🤩 Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uvgx3NUR0 8mo

BarkingMadRead @dabbe amazing!! Thank you! 8mo

Bookwormjillk Another re-reader who had forgotten this chapter. I wonder if reading a chapter a day makes it more creepy. 8mo

Roary47 Ooo yay thank you @dabbe I thought today was the 19th and I read too far ahead. Ahhh tomorrow is epic and I cant tell anyone. 😭 Ms D needs to chill with her obsessive self. (edited) 8mo

dabbe @BarkingMadRead 😘 8mo

dabbe @Roary47 😘 8mo

Aimeesue @dabbe whoohoo! Thanks for the link! 8mo

dabbe @Aimeesue 😘 8mo

dabbe To me, this feels like the climatic chapter, where the narrator is at her lowest point. Even though she starts of facing Danny, Danvers overwhelms her with her #rebeccarebeccarebecca crap, and Jan descends into darkness, even ready to jump and commit suicide. Then, BAM! A deus ex machina to break the trance of Rebecca with the explosion going off. If that hadn't happened, Jan would have jumped. But of course, there's more to the story ... 🤩 8mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig @Roary47 I read ahead to because tomorrow and the weekend is busy. It's definitely 😲 moment. 8mo

Clare-Dragonfly @dabbe Ooh, thanks! I saved it to watch later—I don‘t want any spoilers! This chapter was sooooo creepy 😱 8mo

KAO @dabbe Thank you for the link to the film! Saving it for after I have finished the book! This is my first time to read Rebecca, so it‘s all new to me—and delightfully creepy at times. 8mo

julieclair This chapter was sooooo creepy, and so well written! DuMaurier was a master! Thanks for the link to the movie @dabbe. I have never seen it and totally want to watch it once we‘ve finished the book. 8mo

julieclair @Bookwormjillk I think you‘re right that reading one chapter a day intensifies all the feels. 8mo

dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly 😘 8mo

dabbe @KAO Yay! Isn't it fabulous? 🤩🤗😀 8mo

dabbe @julieclair 😘 8mo

ElizaMarie Wow!!!! I don‘t even know what to think. Jan is such a kind hearted innocent. I love how she finally tries to be grown up and then that Danny just ugh! Danny has all the evil pent up! She is so malicious! 8mo

5feet.of.fury Mrs D is out of her mind! 8mo

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BarkingMadRead

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman | Thomas Hardy

Ch 7-8: Alec picks up Tess #ofcoursejoanhastoprettyherup #tessdoesntwanttogo #jackisfullywillingtosellheroff #wtf #alectrickstessintoakiss #tessoutsmartshimthesecondtime #soproud #thiscantendwell #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @indoordame @librarybelle @bookwormjillk @currentlyreadinginco @annr @eeclayton @deblovestoread @julieclair @ruthiella @jenniferw88 @dabbe @bklover @julieclair @cuilin @mcctrish @clare-dragonfly @quietjenn @jewright @daisey @covertocovergirl @rubyslippersreads @kao @currentlyreadinginco @kwmg40 1y

Bookwormjillk Tess won that round at least 1y

julieclair I just love Tess. Proud of her. But her family…. Ugh….. 1y

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TheBookHippie #WTAF is wrong with ppl….I also do love Tess. 1y

currentlyreadinginCO I get that Tess just continued to go with Alex rather than going home and it makes sense to me why she did not, but dang, so much may have been avoided by turning around! Although going back to her dreadful family isn't much of an option, either. 1y

currentlyreadinginCO Alec* 1y

Clare-Dragonfly Wow, Alec is even more of a creep than before. Ugh! Is anyone else reminded of John Thorpe from Northanger Abbey? Alec is definitely worse though. (edited) 1y

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BarkingMadRead

Vanity Fair | William Thackeray

Ch 33-34: y‘all. I have so much to say. #lilpittsucksuptomisscrawley #misscrawleylovesjane #obviouslybutemustsendherownson #jimisafavorite #until #pittmakeshimlooklikeanalcoholic #soproud #thepipedidnthelp #peaceoutjim ✌️ #beckyisthetoastofparis #alsoamom #thatsterrifying #misscrawleylosesher 💩 #pittmarriesjane #theyhavetolivewithcrawley #janesmomrulesthemall #didimissanything #whew #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @indoordame @morr_books @cuilin @mcctrish @thebookhippie @allylu @bookwormjillk @julieclair @ruthiella @deblovestoread @eeclayton @dabbe @willaful @rubyslippersreads @librarybelle @covertocovergirl @bklover @riveted_reader_melissa @jamiearc @kwmg40 @thearomaofbooks @daisey @samanne @ann_reads @wordslinger42 1y

TheBookHippie 😱😳👀🤷🏻‍♀️😵‍💫 #myfacereading #beckyisabigWOW 😅😳 1y

BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie seriously though, so much gasping! 😱 1y

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TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead I KNOW!!!! Glad I was alone reading it😅🤣 #loudgasps 1y

dabbe I think Miss Crawley might be dead: “We shall see thee no more. Let us hope that Lady Jane supported her kindly, and led her with gentle hand out of the busy struggle of Vanity Fair.“ Anyone else think this? If so, Pitt and Jane get all the money! 😱

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Bookwormjillk Today I figured out I was a chapter behind. It all makes much more sense now 🤦‍♀️ 1y

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk oh no!! 🤣🤣 1y

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk that was me a few days ago 🤣🤣 the 2 chapters threw me once ( I got interrupted after finishing one and then forgot I‘d only read one 🤦🏻‍♀️) @dabbe I actually felt a bit bad for Miss Crawley getting her comeuppance from Lady Snowden #theresalwaysabiggerbullyinvanityfair 1y

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish that‘s what happened to me too 1y

Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead I was like what do you mean George is dead 🤣😂 1y

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk ahhhhhhhh #spoileralert 1y

Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead spoiled by my own inability to count to two 😂 1y

dabbe @mcctrish I did, too! She was a crab, but in a way, she was comic relief, too. 1y

mcctrish @dabbe if people are only going to like you for your money, make them work for it 😆😆 1y

willaful I am honestly so tired of this family! 1y

dabbe @mcctrish Amen! 🤣🤣🤣 1y

dabbe @willaful I know! They give me the (wait for it) crawlies! 🤣🤣🤣 1y

mcctrish @dabbe 🤣🤣 1y

Cuilin A little late today but yeah #misscrawleyistoast right? Does Becky have a plan or just likes to party? 1y

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Vanity Fair | William Thackeray

Ch 31-32: y‘all. Just when you think Becky can‘t get any worse…. #josisuseless #readytorun #beckyandthosehorses #ladybareacrescouldntgetthem #mademegiggle #thewwyshetreatedamelia #ameliafinalltstooduptobecky #soproud #WHATisinthatletter #ihopewefindout #georgeissafe #untilheisnt #josrunsforit #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

mcctrish 🎶don‘t say I didn‘t, say I didn‘t warn ya 🎶 #poorgeorgefacedowninthemud I laughed out loud several times especially when Isidor thought Jos wanted him to cut his throat #offwithhishead #nopejustthemustachios from now on I‘m trying to work mustachios into regular conversation 🥸 1y

Bookwormjillk Some guys went to war but Jos had to wake up early #ThoughtsAndPrayers 1y

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Cuilin Loved Amelia standing up to Becky. Jos away on a horse. George dead in the mud, how will Emmy survive that? 1y

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk the waking up early 🥴 1y

TheAromaofBooks I was glad Amelia finally stood up to Becky, but there were multiple times I wanted to shake her. Goodness, girl, pull yourself together! Who even knows what she'll do now that George is actually dead! 1y

willaful Yes, nice to see Amelia #growaspine. I hate the thought of Becky still having that letter to torment her with, though. 1y

dabbe The absolute irony just drips off the page: isn't it interesting that George, who was so full of himself and oh-so-handsome, dies with his FACE IN THE MUD and a “bullet through his heart“ because he clearly didn't have one! 1y

BarkingMadRead @dabbe it was kind of perfect 🤣 1y

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A Room with a View | E.M. Forster

Chapter 11: wtf with these pretentious people?!?!? #makelucyoneofus #runlucyrun #charlotteisback #whatcouldgowrong #hotmess #lucytoldheroff #soproud #butthosevyses #horriblehumans #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @librarybelle @dabbe @thebookhippie @mcctrish @crinoline_laphroaig @debinhawaii @morr_books @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @ruthiella @bklover @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @cuilin @peanutnine @julieclair @ravenlee @indoordame @allylu @clare-dragonfly @rubyslippersreads 1y

TheBookHippie OMG these peoples 😵‍💫 1y

TheAromaofBooks It especially blows my mind that Cecil thinks he's the open-minded one for inviting “lower class“ people to come and live there 🙃 *edited because I totally spaced on Cecil's name and put him down as Cyrus* 😂 (edited) 1y

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mcctrish #quotingtheservants the fiasco lives up to his name #donttellmewhattodo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1y

Cuilin @TheAromaofBooks I also try to forget Cecil. 😑 1y

TheBookHippie Priggish comes to mind 😵‍💫 1y

Ruthiella He only sees Lucy as someone to be molded and reflect him back to himself. He does not appreciate her as her own person at all. (edited) 1y

peanutnine So proud of Lucy for telling off Charlotte! How she still manages to meddle when she's not even there baffles me 🙄 1y

Bklover Charlotte needs to stay in her own web. 🕷️🕸️ 1y

ravenlee @TheAromaofBooks he doesn‘t deserve the attention required to keep his name straight. Ugh. 1y

Crinoline_Laphroaig Cecil is such a prig! 1y

dabbe @TheAromaofBooks Probably because Cyrus rhymes with “virus“. 😀 Cyrus Vys. #perfect 🤩🤩🤩 1y

dabbe @Bklover Nice allusion! 🤩😍🤩 Or she needs to start spinning words in favor of Wilbur, I mean George. #thatllneverhappen 1y

Clare-Dragonfly You could have said that every chapter so far! 😂 1y

BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly I feel that in my soul 🤣🤣 1y

Bookwormjillk These people are a trip. Loved Lucy telling Charlotte off. No one reads my mail Charlotte. 1y

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