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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Bookwormjillk That was weird. Sounds pretty though. 2w
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mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it does sound pretty but so far they suck as travellers #itistheirfirstrodeo 2w
peanutnine I always find it odd that the prescription for illness in this time period is so often travel, like travel is the most exhausting thing I don't get it 2w
Clare-Dragonfly I‘m surprised to see both monks and nuns in a convent. I thought they were always sex-segregated. 2w
ElizaMarie @peanutnine yes!!!! I always have to take an extra day off after taking days off from vacation! 2w
Bklover @peanutnine I agree! Not to mention wandering all over the place picking up germs! 2w
Ruthiella @Clare-Dragonfly I think Radcliffe might have just made that up. 2w
AnishaInkspill @BarkingMadRead thanks for the add 😍 these 2w
AnishaInkspill @Clare-Dragonfly me too, I looked this up and found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_monastery , maybe Radcliffe means one of these double monastry ? 2w
AllDebooks Lol, great hashtags 2w
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BarkingMadRead
Dracula | Bram Stoker
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mcctrish So much blah blah blah and then a bloodbath COME ON 1mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I know 🤣🤣 I also used a #blahblahblah pic 1mo
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CatLass007 It was #blahblahblah, wasn‘t it. I don‘t know anything about Bram Stoker‘s opinions regarding women. But Jonathan, Van Helsing, and Lucy‘s former suitors don‘t seem to think much of Mina. They just want to “protect her fragile female sensibilities.” Is Stoker telling his readers that these men are all idiots because Mina has so much more to offer and they‘re not allowing her to make her own decisions? Also, they‘re idiots because they (cont)⬇️ 1mo
CatLass007 don‘t recognize that Mina‘s symptoms are the same as Lucy‘s. I know women had very few rights at that time in history and my perspective is that of a woman living in the early 21st Century. But, wow, these men all need to be smacked up side the head. 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly @CatLass007 Yup. They‘re all congratulating themselves over their great choice keeping Mina out of everything, while completely failing to notice her very suspicious symptoms! 1mo
CatLass007 I‘m doing a little googling to better understand Bram Stoker‘s views on women. https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/scientia/article/view/705hickleberrypunch... 1mo
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KAO
Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Panpan

I don‘t know if I have ever been more relieved to reach the last page of a novel! Truly, if it had not been for the dogged perseverance of @BarkingMadRead and others who offered hashtags that assured me I was not alone in this crazed wasteland of #blahblahblah, I would never—I repeat never—have finished this. Honestly, I enjoyed the last 300 pages more than the first 500–again, a sentence I hope never to write again. My expectations were high…

BarkingMadRead I think you are in good company with this 🤣 he should have just cut to the chase 🤣 8mo
KAO …and high expectations are sometimes the first hurdle for me to enjoy a book. I feel like I just didn‘t get what makes this an extraordinary book that deserves its reputation, and as I read rave reviews on GoodReads or other sites, I think I also just don‘t have solid context (Russian history, culture, literary traditions) to appreciate it. My loss, I guess. In any case, I was determined to finish this, and I thank you all in the group! 8mo
KAO Thanks too @Aimeesue for the remarkable portraits, chapter by chapter! 8mo
Ruthiella Well done! 👏👏👏 8mo
dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 “Hurrah for Karamazov [and the ending of this monstrosity of a book!]!“ 8mo
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dabbe
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Mehso-so

Having gotten through MIDDLEMARCH, ANNA KARENINA--even WAR AND PEACE, I was never so happy to reach 100% on my Kindle. As a former high school English teacher, the one thing I stressed to students over and over when writing was to SHOW and not TELL. Oh, does this novel have too much telling. It's brilliant in parts and overall a compelling story, yet, all that remains in my head is #blahblahblah. Couldn't have finished without the #hashtagbrigade.

TheBookHippie Seriously the blah blah blah 😵‍💫 8mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😃🤗 8mo
Suet624 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
dabbe @Suet624 🤩😂🤗 8mo
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BarkingMadRead
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TheAromaofBooks I skimmed a LOT of this chapter. Haven't we heard all of this already!? 8mo
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AllDebooks Isn't this book over, already? Going round in circles 8mo
BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks @AllDebooks it felt like a cruel joke 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
mcctrish “Reaching this point in his speech, IK, who had plainly opted for a strictly historical method of exposition..” bottom tier Bloom‘s taxonomy- repetition of story - FD doesn‘t think anymore is still with him #idontknowwhyweare 🤣🤣 8mo
Bookwormjillk I couldn‘t sleep at all last night until I pulled out #TheBros. This chapter > melatonin 8mo
dabbe @Bookwormjillk I ended up taking a nap in the afternoon while doing the same thing! 🤩😂😘 8mo
TheBookHippie I had to finish 😵‍💫🤣🤯😳🤷🏻‍♀️😅🤦🏻‍♀️I cannot deal with this one more day. Or bring it into April 😅🤣🤣🤣 8mo
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BarkingMadRead
Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Librarybelle I love how he just keeps going and going and going…if there was a word count need, I‘m fairly sure Dostoevsky hit it about 300 pages ago. 😂 8mo
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BarkingMadRead @Librarybelle so.many.words. 8mo
Bookwormjillk Blah blah blah 8mo
TheBookHippie Charlie Brown teacher speech … wonk wonkwa wonk wonkwa 8mo
dabbe The dude is definitely in love with his own voice and oratory skills. Yowza! 🙄 8mo
mcctrish Again, a chapter just to retell the whole book pertaining to one character. WHY?! SO MUCH BLAH BLAH BLAH ( it‘s cuz no one else in the history of this book actually read all the fucking words like us - we are being punished) 8mo
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Aimeesue
Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Ippolit Kirillovich began his speech for the prosecution feeling chill and fever by turns in all his body. He later described it thus. He considered this speech the chef d‘oeuvre of his entire life, his swansong. To be sure, nine months later he died of an acute consumption, and had he had an early premonition of his end, he really would with justification have been able to compare himself to a swan singing its final song.

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Ruthiella Having read now the entirety of that speech, I‘m not surprised he died soon after. It was EXHAUSTING! 😬 8mo
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mcctrish @Ruthiella it almost killed us so ……. 🤣🤣 8mo
TheBookHippie @mcctrish WORD. 😵‍💫😅🤪 8mo
Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
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dabbe “Blah, blah, blah. I'm the devil. Blah, blah, blah. Devil. No, it's me, but my bad me. Devil. Blah, blah, blah. Throw wine in your face. Blah, blah, blah. Skim .... skim ... blah, blah, blah ... Alyosha to the rescue! End of chapter. #thankgod #ivanandreligion #arantinglunatic #oytothevey as @TheBookHippie would say. Whew. 😥🥱😵‍💫 8mo
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BarkingMadRead @dabbe exactly 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
TheBookHippie @dabbe 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 #wtfwhewoytothevey 8mo
mcctrish I would like to read @dabbe‘s version from here on out 8mo
mcctrish Also so much blah to get to Smerdy and his long game to frame Mitya #holyshitwhensmerdycommitshecommits 8mo
dabbe @mcctrish And he's hanging against his wall on a nail! The wall with 🪳🪳🪳! 😱 8mo
dabbe @mcctrish 🤩😂🤩 It was the only way I could survive that chapter. #lordybe 8mo
Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead gotta admit I was looking for A Christmas Story tongue on the flagpole reference here 🤪 8mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣 #missedopportunity I do have another My Cousin Vinny pic coming up in a few chapters 🤣 8mo
TheAromaofBooks Ivan being like “don't come at me with your philosophy“ SAME 😂 8mo
currentlyreadinginCO Omg we finally get somewhere and now the brother who knows what happened is raving 😂 8mo
mcctrish @dabbe the roaches be having a PARTY tonight 🤢 8mo
mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks 🤣🤣🤣 exactly keep your philosophy to yo‘self 8mo
mcctrish The whole time Smerdy was spilling his guts @currentlyreadinginCO I was thinking “is Ivan processing this? Is Ivan remembering this? Is Ivan sane?” Does it even matter now that Smerdy can‘t be questioned ?! 8mo
dabbe @mcctrish 😳😵‍💫🤢 8mo
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