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BarkingMadRead
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Cuilin Is this a first time read for anyone? The bath bit was so real. (edited) 2w
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BarkingMadRead @Cuilin this is a first time read for me 2w
mcctrish 43 by 5 blocks is a lot to walk. I love that she was no worse for the wear shoe wise afterwards and that she knows a bath cures everything. I feel like letting Doreen in would have been a bad idea but leaving her outside the door in a puddle of her own vomit is a level of No fucks to give I need to aspire to 😳 2w
mcctrish First time for me 2w
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 2w
Cuilin @mcctrish @BarkingMadRead oh good, I had heard of it, of course, but I didn‘t really know much about it and it‘s turning out to be completely different than what I thought. I‘m intrigued. But also worried. 😟 2w
Cuilin @mcctrish I don‘t know I could‘ve left a friend with a Lenny!! 2w
mcctrish @Cuilin I love it so much - after udolpho and the bros and Lark Rise it just feels like the words are precise and measured and specific and the story just zips right out and grabs me ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 2w
mcctrish @Cuilin Doreen has a bit of Mike Tyson in her, I think she‘s going to be fine 🤣🤣 (edited) 2w
willaful @mcctrish Not so much in New York. Long walks are easy there.

This chapter was disturbing and I kind of wished I was back in Candleford. Doreen could easily have died.
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Cuilin @mcctrish The writing style is so much more accessible, it‘s fabulous because we can focus on the plot, oh and it has a plot. Looking at you Lark Rise. 👀 2w
mcctrish @Cuilin 🤣🤣🤣 2w
BarkingMadRead @Cuilin @willaful I 💯 agree, I don‘t think I could have left her there. She was obviously not in a position to make any kind of decision or to fight back! 2w
mcctrish @willaful sensible shoes for the win 2w
Cuilin @BarkingMadRead @willaful She also asked her not to leave her alone with him!!! (edited) 2w
Librarybelle My first time reading this too, @Cuilin , and it‘s different than what I anticipated. I‘m not sure what I thought this would be, but it‘s just different. However, I‘m liking it so far! 2w
Cuilin @mcctrish I hope so 🤛 2w
Cuilin @Librarybelle I had images of a domestic setting for some reason 🤷‍♀️ 2w
Bookwormjillk I wouldn‘t have left Doreen there, but also I probably wouldn‘t have left the hotel in the first place and just skipped right to the bath. Lenny- what a goof ball. (edited) 2w
Bookwormjillk Also I read this as a teen, so my memory is only foggy and I might be getting details confused with a Christopher Pike book. 2w
DieAReader 🙋🏻‍♀️First time for me. 😱😳Never would‘ve left Doreen like that. I also think leaving her in the hallway like that was both dangerous & irresponsible. The whole situation kinda pissed me off tbh🤬🤷🏻‍♀️ 2w
dabbe This is my first read, but I know a bit about it. Plath died just one month after its publication in the UK. 😟 And it's semi-autobiographical. I'm already noticing so many allusions to death and dying just in the first two chapters. And I'm worried, too, @Cuilin. 😱 2w
tpixie @dabbe @cullin it‘s my first read also. This book is bringing on a lot of feels!! 😅🥺😳 2w
TheAromaofBooks Could you add me to the tag list, please? My copy came from the library - I've never read this one so I have no idea where it's going! 2w
Clare-Dragonfly This is a first-time read for me, too. Our girl is making a lot of bad decisions but she is very young! 2w
ElizaMarie @Cuilin First time read for me --- and The bath bit -- yes! #Truth! 2w
ElizaMarie I mean, I get that Doreen asked her not to leave her - but... also, Doreen is not a good friend either. I mean, leaving your friend and putting your friend in that position to leave you --- it just is all messy! 2w
CogsOfEncouragement My first read. What was in those drinks? I‘m not necessarily holding it against her that she left, because it seems something else was at play. When she was seeing her drink was below the design on the glass, then above it. What was real? Did Doreen really bite his ear? She is super groggy when she leaves Doreen in the hallway, just hungover? or something more? Anticipating not getting answers to any of these questions though. 2w
BarkingMadRead @CogsOfEncouragement so many unanswered questions! We are scarred from previous books 🤣 #zerotrust 2w
tpixie @CogsOfEncouragement that drink level made me think Lenny was over pouring her… 6d
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BarkingMadRead
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Bookwormjillk I‘m worried for our girl. Hard to stop at one today! (edited) 2w
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mcctrish It sure was a fast start 😬 2w
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish more happened in this chapter than the whole last book 🤣 It was hard to stop reading! 2w
TheKidUpstairs One of my all time favourite books, with one of my all time favourite first lines ❤ 2w
BarkingMadRead @TheKidUpstairs it is truly an epic first line! 2w
Clare-Dragonfly What @Bookwormjillk said! 😱 No, no, getting out of the cab to hang out with some guys in a bar is always a bad idea, and going with them to a second location is a worse one! 2w
CogsOfEncouragement This is my first read, and that first line had me googling the Rosenbergs before I moved on to the next. @TheKidUpstairs Such a great opening. I agree @Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk theater traffic is a much better choice. eek 2w
willaful Very nervous.

Anyone else finding the sense of time off? Not quite sure how to describe it but she's apparently in the present at some points and in the past at others and I seem to have missed the transitions. Might be careless reading on my part.

There was some recent news about Ethel Rosenberg's son trying to prove her innocence....
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dabbe @BarkingMadRead #truth 😂😂😂 2w
Cuilin @dabbe @mcctrish something tells me we‘re not in Lark Rise no more!!! (edited) 2w
mcctrish @Cuilin 😂😂 2w
tpixie @willaful interesting about the son. I was just wondering if they were scapegoats or really guilty…. @BarkingMadRead thanks for the article. (edited) 2w
tpixie @willaful thanks! 2w
dabbe @Cuilin Hell no! 😱 2w
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Cupcake12
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This 💕

Ruthiella 👍👍👍 2w
Cuilin Yep!!! Depends who‘s around me. 2w
Aims42 💯💯💯💯 2w
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kspenmoll Perfect!!!! 2w
Leftcoastzen Great point ! 2w
dabbe 🩶🩷🩶 #truth 2w
Read4life 💙🩷💙 Yes!! 2w
willaful YES. 2w
LiseWorks Yes, that's me 2w
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Amiable
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I literally can‘t anymore. 😖

JenReadsAlot Same. 2w
Bookwormjillk Yeah it‘s a lot 2w
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AmyG Yep 2w
Aims42 “Shit show” is now a regular term used in my daily life. Didn‘t used to be, but here we are 😒😖 2w
Susanita My friend who‘s a preschool director is preparing an ICE policy for her preschool. Her PRESCHOOL! 2w
AnnCrystal 🫂💝. 2w
Amiable @JenReadsAlot @Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie @AmyG @Aims42 @Susanita @AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread Knowing that you guys are all out there helps to keep me from tearing my hair out. 2w
melissajayne It‘s been like 2 weeks and I‘m bloody exhausted 2w
TheBookHippie @Susanita we have one here. We‘re all trained. 😵‍💫 2w
TheBookHippie @Amiable he is doing exactly what he said he would do, plus project 2025 -item by item. None of it shocks me -but all of it makes me so incredibly sad that people voted for this, knowing it all. 2w
Amiable @Susanita I work at a health system and have spent the past 2 weeks helping put together the guidelines and procedures for ICE action in any of our hospitals. Being in a blue state with sanctuary cities has put a bullseye on our backs. (edited) 2w
Amiable @TheBookHippie Yep. Not a surprise. But it's still terrifying to have to live through it. 2w
dabbe Shit indeed. He's throwing it everywhere as fast as he can so that we can't even clean up one mess before another is thrown. He. Is. Evil. Period. 🥺🔥🥺 2w
TheBookHippie @Amiable Yup. Not a fan. 2w
TheBookHippie @dabbe it‘s on purpose chaos- so watch what isn‘t being reported. 2w
lil1inblue It's only February. I'm so tired. 2w
Magpiegem @TheBookHippie agreed! @Amiable sending love & strength from your friends in the UK 2w
Suet624 It‘s unreal the amount of damage done… 2w
AnnCrystal I too am grateful everyday that I have found Litsy 📚💝💝💝. 2w
AnnCrystal Right now, the world is all too unreal to rationalize🥺...we're all seem trapped in a horrible story (book/movie). (edited) 2w
Chelsea.Poole Same. @thebookhippie — you‘re right. It‘s part of the plan. Throw so much out there and see what sticks. Keep the media wheels spinning and people exhausted so we get tired and worn down and can‘t pay attention to what‘s happening behind the scenes. It‘s a mess and a shame. 2w
TheBookHippie @Chelsea.Poole Yup. 2w
CoverToCoverGirl Literally the most despised person(s) in the world… and untold damage done. My heart hurts.😢 They will all be on the wrong side of history. 2w
CarolynM It‘s horrible to watch from this distance. I cannot imagine how hard it must be for you. Sending love & hugs. 2w
Anna40 Same here in the schools. Getting ready for ICE. I‘m an EL teacher and one of my Ukrainian kids said yesterday he hopes he doesn‘t get arrested. He‘s 9. 2w
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RedCurly
Unknown Book 6727737 | Unknown Unknown
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dabbe #truth 😂😂😂 3w
Ruthiella 😱 So true! 😂 3w
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AnnCrystal
Batman Begins | Dennis O'Neill
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🦇💝.

Random Batman quote I found on web.

#zeal4batman

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

AnnCrystal I personally never discovered another Hero who highlights this fact better than Batman. 3w
TheBookHippie True words. 3w
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie 🦇💝💝💝. (edited) 3w
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bthegood love this, so true!! 💗 3w
AnnCrystal @bthegood 🦇💖💖💖. 3w
dabbe #truth 🩶🩵🩶 3w
AnnCrystal @dabbe 🦇❣️❣️❣️. 3w
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Cuilin
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TheBookHippie Yup. Eerie right? 3w
Cuilin @TheBookHippie It gave me chills and slight nausea. 3w
TheBookHippie @Cuilin When I did this in 2020 it was so surreal at times I just about screamed. 3w
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Deblovestoread Doomed to repeat history again and again 🤯 3w
Cuilin @Deblovestoread all I could see was the tech bros at the inauguration. 3w
dabbe My brain shut down with all of these horrific folk. 🤬 3w
lil1inblue @Cuilin I want to throw up just thinking of that one picture. 3w
lil1inblue History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme. 3w
Cuilin @dabbe trying to balance, keeping informed and staying sane is proving to be most difficult. 😵‍💫 3w
Cuilin @lil1inblue And that was day 1!! 😮‍💨 3w
dabbe @Cuilin #truth 🩶🩵🩶 3w
tpixie 🩵💙🩵 3w
Nebklvr Sounds familiar 3w
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Lesliereadsalot
Blue Sisters | Coco Mellors
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Bailedbailed

1/3 of the way in and I kept asking myself why am I reading a book about four sisters who do not at all seem real. Lots of people and Jenna loved this book, but I gave up. Maybe it was going to get better? If the characters can‘t come alive for me, I‘m just not interested. Farewell Blue Sisters.

TheBookHippie SOLIDARITY!!!!! 3w
Lesliereadsalot @TheBookHippie @dabbe Is it asking too much for the characters to be a little interesting? 🤔 3w
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dabbe @Lesliereadsalot #truth 🩶🩵🩶 3w
sarahbarnes I felt the same way about the characters in this one. 3w
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Suet624
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The author put this quote both in her novel and in her acknowledgments. It hit me hard each time I read it. A great description of my current understanding of the world.

Leftcoastzen Wow,I‘m feeling it . 4w
dabbe #truth 🩵🩶🩵 4w
sarahbarnes 🩵🩵🩵 4w
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dabbe
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#5JoysFriday @debinhawaii

1. After what was to me one of the worst days in American history this past Monday, the sun did come out the next day. And the next... If you want to hear the best rendition of this song that I have ever heard in my entire life, here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjyy4tYZFDc
2. Litsy and you Littens.
3. Matt. #always
4. Kate. #always
5. Pippa. #always

TheKidUpstairs I just heard Syndie's cover for the first time earlier today. So beautiful, absolute chills 💕💕💕 4w
AnnCrystal 🙏🇺🇸💝💝💝💝💝. 4w
tpixie @dabbe oh my! That brought chills and tears to my eyes!! Her singing was beautiful, and the whole video was just wonderful. Thanks 😊 ( my dad would always say - the sun will come up tomorrow- as a positivity affirmation) 4w
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wanderinglynn Wow! What a gorgeous voice. 4w
dabbe @TheKidUpstairs IKR? Chills and tears for me! 🩵🩶🩵 4w
dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵🩶🩵 4w
dabbe @tpixie Your dad sounds like an amazing man. Chills and tears here, too! 🩵🩶🩵 4w
dabbe @wanderinglynn IKR? 🩵🩶🩵 4w
tpixie @dabbe 🩵💙🩵 4w
Suet624 I just watched the video twice, crying. Thank you. It‘s wonderful. 4w
TheBookHippie Every storm runs out of rain. 4w
TheBookHippie Song… gorgeous. 😭😭😭 4w
bthegood THANK YOU! I needed that🥰 4w
marleed Just a gorgeous rendition and hope that tomorrow comes again in 2028 🥰 4w
dabbe @Suet624 I keep watching it, too. It brings me hope. 🩵🩶🩵 4w
dabbe @TheBookHippie #truth 🩵🩶🩵 4w
dabbe @TheBookHippie IKR? 😭🩵😭 4w
dabbe @bthegood I did, too! We're in this together. 🩵🩶🩵 4w
dabbe @marleed #amen! 🩵🩶🩵 4w
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