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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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Clare-Dragonfly My only positive thought with Fosco is that if he likes to hang out with other Italians maybe we‘ll get to see Pesca again! Though TBH he‘s not wrong about morals. Does Marian remind anyone else of Jo from Little Women with all her little masculine traits? I love it. 2d
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mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly both Fosco and #percypig have sliding scale morals so they‘d know. I think Laura will sign because she‘s basically broken too. What is up with Mrs Catherick?! 2d
Bookwormjillk He‘s evil but he also walks around with a cage full of mice. This is such a delightfully weird book. 2d
dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly And if I remember right, Pesca fled Italy for some reason. Wonder if there's a connection there with the evil Count? 🤔 2d
dabbe @mcctrish #percypig 🎯🎯🎯! 2d
dabbe The house is decrepit in some areas, there's a scary lake and dark forest which makes Marian feel claustrophobic, a dog dies that was SHOT!, some of the servants are questionable ... we are not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy! Marian and Laura are away from ALL who care about them, especially the lawyer. They are now completely vulnerable and at the hands of #percypig and #countporkchop 😱 2d
mcctrish That sums it up @dabbe and #countporkchop he shall be 2d
dabbe @BarkingMadRead 🤣🤩🤣 2d
dabbe @mcctrish #pig&pork 🤣 2d
BarbaraJean @dabbe A scary lake that #percypig and #countporkchop casually discuss whether it‘s a suitable location for committing a murder. Because THAT‘S not weird at all. Totally normal. Nothing to see here… (edited) 2d
BarbaraJean @Clare-Dragonfly When Marian says England is “unquestionably virtuous” in not killing “thousands of innocent people on the most frivolous pretexts”—that they are “free from all guilt of that kind”—I just said to myself: “Oh, honey…” 😵‍💫 Fosco ain‘t wrong, that‘s for sure! (edited) 2d
dabbe @BarbaraJean Excellent point and foreshadowing ... I'm loving how Gothic this is--but such better plot over #verdantverdure UDOLPHO! 🤩🤣🤗 2d
ElizaMarie Yall kill me!! #PercyPig and #CountPorkchop --- I can't even!!! 2d
Leftcoastzen So many bad signs , Laura not telling Marian ANYTHING about her husband, the creepy murder talk. #countporkchop and his mouse circus , you can tell #percypig needs money because of the condition of the estate. I keep thinking, don‘t sign Laura, no one around to help Laura or Marian 2d
Morr_Books I'm gonna catch up this weekend and then join the discussions, so feel free to add me! 😀 2d
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julieclair
The mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bonamy Dobre
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Thinking of all my #HashtagBrigade friends today. Took a train ride through the rainforest on St. Kitts. SO much #VerdantVerdure. Just in case you were wondering, I didn't cry. Nor did I faint. 😂
Actually, I enjoyed every minute! As it turns out, #VerdantVerdure is truly quite beautiful! 🙂 @BarkingMadRead

Ruthiella But did you maybe spontaneously compose a sonnet to remark upon its beauty? 😂 2mo
BarkingMadRead I‘m so glad you stayed dry and awake 🤣 2mo
julieclair @Ruthiella Unfortunately, no sonnets spontaneously sprung to mind. 😂 2mo
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julieclair @BarkingMadRead It was a minor miracle. 😂 2mo
TheAromaofBooks If not a sonnet, at least an ode?? Emily managed to work them in even between fainting fits! 😂 2mo
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Since I did not faint, I was unable to compose an ode. 😂 2mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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AllDebooks In the words of Annette, 'such goings on' 🙄 3mo
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mcctrish In the words of me “WTF?!” 3mo
Clare-Dragonfly So, just like with Ludo, we get the Count‘s POV when nothing interesting is going on, and then something happens and we don‘t get to know anything about it. 🤨 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Someone needs to rewrite this book except with the interesting parts actually IN THE STORY 🙄 3mo
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Yes! And leaving out 80% of the #verdantverdure . 3mo
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mcctrish
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Why does it feel like I have been reading this FOREVER?! And how am I not even halfway through?! WT actual F

Bookwormjillk 😂😂😂 4mo
Ruthiella This is why I am not re-reading with you all. It‘s interminable! 😂 Just wait…the whole thing re-boots and it‘s ANOTHER creepy castle and ANOTHER hero. 4mo
dabbe I am now way behind. I also count the pages before I start, and the one that had 30+ chapters just made me go 😳, and that's where I'm at. I don't read the poems, and now I'm skipping the PAGES UPON PAGES UPON PAGES of descriptions of mountains, blah blah, mountains, blah blah, #verdantverdure blah blah, #sublime blah blah ... Emily finally arrives at Udolpho like 250 pages in? 😴 4mo
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mcctrish @Ruthiella NOOOOOOOOO 😩😩😭 4mo
mcctrish @dabbe I don‘t think anyone reads the poems, openers, ballads or whatever they are called😆 if they are supposed to tie in with the non-stop crying I sure as hell can‘t see it. The long chapters really do crush one‘s soul and its so easy to get behind. Just skip ahead - you have missed crying, fainting, the count was stabbed, macaroni is double dealing everyone, the aunt is a bitch, the trees are green, the castle is haunted. 4mo
dabbe @mcctrish You've given me back hours to my life. Gracias. 🤗 4mo
mcctrish @dabbe 🤣 4mo
Daisey I read this a few years ago and had no interest in rereading, but I‘m very entertained by the posts as you all read it! 4mo
mcctrish Oh @Daisey no one should have to suffer through this twice 😆😆 4mo
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