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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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Bklover Who is the sneaky foreigner who follows porkchop? Hopefully one of the good guys! 6d
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BarkingMadRead @Bklover I hope we find out, there‘s not much left! 6d
Clare-Dragonfly I was highly suspicious that the Count was really a spy back when Laura said it randomly! #yaypesca #waltlauramarianthrouple #changemymind 6d
Bklover @Clare-Dragonfly Laura doesn‘t actually say a whole lot in this book, so it was definitely notable! She‘s generally too busy being fragile 😉 6d
Bookwormjillk Porkchop‘s schedule and his description of the birds had me cracking up. 6d
Ruthiella I read many years ago somewhere that Count Fosco was an influence on the Bond villain, Bloefeld (the one with the white cat). I see the connection. Charming but deadly. Fond of animals. 6d
mcctrish Porkchop laughing at Walt not accepting coffee - the English always pick the wrong thing to be worried about. Yet the Italian played a long con for something Laura would have happily given her aunt - her inheritance and skipped the murder/lock up 🤷🏻‍♀️ 6d
ElizaMarie @BkLover I love your description of Laura #TooFragileToFunction :) I hope this #MysteryMan does something!!! (edited) 5d
ElizaMarie #INeedATwist at the end! 5d
Leftcoastzen #yaypesca I‘m so tired of #countporkchop making their lives miserable. Love the scene where he grows fearful at the Opera ! 5d
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BarkingMadRead
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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mcctrish What would Kryle say if he read the letter ? (edited) 2w
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mcctrish Also #unclenervous is the WORST 2w
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly 🤣🤣🤣 2w
Bookwormjillk Am I the only one that thinks Walter and Marian would make a much better couple? 2w
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally agree, they are much more suited to each other 2w
Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk You are not the only one! 2w
dabbe @mcctrish Such a narcissistic wimp! 2w
dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly Good one! 🤩 2w
dabbe @Bookwormjillk Nope. Laura just lies around, saying “Ah is me.“ She's the typical #damselindistress Marian is so much more interesting! 🤩 2w
Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk Oh, they would be! They work together really well. I suspect it is an Elinor Dashwood and Colonel Brandon type of situation… 2w
mcctrish I ship Waltarian/Marialter completely @Bookwormjillk also @Clare-Dragonfly despite the menacing tone of the letter I did laugh out loud at #manofaction @dabbe I‘d lose my marbles too if no one believed me that I was me especially my stupid fucking uncle but I‘d burn his house to the ground cuz if I‘m dead who can make me pay #letsgohauntunclenervous 2w
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly I thought the same thing 2w
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish dead ladies can‘t do crimes 1w
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk that might be a whole other book 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1w
dabbe @mcctrish I think if we ripped up his drawings/sketches or whatever-the-hell they are, he'd die instantly of an aneurysm. #unclenervousnelly 1w
mcctrish @dabbe we ride at dawn 1w
dabbe @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 1w
BarbaraJean @Bookwormjillk You‘re not wrong about Marian, but according to Walter “the lady is ugly!” 🙄 1w
BarbaraJean @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish @dabbe We have our fanfic title ready: “Dead Ladies Can‘t Do Crimes: We Ride at Dawn.” Who‘s gonna write it? I‘m first in line to read! 1w
Leftcoastzen I‘m so mad at all of them ! #greedyPercy #ManofAction #unclenervousnelly 1w
dabbe @BarbaraJean @Bookwormjillk OMG, this is #perfection! 🤩🤣🤩 I say @mcctrish can start it because she had the best line: “We ride at dawn.“ 🤩 1w
dabbe @ElizaMarie 🤩🤣🤗 1w
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LitsyEvents
Woman in White | Wilkie COLLINS
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repost for @BarkingMadRead:

God forbid he uses actual chapters to make our lives easy 🙄 #thisfreakingguy #anyway take a look at how I divided it up and let me know if it doesn‘t work. I can spread out some of the longer sections an extra day. For the multiple day chapters… they are divided into sections, so the numbers at the end are how many sections each day. Hope this makes sense. Drop your thought below #hashtagbrigade we start Saturday

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BarkingMadRead
The Woman in White | Wilkie Colli
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Wilkie Freakin Collins. God forbid he uses actual chapters to make our lives easy 🙄 #thisfreakingguy #anyway take a look at how I divided it up and let me know if this doesn‘t work. I can always spread out some of the longer sections an extra day. For the multiple day chapters… they are divided into sections, so the numbers at the end are how many sections each day. Hope this makes sense. Drop your thought below #hashtagbrigade we start Saturday

Bookwormjillk How dare you Wilkie. 3w
Librarybelle Wilkie was a strange guy. I‘m happy to go with the consensus of the group. 3w
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Ruthiella Wilkie took a lot of opium. Give him a break. 😂 3w
Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella well that bodes well 😂 3w
julieclair I think you‘ve done a brilliant job trying to wrangle dear Wilkie‘s opium-induced non-chapterism into submission! 👍🤪😂 3w
Bklover I actually followed the plan (I think!). Sounds good to me. Oh, and maybe the opium will make this interesting! 3w
KathyWheeler Can I be added to this event? I‘ve owned this book for years and would like to get motivated to actually read it! 3w
kwmg40 Looks good. I'll try to follow as best I can! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Looks great!! Sooo complicated when a book doesn't have just regular chapters!! 3w
Clare-Dragonfly Eep! I‘ll do my best to keep up! 😅 3w
KAO I don‘t really follow. “March 2-4 5 per day”? Isn‘t this 96 pages for the first section divided by 3 days=32 pages per day? What does “5 per day” mean? Edited: Oh!! This must mean five parts labeled with Roman numerals! I see now. (edited) 3w
KAO I‘m not so sure I‘ll keep up with the rest of the books I have going! I‘ll give it a shot though. 3w
BarkingMadRead @kao that chapter is split into sections, so it‘s 5 sections of that chapter per day. If I split it into pages, it might have us stopping mid- mini chapter. There are 15 mini chapters (edited) 3w
CatLass007 Well thank goodness the free Audible copy has the same table of contents. 3w
BarkingMadRead @catlass007 I had real stress that the different copies would be set up different 🤣#freakingwilkie (edited) 3w
BarbaraJean This looks good to me! Thank you for divvying up all of Wilkie‘s eclectic “chapters” for us! Of course, I still have to check the TOC in my library ebook copy… because I could have SWORN I owned a copy but it is nowhere to be found. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
KAO @BarkingMadRead I get it now! I just finished reading sections 1-5 of the first part this morning. I‘m enjoying it so far! 3w
BarkingMadRead @kao yayyyyyyy 3w
Clare-Dragonfly Are we starting today (Saturday, March 1) or tomorrow (March 2)? 😅 3w
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly ohhhhhh I said tomorrow, so we are starting tomorrow 🙈 sorry y‘all! 3w
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BarkingMadRead
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Cuilin I‘m not sure I want to read anymore but I will. It‘s triggering something. Can you get secondhand melancholy from a book? 1mo
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ElizaMarie The part - “It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.“ - Made me so so sad for her!

@Cuilin I feel a bit of the blahs too after reading this chapter.
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BarkingMadRead @Cuilin @ElizaMarie for sure! It‘s gloomy and snowy here in SC and she‘s definitely got me feeling the blues 1mo
mcctrish This might not be the best book for February blahs - I went outside for the first time in days today. I was putting on a bit of a protest against winter and left to my own devices I could have held out longer but my husband was grousing that we had no apples left for his lunch. Or bananas. Or berries. Anyways I went to the grocery store and I survived. I feel Esther‘s pain. Adulting is hard. I don‘t think electric shock is the answer 1mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish we have like zero food in our house 🤣 I have hated the grocery store ever since Covid, I‘m scarred for life 1mo
mcctrish @BarkingMadRead I want to know why the cashiers don‘t bag groceries for you anymore?! It just makes me lose my mind with rage! I‘m spending $260 on groceries in a store, I could go anywhere, I‘ve chosen this one, appreciate my business UGH 1mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish you need to move to SC 🤣 they bag your groceries and will push your cart to the car and unload them too 1mo
willaful @mcctrish They found out how much they could get away with during lockdown. 🤬 I'll never forget the gas station that had closed down its public bathrooms “for your safety“ but of course didn't require masks. Security theater, so much of it.

This was definitely a depressing chapter. Esther seems pretty seriously mentally ill to me, but damn, shock treatment is a lot before trying something else, *anything* else!
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mcctrish @willaful or how little 😡 1mo
Bookwormjillk This chapter was really hard to take. 1mo
dabbe How does this doc only see her TWICE before recommending shock therapy? Was that the 1st answer in the 60s? A very difficult chapter to read. She reminds me in so many ways of Holden Caulfield. 😞 1mo
Ruthiella @mcctrish The supermarket doesn‘t bag your groceries? They do here in Southern California. We do have to put them on the conveyor belt ourselves. When I was a kid, the cashier also emptied the cart for the shopper. (edited) 1mo
mcctrish @Ruthiella 🤯 I‘m conducting a poll on FB of what stores bag or if anyone even cares 🤦🏻‍♀️ my usual store does bag but I went to a store close to home today instead of the one on the way home from school and no bagging, even though I gave her my bins to load 1mo
mcctrish @dabbe RIGHT? 1mo
ElizaMarie @mcctrish @dabbe @willaful yeah I don‘t think she really needs ECT (I have treated patients pre and post ECT and—- try something first! ) like 2 doc appointments and they already gave up!? (edited) 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly Yikes, as I expected—the shrink sucks. Going straight to electric shocks is not wise! Do you really think she‘s going to Chicago? There was something about a stop two blocks from her house. Sadly I just don‘t think she has the chutzpah to do something so bold. 1mo
CogsOfEncouragement I finished this chapter after a short walk in the sunshine. Very helpful. 1mo
julieclair This chapter made me so sad. Her depression, the shock treatment, the overall feeling of flatness. Just sad. 1mo
tpixie @julieclair yes a very sad chapter. @Cuilin here story and the horrible treatments We still are behind the eight ball 🎱 in testing depression. @dabbe I live in Kansas & the groceries here bagged ( for free) and they will take out your groceries to your car, if you‘d like. (edited) 3w
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BarkingMadRead
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Cuilin That ending was a bit underwhelming. I would also give it a soft pick as a novel, but the amateur historian in me #FullSend I‘m definitely gonna check out the TV series. 1mo
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mcctrish I am happy to be out of this #underwhelmedonallcounts what happened to Laura? Not even flora cares 1mo
Ruthiella I really liked this book a lot! I didn‘t mind that it was slow and plotless. 😆😍 1mo
Bookwormjillk I think this would probably be a better TV show. Was afraid to watch before I finished so I wouldn‘t spoil the ending…but there was no ending? Anyway I would read the phone book with you all so I still enjoyed it for all my complaining. 1mo
rubyslippersreads @Bookwormjillk @cuilin The TV show is great. I‘m still working on the book. Like @Ruthiella I don‘t mind the lack of plot, but I‘m marveling at how they made a series out of this. (edited) 1mo
Bookwormjillk Also Miss Lane gives Misery vibes and I would have liked to hear more about that. #ImYourBiggestFan 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk omg she 💯 does! 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
willaful Also a soft pick for me.

I was just reading some of Flora's history... not only did her favorite brother die in WWI but her son died in WWII. 😭 It was a hard time to be alive.
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Deblovestoread Glad to have read it chp a day. I don't think i would have finished otherwise. I would have liked an epilog with how the rest of Laura's life went. I loved the show and am looking forward to a re-watch starting tonight. 1mo
KAO I really did enjoy this—though I would not likely have made it through without the daily accountability and all of your comments! Thank you! I just started watching episode 1 of season 1 of the 2008 series from PBS—and I can completely understand your frustration if you had seen the series before reading the book! So much drama in episode 1 already! Whoever wrote the script had modern audiences in mind, I‘m sure. 1mo
TheAromaofBooks I did like this but I do wish some of it had been a bit more focused on Laura, as those were my favorite parts. But it was all very interesting - although I'm not sure I would have finished if it wasn't for this group!!! 1mo
dabbe We got the most detailed explanations for pretty much every single thing in Lark Rise and Candleford--plus extreme details for every little thing Laura did, every flower she saw, every game she played, ... yet we don't know why she just up and leaves? #wth? The ending made me go 🤯!!! 1mo
Bklover I actually enjoyed this somewhat, and I‘m glad we read it. Particularly enjoyed reading it with the #hashtagbrigade ! However I will admit that the idea of watching the show now is painful! 😂 1mo
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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk A lot happened today. None of it was related to anything. But you‘re right- a whole darn season. 2mo
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Cuilin @Bookwormjillk a season I‘d watch with popcorn!! 2mo
willaful Team Susie! 2mo
mcctrish I‘m behind because of my obsession with Fourth wing/Iron Flame and then I read this chapter - opening with a death roll, poor choices, pig wash theft ( I don‘t even know what it is but for shame), then spousal abuse and a forerunner for todays political arena where if you yell lies loud and long enough people believe them #goodgrief 2mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I‘m reading Iron Flame right now, although I‘m not getting through it as fast as I‘d like! 2mo
mcctrish @BarkingMadRead I read Fourth Wing basically in a day with a break for sleeping - I‘m taking longer with this one and I‘m almost at the end and now I have slowed down because I‘m afraid of a cliff hanger. I grabbed Onyx Storm from Costco but I have ACOTAR to start and irl book club too so I have to push OS out 2mo
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BarkingMadRead
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Cuilin This chapter helped me understand how they made a tv show. Tommy and Mr William seem good sorts. The Baker family with their 8 kids, Ruby and Pearl! 2mo
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Ruthiella @Cuilin I‘ve not seen the show but have wondered what they might have pulled from the book, what they might leave out, what they might embellish… 2mo
TheAromaofBooks The story about the guy just wandering off for a YEAR?! I need MORE DETAILS on where he was and on poor Mrs. Macey's sketchy missing husband 😂 2mo
willaful Maybe I was spoiled by book 2 but I'm having so much trouble getting interested in this one! Just dying for it to be over already, 2mo
KAO @TheAromaofBooks Agreed! Where in the world was this man for an entire YEAR?! And the mystery of Mrs. Macey‘s husband off with “his gentleman” is very suspicious. I‘m betting we never find out more about these, but I hope I‘m wrong! 2mo
willaful @KAO Any other author, we definitely would. For this one, odds are against us! 2mo
mcctrish Me too @willaful also the abrupt way of introducing characters and then writing “but never fear dear reader, he‘s dead and buried in South Africa “ so I get whiplash 2mo
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks @KAO YES! I have so many questions!! @mcctrish All the death previews are grating on me 😆 2mo
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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk Sewing is hard! 2mo
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Cuilin Edmund is my favorite!!!!!! I laughed so hard at “take up your bonnie bridegroom!” It reminds me of my sister and I quoting Monty Python sketches. (edited) 2mo
julieclair I am hopelessly behind, but please keep tagging me. 🙄🤪💙 2mo
TheBookHippie I highly suggest the illustrated version 😂😂😂😂😂 2mo
Bookwormjillk I feel like this book is getting a lot better. Is it just me? 2mo
willaful @Bookwormjillk It so helps to have an actual narrative and main character!

My heart just broke over her mom seeing her writing as “wasting her time“ when she should be SEWING! I guess it made sense at the time, but how awesome that “Laura“ turned out to be a writer with a zillion editions of her books.
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Ruthiella I really loved the sweet moment with Miss Spencer. 2mo
mcctrish @Cuilin Edmund makes me laugh too 2mo
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it‘s better but it‘s not good 🤣🤣 2mo
BarbaraJean @willaful Yes! An actual main character and additional recognizable characters that sometimes appear in more than one chapter! 😆 I felt the same about Laura‘s writing. 2mo
BarbaraJean @Bookwormjillk I was thinking today that it‘s getting better, so it‘s not just you—but then it also occurred to me that maybe I‘m just used to it now. So I guess I‘m also in agreement with @mcctrish 😆 2mo
Bklover @TheBookHippie I ordered the Illustrated version about a week ago from ThriftBooks. Can‘t want till it gets here. This is, of course, after I purchased a regular copy on ThriftBooks plus a different version from Amazon (I forgot I‘d ordered ThriftBooks) So I now own three copies of a book that I kind of doubt I‘ll read a second time! 😂 2mo
TheBookHippie @Bklover I have done that … more than once 😂😵‍💫🤪 2mo
dabbe I am so glad you posted the Python pic! That's exactly what I thought of when I read that part! 😂🤩😂 And yay to the shorter chapters! Though the next one is looonnnnnggggg. 😱 2mo
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BarkingMadRead
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dabbe Candleford is “civilized,“ which means we won't find Huckleberry Finn there. 😂 2mo
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mcctrish What?! We are finally going to Candleford! #itsamiracle #followtheyellowbrickroad 2mo
Bookwormjillk If you look in the mirror at midnight and say lumber 3 times you‘ll see a ghost. 2mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣👻👻👻 2mo
willaful I always had terrible closet fears, so I really felt for Laura with this one! 2mo
Ruthiella We see in this chapter that hoarding as a pathology is quite old. 😱 2mo
Ruthiella @mcctrish I believe it when I read it! 😂 #wevebeenburnedbefore 2mo
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