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ChaoticMissAdventures
Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux
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Pickpick

A gothic thriller on this hint of summer day? Yes please. I really liked the pacing of this, you keep moving quickly forward. The mystery is interesting, but I felt the characters were far away I didn't feel connected or informed about any of them. Overall it is a pick, a quick read for a classic (1910) it kept my attention but I cannot imagine ever reading it again.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux
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The "Opera Ghost" keeps signing his letters OG which has a whole new meaning 100+ years (and American audience) on
Every time I see it I giggle. Ghost is causing havoc like a real O. G. ?

Suet624 😂😂 5h
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TheAromaofBooks
The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Mehso-so

Another classic off the list. I can't say I enjoyed this one. Maggie honestly got on my nerves. I was thinking about it while writing my GR review, because in some ways she reminded me of Helen from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, but I really respected Helen and had pretty much no respect for Maggie, and I was trying to figure out why. I think it's because Maggie's brother is her god. Everything she does is based on whether or not he will approve. ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Except he's a jackass, so the way she followed him around like an abused dog, ever-hoping for head-pats despite only ever receiving kicks was both depressing and irritating. I get that this was a different era and that Eliot was making a statement about the position of women at the time, but honestly you have to be stupid to worship Tom. I actually think that I wouldn't have minded Maggie's decisions if I ever remotely felt like she was ⬇ 9h
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) making them for herself, or even (like Helen) due to a true religious conviction. But it all just came back to her obnoxious brother who actually couldn't care less about Maggie or what happened to her so.

Between this and Middlemarch, I've had enough of George Eliot to last me probably forever, but I genuinely appreciate @BarkingMadRead helping me plow through yet another classic I probably would have given up on my own! 😂
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eeclayton Couldn't agree more. I also have no idea what she saw in Stephen. He's a selfish and arrogant emotional blackmailer. 9h
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TheAromaofBooks @eeclayton - I could at least see the whole young love thing where you meet someone and don't notice their negative qualities yet because you're caught up in the fizz, especially in Maggie's situation where she is so desperate for attention and affection. Like long-term if they got married it would have been terrible because he sucked, but her short-term infatuation kind of made sense. But to still think Tom is perfect after all these years...!!!! 9h
dabbe A 🎯🩵🎯 review. Stephen also reminded me of Heathcliff in WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Way too angsty and Byronic-heroey for my taste! 🤣 8h
Clare-Dragonfly I was thinking the same thing about having had enough of Eliot! Disappointing, because I think she was a really cool individual. (edited) 6h
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux
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I have no idea why but I started this book (my first time reading it) and I had a visceral memory of my mom watching this Beauty and the Beast show when I was a kid. The show ran from 1987-90 and I remember it being unhinged. Does anyone else remember this show??

ChaoticMissAdventures Plot: District attorney Catherine Chandler, after being attacked and left for dead, is rescued by a half-man/half-beast named Vincent who lives in secret caves and tunnels beneath New York City. When Catherine returns to the surface to resume her life, she and Vincent are not only in love, but share a powerful psychic bond that enables Vincent to sense whenever Catherine is in danger. 9h
TheLudicReader My bff was in LOVE with this show, which is weird because it's not the sort of show I ever would have thought she'd like. 9h
mcctrish I loved this show 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣 9h
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willaful I watched some of it maybe 10 years ago. So eighties! I did enjoy the romanticism. 9h
dabbe I loved this show, too, but the whole living-in-the-sewers thing kinda creeped me out! 😱 8h
TheKidUpstairs Totally remember this show! I watched it with my mom. 7h
marleed I was obsessed with this show to the point that I actually grieved Linda Hamilton leaving it. I recall she was interviewed a year or so after her departure and asked about those grieving fans. Her reply was essentially get over it, it‘s a tv show. She was obviously speaking to me🤣😢🤣 5h
ChaoticMissAdventures @TheLudicReader @mcctrish @willaful @TheKidUpstairs I am so glad I wasn't having a fever dream and that other people remember this too! 3h
ChaoticMissAdventures @marleed that is so harsh! But sort of fair 😂 3h
mcctrish @marleed it did kind of fall apart just as it got good 3h
ChaoticMissAdventures @dabbe I think this is what reminded me of the show, reading about the phantom living underground! But under a Paris opera house sounds way more chic than in NYC sewers.... 3h
dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures 🎯🩵🎯!!! 1h
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Andrea313
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
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I adore this Reddit user who respects the game so much that they actually have contempt for Isabella, who in their mind should go even harder as a self-serving, social climbing, manipulative grifter. Losing your safety fiancé before securing the rich guy who will actually help you achieve status and wealth? Amateur hour! Anyway, Isabella writes a last-ditch "save me!" letter to Cath who is not buying it one bit and ghosts her former friend. Brava!

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Bookwormjillk
The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Pickpick

This lacked the humor of Middlemarch, but overall I‘m not mad I read it. A light pick. #hashtagbrigade

Bookwormjillk What the heck was that ending? 1d
dabbe @Bookwormjillk 🎯🩵🎯! (edited) 1d
BarkingMadRead That ending 🙄 1d
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Ruthiella Maggie reminded me a bit of Dorothea in her stubbornness / adherence to principles. 1d
Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella I can see that. 1d
mcctrish I‘m not mad I read it, I‘m mad at GE for that ending (edited) 14h
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish It's like George was just ready for it to end 14h
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk exactly! That ending came out of nowhere 🤬 14h
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Deblovestoread
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
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#JumpStartSummer #WrapUp

Having hubby home cuts into reading time. Finished my two buddy reads and progress was made on my audio and ebook but zero progress on my other 2 print books.

Thanks for hosting @TheSpineView

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Texreader
Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens
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These are the books I‘ve been reading for #jumpstartsummer

@TheSpineView

TheSpineView 👍📖📚 2d
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Andrea313
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
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No meme because #TomKitten joined in today to inspect the reading and gave a look which exactly sums up my feelings about the General. The man himself arranges a trip to Woodston to show it off for Catherine but is so domineering that she has no idea what to say, lest she risk his wrath. He also puts down the village, the landscape, and the house itself at every turn and she can't politely contradict him, so really, General, just stfu please. 🙄

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Andrea313
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
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Henry is a total mensch about the whole "Catherine suspected his father of murder thing", which is to say he never brings it up, ever, and is also extra kind to her. This guy rules, I swear. Which is something that could never be said about Isabella, who we learn has gone full-out dirtbag and heartlessly dumped James for...Fred Tilney! Its all kinds of awkward and Catherine can't believe Isabella's behavior, but Eleanor and Henry help her process.

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