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Tackle the TBR 🤓📚 #boleybooks #angelasashes #frankmccourt #bookjoy #bookbeast #readwithme
What are you reading? 😊

tpixie Yes this has been on my TBR since it was written! 4y

BoleyBooks @tpixie I have had it on the shelf a while...decided it was time. I was expecting it to be a very dark story, but I have been pleasantly surprised by the narrative. We humans are a bunch of strange specimens, and seen through the eyes of a child even more so. 😊 4y

MamaMastracci One of my all time favorites! 4y

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BoleyBooks @MamaMastracci I just saw that there is a sequel called ‘Tis ...have you read it? I guess I will need to get my hands on it soon. 😊 (edited) 4y

MamaMastracci @BoleyBooks Yes, I have! I loved it too. The first time I read it when it was released and I thought it was sad. Then I heard Frank McCourt read some of it and he was laughing about it... all of his troubles in the past. It gave me a new perspective. I read it again with his laughter in mind and thinking- of course all of this happens to Frank. I loved them both. There is a third, Teacher Man. It‘s more about his later life. 4y

tpixie @BoleyBooks oh! That‘s good to know. I think that‘s why I‘ve been hesitant to pick it up. This makes me less afraid! 4y

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GingerAntics

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Frank McCourt

SHAKESPEARE STRIKES AGAIN!!!
He‘s everywhere, and I love him for it!
#FrankMcCourt #angelasashes #shakespeare
🎶 🎵 🎶
Shakespeare all over the world
Join hands
Ride the Will train, the Will train
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GingerAntics @readinginthedark @merelybookish I have just discovered the #shakespearereadalong theme song!!! ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻 You‘re welcome. 6y

readinginthedark 😂💗I love it! 6y

GingerAntics @readinginthedark thank you! I worked very hard on it. It just popped into my head. It seems everything I read (or have read so far this year) has at least one Shakespeare reference. 6y

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readinginthedark That's how I was last year, especially when we were reading Hamlet it seemed! 6y

GingerAntics @readinginthedark I really must have just missed Hamlet. 6y

readinginthedark I'm sorry! It's been my favorite so far. But we couldn't have read many without you...I'll email you a list in the next few days! Maybe we can circle back to favorites or ones people would like to revisit later on or during holiday breaks? 6y

GingerAntics @readinginthedark it‘s okay. I‘ve read it twice before, I recently reread it for fun, and I think @faibka and I are going to read it together since it‘s both of our favourite. Another trip around in a while with the whole group would be cool, though. I always seem to find something new with Hamlet every time I read it. 6y

Faibka @GingerAntics YES! 🙌 👌 and definitely up for a Shakespeare reread! 😃 just give a bit of time while I work through the monstrous read I‘m in the midst of right now 😅 6y

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GingerAntics

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Frank McCourt

🤣😂🤣
#FrankMcCourt #angelasashes #holytrinity
This makes me laugh even more because I used to go to a school called Blessed Trinity. #catholicschool #catholicproblems

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GingerAntics

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Frank McCourt

Your mind is your palace. It‘s a mind palace. Stock all the important things in there and no one can ever take them away from you...and you can be like Sherlock.
#FrankMcCourt #angelasashes #mindpalace #sherlock #belikesherlock

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GingerAntics

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Frank McCourt

🤣😂🤣 I‘m so sorry, this isn‘t funny unless you‘ve been Catholic and had to go through this ritual. I want to go in and out of a confessional now just so I can say it‘s been one minute since my last confession. Should be a nice shock since the first go around it‘ll take be “it‘s been 20 years since my last confession.” 🤣😂🤣
#frankmccourt #angelasashes #confession #firstconfessions #catholicproblems

GingerAntics “Forgive me father, for I have sinned. It‘s been 20 years since my last confession, I think, could be longer. In fact, how much time‘ve you got? You know what, let‘s just cut to the chase. I‘ve done all the sins, accept murder. Totally done all the rest.” 🤣😂🤣 (because I‘m an asshole, @Weaponxgirl @julesG oh my god I love this book!!!) (edited) 6y

GingerAntics BTW, my Irish Catholic Grandmother would have totally done this. 6y

julesG 😂😂😂😂 6y

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BarbaraJean It‘s been probably 20 years since I read this book, but I remember this scene vividly! So hilarious! 6y

Weaponxgirl 😂😂 you sinner you 😂 6y

GingerAntics @BarbaraJean I‘m probably going to remember this my entire life...possibly with my grandmother in the Grandmother‘s role. I read this whole scene to my mother and she was laughing so hard. 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl eh, I think we‘ve all done those. Oh I didn‘t do adultery, either. No murder. No adultery. Done all the rest. 6y

Weaponxgirl @GingerAntics I‘m a sinner through and through! 👹 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl eh, I‘m pretty sure “sin” is some BS made up to make certain people feel self righteous and look down on everyone else. Everybody does bad stuff and everybody does good stuff. As long as you‘re more good than bad I think you‘re doing just fine. 6y

Weaponxgirl @GingerAntics oh I agree and it can be a very narrow way of defining morality. I just know that in some eyes I would be considered a sinner and quite frankly I‘m ok with it. 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl I‘m cool with that. I‘d rather be with the thinking sinners than the non-thinking righteous people. 🙄 6y

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GingerAntics

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Frank McCourt

Next up is this lovely memoir. I‘ve wanted to read it for about 20 years (I can‘t believe it‘s been that long). I recently found out this guy lived in the same part of Ireland my family is originally from, so I now have an even greater interest in it. So, here goes nothing.
#ireland #frankmccourt #angelasashes

Kaye Really GOOD book 6y

RavenLovelyReads One of my favorites!! 6y

GingerAntics @kaye @RavenLovelyReads I once tried to read it back in 2001ish. The only thing I remember about it is that I took it with me to read after standardised testing my freshman year of high school (we were allowed a pencil and a book to read after). I think the stress of ridiculous, pointless testing probably kept me from really being able to read it or much else. I‘m excited to finally give it another try. No idea what‘s taken so long. 6y

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Crazeedi Read it when it first came out, I loved it 6y

JazzFeathers I had the Great opportunity to attend a presentation of McCourt's book at a book fair many years ago. He was such an awesome storyteller. Listening to him was a joy. 6y

GingerAntics @JazzFeathers that‘s the same thing Jeannette Walls said in her introduction. She said to read this book is to hear him speak. I‘m a little half done with this book, and I would gladly sit and listen to him speak all day. Add in a charming Irish accent and my day is complete. I don‘t have a very good Irish accent in my head. I need to work on that. More Father Ted for me!!! 6y

Mindyrecycles HIGHLY recommend the audiobook. McCourt reads it and he sings all the songs. Amazing! Sequels are great also. 6y

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