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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bookwormjillk This is not going to end well 6d
dabbe @Bookwormjillk 🎯🩵🎯! 6d
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ElizaMarie Not that I want something bad to happen -- but... something happening might be cool, so #FingersCrossed someone gets a little flesh wound? 6d
Clare-Dragonfly I am worried that someone will get hurt! 6d
eeclayton @ElizaMarie I agree. While I enjoy the character studies, I would love for something to happen already. 6d
ElizaMarie @eeclayton YES!!! I am glad I am not the only one! 5d
Leftcoastzen Made me think of my parents “ hey put that down, you‘ll poke your eye out!” Or in this case , cut your arm off ? Funny/not funny 5d
mcctrish @ElizaMarie while I might have said “oh FFS Mr Poulter that was stupid” you aren‘t wrong about wanting to have something happen. @Bookwormjillk can‘t see this going right 5d
julieclair I have visions of Maggie playing with the sword… 😳 5d
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bookwormjillk I think Tully just likes to have something to be mad about 1w
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk 🤣 for sure! Not happy unless you‘re miserable 🤣 1w
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dabbe New hashtag name: #tetchytully or #testytully Anyone like either? 1w
Bookwormjillk @dabbe #tetchytully because it makes me think of the Teletubbies which adds something to the book 1w
dabbe @Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead I think it's more fun-sounding out loud, too! 🤣 It could even sound like #touchytully! 1w
mcctrish I love it #tetchytully he always has a bee in his bonnet 1w
ElizaMarie Oooo love this @dabbe 1w
Leftcoastzen I just feel Tully is always upset because he‘s not rich , he has just enough money to worry about it . Diverting water from the mill threatens his livelihood. He doesn‘t have enough money to be connected as to advice, is this a good educator? Is this a good lawyer. 6d
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BarkingMadRead
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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TheAromaofBooks Why is everyone in this book so unlikable 😂 2mo
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BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks seriously! She‘s an asshole magnet 🤣 2mo
Cuilin @TheAromaofBooks thank you for saying that I wholeheartedly agree! 2mo
Cuilin The line let me fly with you would have been very sweet and cute if the question had not been “how would you like to be Mrs. Buddy Willard?” and completely erasing her. 😣 2mo
BarkingMadRead @Cuilin everything about this chapter made me want to scream 🤣 2mo
Bookwormjillk Usually I‘m annoyed with her but firmly on Team Ester in this chapter. Was that jerk happy she broke her leg?? 2mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally got that vibe, like he was glad to be able to do some doctoring 🙄 2mo
Cuilin @Bookwormjillk seemed like a metaphor for breaking her, now doesn‘t get to run away!!! 2mo
mcctrish First how does one get well in such an absolutely disgusting sounding place, second who the hell trusts someone to teach them to ski who doesn‘t know how?! Who stepped in front of her? Buddy? Honest to god Ester, stay away from this dumbass (edited) 2mo
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish I read it twice and couldn‘t figure out who stepped in front of her 2mo
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it was the man saying “you were doing fine until the guy stepped in your path” not skied, stepped made me think it was Buddy (edited) 2mo
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish good clue 2mo
willaful I was kind of caught in wondering why Esther seemed more upset about Buddy's hypocrisy than about what happened in this chapter. But maybe she's letting herself realize things slowly because they're so freaking awful. 2mo
Clare-Dragonfly Wow, Buddy is an idiot! He shakes her hand when she comes in, tries to give her an ashtray he made, and then asks her to marry him in the most unromantic way possible?! Not to mention the skiing failure. Esther said in the last chapter that she broke her own leg but Buddy clearly broke it! 😂 2mo
CogsOfEncouragement I‘m enjoying the reading and all of your comments. This is my first time reading, and I‘m glad I‘m among friends to do so! 2mo
ElizaMarie Ugh!!! Buddy Buddy Buddy —- He is such a pompous man. 2mo
AnishaInkspill @BarkingMadRead thanks for tagging me into these posts, this is brilliant as I don't have the to read this this year but i could never get tired of reading this and what always comes to mind is Esther's dry wit. 2mo
DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks 💖I thought I was alone in not liking anyone😂 2mo
dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement 🩶💚🩶 2mo
dabbe This part teared me up: “I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery--air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.“

Wow, can she write.
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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) 2mo
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mcctrish It sure was a fast start 😬 2mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish more happened in this chapter than the whole last book 🤣 It was hard to stop reading! 2mo
TheKidUpstairs One of my all time favourite books, with one of my all time favourite first lines ❤ 2mo
BarkingMadRead @TheKidUpstairs it is truly an epic first line! 2mo
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! 2mo
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 2mo
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 😂😂😂 2mo
Cuilin @dabbe @mcctrish something tells me we‘re not in Lark Rise no more!!! (edited) 2mo
mcctrish @Cuilin 😂😂 2mo
tpixie @willaful interesting about the son. I was just wondering if they were scapegoats or really guilty…. @BarkingMadRead thanks for the article. (edited) 2mo
tpixie @willaful thanks! 2mo
dabbe @Cuilin Hell no! 😱 2mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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AnishaInkspill photo, perfect, v funny 😂 😂 4mo
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Clare-Dragonfly Kind of unsatisfying that Emily doesn‘t have to do anything to get her inheritance… 4mo
Bookwormjillk @Clare-Dragonfly right? All that paperwork with Macaroni for nothing. 4mo
peanutnine I feel like most everything in this book has been a ton of anticipation and buildup with no satisfying pay out @Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk 4mo
mcctrish @peanutnine absolutely so many words and nothing happens besides crying, fainting and things that can‘t be talked about 4mo
Clare-Dragonfly @peanutnine Yup. That‘s why I‘m not expecting any exciting ghost reveal with Ludo. 4mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Ruthiella She never, never, never stops crying…😭😭😭 5mo
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BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella those are all her tears in that picture 🤣🤣🤣 5mo
Ruthiella @BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣 5mo
ElizaMarie I'm behind but I'm gonna catch up tomorrow. Now I know where I should end up!!! 5mo
mcctrish @Ruthiella she is now exhausted by her tears so maybe we can catch a break ( I didn‘t even realize she was crying. Again. ) 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly Macaroni obviously isn‘t going to kill her, because he wouldn‘t inherit her estates (I presume her closest living relative would, and that‘s the mom‘s brother, whom it would be a lot harder to get the property from). But this seems like a lovely place so I‘m suspicious of the niceness. 5mo
Bklover To me this book feels so much like it was written by a man! All the fainting and crying and weak women. And I mean a man back in that time. (edited) 5mo
Bookwormjillk So weird. Glad she made a friend though. Random sea nymph poem inserted here. 5mo
julieclair I‘m glad I don‘t have to “analyze” this book for an English class. I don‘t know what I‘d do about that sea nymph song! 😂 Which, by the way, was sung in the audio version and was completely tuneless!But at least Emily has made a friend. 5mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Bookwormjillk Ha! Perfect! 5mo
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Clare-Dragonfly Barnardine is a total jerk! Oh, I will strongly imply I killed her aunt and then get horribly offended when she thinks I killed her aunt. 🙄🙄🙄 5mo
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly the most bizarre conversation ever 🙄 5mo
mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly Banardo and Annette have a shared ability to say nothing but use a lot of words #bothshouldbeshakennotstirred 5mo
mcctrish And why was dumbass Emily so resistant to walking to where Banardo was minding the gate? #annettegetsherstepsin (edited) 5mo
Bklover @mcctrish 😂😂😂. 5mo
Bklover @BarkingMadRead That IS Annette!! 5mo
BarkingMadRead @Bklover right?!? I can hear her voice in my head whenever Annette talks 🤣 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish 😂😂😂 5mo
Bklover Yes!! Me too! 5mo
TheAromaofBooks My favorite part of today's chapter was when Emily told Annette she needed to stop crying so much 😂 5mo
BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 5mo
peanutnine @mcctrish omg they say nothing but use a lot of words 💯🤣 5mo
mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks the pot calling the kettle black 🤦🏻‍♀️ 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly @TheAromaofBooks Emily is such a hypocrite! 5mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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mcctrish Everything is so halfassed in this story! Nobody ever gets the whole story out, nobody reads the papers before burning, describes what‘s in the frame, figures out who‘s been left for dead, actually kills the person they want dead! I‘m just supposed to be happy there were no tears 5mo
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Bookwormjillk Long line to poison that dude. Also did I miss why she‘s so determined to find Auntie? Auntie doesn‘t like her except for that one sort of compliment that one time. 5mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I have no idea, if I were Emily, I‘d be trying to escape. Forget auntie. 5mo
AllDebooks Radcliffe is overly fond of the word 'wither'. There has been an awful lot of withering lately 5mo
TheAromaofBooks I honestly kind of admired Emily in this chapter - she's completely terrified but still determined to find her aunt and make sure she's okay. And she seems to be fainting more than crying; haven't decided whether or not that's an improvement 😂 5mo
BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks I know, like what‘s worse? The fainting or the crying? At least the fainting takes less time 🤷🏻‍♀️ 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly And then there are the times she almost faints but sits down and breathes through it… 5mo
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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk I‘m sure it will all be fine 5mo
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AllDebooks At least we're picking up pace now. Although I have concerns about Emily's 'free-flowing tears'. Maybe Venice should be on high alert with flood warnings. 🤔 5mo
mcctrish The hashtag #nocrying does not apply, as @AllDebooks says ⬆️ the tears were free-flowing #floodwarningsareineffect at two different parts the way things were being described - coming across the army and the revellers outside the window I honest to god thought Valencourt was going to be part of the group 🤣🤣 that would make this a gothic whatever it is 5mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I 💯 thought so too! Ugh I really thought there was no crying, this is what happens when I start the chapter early and finish it in the evening 🤣 5mo
mcctrish @BarkingMadRead Emily really needs to hydrate 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly In case you wondered whether Montoni married Aunt Scumbag for her money, he apparently doesn‘t even like her! 5mo
dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly If she wasn't such a #scmb, I'd almost feel sorry for her, waiting up for her hubby to come home as he ditches her on their first night at his estate. 😂 5mo
Bklover 😢💦😢💦😢💦🌊🌊🌊 5mo
AnishaInkspill I 😍 the photo 5mo
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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk I'll admit I had to do audio for this chapter. 5mo
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mcctrish This chapter actually worked for me. Auntie makes my head spin with her saying one thing and then taking a 180° 5mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish auntie has things finally getting interesting! 5mo
AllDebooks Finally, something more yhan weeping and walks, walks and weeping! 5mo
Ruthiella @AllDebooks Just wait until she starts spontaneously writing sonnets. (edited) 5mo
CatLass007 Would you please remove me from your tag list for #HashtagBrigade? Everyone is great but I want to cut back on some of my buddy reads. Thanks 😚 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly I had a hard time following all the dialogue in this but I got the gist. Specifically that Auntie is a social-climbing moron. 5mo
dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly Can I add “bitch“ to your most excellent comment? As in #socialclimbingmoronbitch ... #scmb for short (which could also read as “scumbag“). 😄 5mo
BarkingMadRead @dabbe 🤣🤣🤣🤣 5mo
Bklover First of all, why does Valencourt keep showing up like a creeper? He always appears from behind a tree or something. Second, Auntie is a scheming witch but at least she‘s interesting- I think she‘s going to be a fun one to hate! 5mo
julieclair @Bklover I freely admit I am hating Auntie and enjoying it! As @dabbe says, #scmb . 😂 5mo
dabbe @julieclair YES! #scmb You know, it's better just thinking it as “scum“! 🤩😂🤗 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly @dabbe Bahahaha, perfect! 😂 5mo
ElizaMarie @bklover! Yes!!! Such a #SneakySneak didn‘t we learn he has good breeding? Why are you such a #WeirdoCreeper !? 5mo
ElizaMarie Also. I am numb to tears and weeping…. 5mo
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