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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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mcctrish You know what the say about big thumbs 😉 1mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1mo
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Clare-Dragonfly I dunno if Bob‘s reaction to Maggie is a crush. It reminds me of Bessy in North and South looking at Margaret. (Wow, lots of name repetition!) 1mo
julieclair That was so sweet of Bob! 😍 1mo
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish 😂😂😂big thumbs and a stack of books! 1mo
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk would make me happy 😆😆 1mo
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish perfect really 1mo
Leftcoastzen Maggie & the family ruminate on their limited prospects.Bob is kind to bring Maggie books! Big Thumbs ? Really? 😂 1mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Ch 4.1: that was a lot of beautifully written #blahblahblah #butthisexplainsalot #breakoutthevoodoodoll #hashtagbrigade

mcctrish I thought I‘d accidentally opened a different story on my serial app 1mo
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ElizaMarie @mcctrish EXACTLY 1mo
Leftcoastzen Like sands through the hourglass! 😁 1mo
KAO I kept having to reread sentences, as my mind wandered pitifully during this short chapter. Thank goodness this didn‘t go on longer! I liked the last bit, however, about how the spiritual seed of wisdom didn‘t find fertile ground (or “hooks”) in Mr. Tulliver and simply blew away without taking hold. More foreshadowing, I presume! 1mo
Bookwormjillk I know I read this chapter but I don‘t remember a bit. #MovingOn 1mo
Ruthiella It was a lot of bla bla bla only to show that Mr. Tulliver is unchristian in thought, if not in deed. 1mo
julieclair I listened while driving and admit I mostly tuned it out. 🤣 1mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bookwormjillk 4% though 2mo
Ruthiella I enjoyed the story of St. Ogg. 2mo
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mcctrish @Ruthiella me too 2mo
dabbe The water motif again ... crossing the Floss and making it this time and not drowning. Wonder if this story will be important later. 2mo
Leftcoastzen I liked the story of St. Ogg , #GleggDrama 2mo
Clare-Dragonfly I was reading this in the car on a gray rainy day and it put me to sleep 😴 2mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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mcctrish At least this whole chunk has a point now #godblessuseveryone 6mo
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I was so worried we would never find out 🤣 6mo
Bookwormjillk I'm just so glad Emily appeared and we didn't have a whole new castle story. 6mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk that would have been devastating 🤣 6mo
mcctrish It really could have gone either way at this point 6mo
AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk aaaarrrgggh, can you imagine?? 🫣😱 6mo
Bookwormjillk @AllDebooks yes I actually can that‘s why I was worried 😂 6mo
Clare-Dragonfly I‘m relieved that we made it back to this castle. I spent like 14 chapters wondering when Emily was going to figure out that Udolpho was the creepy castle she saw before. Then I realized it was in Italy so it must be a different castle, and I wondered why they spent so much time being aware of that creepy castle! I also realized that the convent Blanche lived in must be a different one. I think Radcliffe has too many settings! 🙄 6mo
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Bookwormjillk That was weird. Sounds pretty though. 7mo
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mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it does sound pretty but so far they suck as travellers #itistheirfirstrodeo 7mo
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 7mo
Clare-Dragonfly I‘m surprised to see both monks and nuns in a convent. I thought they were always sex-segregated. 7mo
ElizaMarie @peanutnine yes!!!! I always have to take an extra day off after taking days off from vacation! 7mo
Bklover @peanutnine I agree! Not to mention wandering all over the place picking up germs! 7mo
Ruthiella @Clare-Dragonfly I think Radcliffe might have just made that up. 7mo
AnishaInkspill @BarkingMadRead thanks for the add 😍 these 7mo
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 ? 7mo
AllDebooks Lol, great hashtags 7mo
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BarkingMadRead
Dracula | Bram Stoker
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mcctrish So much blah blah blah and then a bloodbath COME ON 8mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I know 🤣🤣 I also used a #blahblahblah pic 8mo
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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)⬇️ 8mo
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. 8mo
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! 8mo
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... 8mo
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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 🤣 1y
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! 1y
KAO Thanks too @Aimeesue for the remarkable portraits, chapter by chapter! 1y
Ruthiella Well done! 👏👏👏 1y
dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 “Hurrah for Karamazov [and the ending of this monstrosity of a book!]!“ 1y
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dabbe
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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 😵‍💫 1y
dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😃🤗 1y
Suet624 🤣🤣🤣 1y
dabbe @Suet624 🤩😂🤗 1y
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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!? 1y
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AllDebooks Isn't this book over, already? Going round in circles 1y
BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks @AllDebooks it felt like a cruel joke 🤣🤣🤣 1y
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 🤣🤣 1y
Bookwormjillk I couldn‘t sleep at all last night until I pulled out #TheBros. This chapter > melatonin 1y
dabbe @Bookwormjillk I ended up taking a nap in the afternoon while doing the same thing! 🤩😂😘 1y
TheBookHippie I had to finish 😵‍💫🤣🤯😳🤷🏻‍♀️😅🤦🏻‍♀️I cannot deal with this one more day. Or bring it into April 😅🤣🤣🤣 1y
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