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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman | Thomas Hardy

Ch 33-34: it‘s wedding day! #tesswritesaconfessional #angelneverseesit 😳 #thisgirlcantwin #married 👰 🤵 #weddingnightisubercreepy #butdiamonds 💍 #thatnotethough #passiveagressive #theyhearaboutthedairymaids #yallhesjustadude #suicideisnevertheanswer #iwanttohugthemall #confessiontime #angelisntpureeither #didntseethatcoming 😳 #tessconfesses #curtaindrop #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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Ruthiella What‘s up with those portraits? Did we suddenly step into a gothic novel? 1y

BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella right?!? And built into the walls? So creepy 1y

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dabbe I have bad feelings about this. He confesses to his debauchery with a woman, but I don't think he'll be able to forgive her. And his was consensual! There are too many bad omens here: the rain, the rooster (who is white [pure] and red [stained], the guy who knows her that Angel punched, his family not showing up, all the d'Urberville places (isn't there ANYWHERE where their name is not involved?). Tess believes they're on equal footing, but ... 1y

BarkingMadRead @dabbe I know! I feel like it‘s totally snowballing out of control! 1y

Bookwormjillk Another day where it was hard not to read ahead! 1y

Daisey @dabbe So true! The feelings of foreboding just keep piling up. I was surprised by his confession, but it didn‘t at all make me any more hopeful. 1y

Clare-Dragonfly I hate the other dairymaids being so despondent over Angel, especially since earlier it felt like Hardy was encouraging the reader to laugh at their love for him. Now that just feels cruel ☹️ Also, I really wish I knew exactly what Tess said to Angel. She thinks of herself as culpable, so did she spin it to him that way, or did she explain it in a way that makes it obvious to Angel she was raped? 1y

Cuilin @dabbe I think we‘re going to see some double standards here much like the body count discussion today. What makes it worse is that Tess didn‘t consent. 1y

dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly I wonder too if we'll ever know or if it'll be like a Shakespearean scene done offstage. 1y

dabbe @Cuilin Whereas Angel totally did! If he doesn't forgive her ... 1y

currentlyreadinginCO Resisting the urge to keep reading!! What a cliffhanger chapter 1y

KAO After Angel‘s delayed confession (which took me by surprise!), I had hopes that he would be able to better understand what Tess had not been able to talk about (even though she tried to tell him earlier). I fear the worst, however. 1y

Bklover #yallhesjustadude cracked me up! 1y

BarkingMadRead @Bklover #imheretohelp 1y

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VioletCavalier

Dracula | Bram Stoker

#SoaringScores Day 25: #TheHunting

Hunting for vampires! (Closest one I got!)

@crowcah @Cinfhen

Cinfhen #ConfessionTime I still NEED to read this book 🙈I love your cover/edition 5y

CrowCAH The novel that started our modern thinking of vampires! 5y

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Cinfhen

Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls

#SoaringScores #TheHunting I‘m going #OldSchool today...read this story about a boy and his beloved hunting dogs with each of my kids, as assigned reading in fifth grade. It‘s very sad 😢 I teared up each read. What childhood classic makes you #TearyEyed ?!???

CrowCAH

JennyM I just read Charlotte‘s Web with my two and we were all a bit teary in that one. (edited) 5y

Pogue In school we were supposed to read this book. I read the first chapter and stopped, it was already upsetting to me. As a “reward” we got to watch the movie. Not only did I end up crying I had to go to the nurses office, I was crying so hard I threw up. I still can‘t read this book. 5y

TrishB @JennyM that‘s definitely a sad one! But my daughter hated it for obvious reasons! For me Warhorse! 5y

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Centique Anne of Green Gables 😰😰😰 5y

Cinfhen THAT story @Pogue I understand how traumatic that experience must have been. Thanks for sharing 🙃Yes!!!! @JennyM soooo sad 😢 and I‘ve yet to read or see War Horse but I‘ve been told it‘s an #InfiniteTissueRead @TrishB 5y

Cinfhen Hi @Centique !!!!! Miss you!!!! #ConfessionTime I‘ve never read Anne of Green Gables... each time i‘ve started it, I bailed. 🙈 (edited) 5y

Centique @Cinfhen understandable. I read it at about 9, I don‘t know what it‘s like reading it as an adult! Must try one day. Hello to you too! My reading has slowed down a bit this month. 😐#burnout 5y

Megabooks Omg, cried so hard with this one as a kid! I was so sensitive in elementary school and middle school! 😭 5y

Cinfhen @Megabooks and then you choose to become a veterinarian ❤️🙌🏻#KindGentleSoul you are 😘 5y

Cinfhen @Centique are you on summer holiday soon?? 5y

Centique @Cinfhen not until mid December. Our schools stop about a week before Christmas and then off till February. Looking forward to some warmth 🌞🌞🌞 You have any holidays coming up? 5y

Cinfhen Nope!!! The swarm of Jewish Holidays just ended this week @Centique My parents are still visiting but they are currently on a cruise 🚢 My old college roommate is coming to visit in November and another friend is coming over to visit Christmas week. 5y

Centique @Cinfhen I saw you saying about all the cooking and prep that was going on! You deserve some relax time now. Enjoy your friends visit! 💕 5y

CarolynM @Cinfhen @Centique I read all the Anne books in my 20's and loved them (I had a period of catching up all the books I should have been reading during the previous 10 or so years when I read a lot of books that were very age inappropriate😏) My childhood sob-my-heart-out book was

Seven Little Australians

CrowCAH It is a sad tale 😢 🐕 5y

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Marni

Pride and Prejudice | Austen Jane

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Finally read this classic and loved it!!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
#booked2019
#publicdomain
#booked2019fall
#read2019

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

Cinfhen #ConfessionTime I have NOT read this classic 🙈 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Good job! I am so bad at reading classics. Most of the time they just leave me flat. @Cinfhen 5y

Cinfhen Glad to know I‘m not the only one @BarbaraTheBibliophage 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen Definitely not. 🤪 5y

Marni I own the movie and have read Eligible (a retelling) 3 times. Felt I needed to read it. It actually lived up to the hype! I was surprised!! 5y

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KarenUK

Grey's Anatomy 101: Seattle Grace, Unauthorized | Leah Wilson

#LilithJuly #wheredoesthegoodgo
#Notbookrelated but I couldn‘t post anything else for this song.
In my eyes, Meredith & Cristina are one of the best female friendships ever written. Shonda Rhimes is such a great writer of diverse, strong, complex women and I loved watching this relationship grow and change over their 12yrs on screen.
This was THEIR song, and the one they #danceitout to in their last episode together.
https://youtu.be/5UmqhkRvuTY

Cinfhen

LitLogophile Totally agreed!❤️❤️ 6y

Cinfhen #ConfessionTime 🙈I‘ve never watched Grey‘s Anatomy 6y

DebinHawaii Great pick! 😍😍😍 6y

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LiterRohde

Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories | Silvina Ocampo

“What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.”

#WanderingJune | 23: #DontCryForMeArgentina

📷: Made with Typorama

Cinfhen, BarbaraBB

Cinfhen I‘m always creeped out by ventriloquist puppets 😳 6y

Cathythoughts They really scare me too 😱 6y

LiterRohde @Cinfhen @Cathythoughts But it‘s a great quote possibly from the introduction to the tagged book that looks to be a great collection of short stories from an Argentinian author. 6y

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Cathythoughts It is a great quote ♥️👍🏻 6y

Cinfhen It‘s a very good quote - but those puppets still freak me out 😉😜 (edited) 6y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Cinfhen me too Cindy!!! 😱😱 6y

BarbaraBB @Cinfhen @Cathythoughts @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Really? I thought I was the only one!! Those puppets make me angry somehow. I csn‘t even watch Pixar movies like Toy Story #confessiontime (edited) 6y

Cinfhen That‘s actually funny @BarbaraBB it‘s just that ventriloquist dummy that scares that begeebeez out of me🥴 6y

BarbaraBB @Cinfhen 😂 For me it‘s all puppets. Always. 😳 6y

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LMJenkins

Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen

I confess that I‘ve never read ANY of the following: Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights. 😳🤫 #confessiontime

OrangeMooseReads I haven‘t read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights either and I own them both 🤫 7y

Iblu The Italian National Radio was broadcasting a reading of Wuthering Heights and I caught a 🤨 earful of it a few times. Did not like it. So not only I have not read it, I probably never will... 7y

LazyDays Let's just say.... I have a lot of catching up to do🙆 7y

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Clwojick

Love You Forever | Robert N Munsch

#confessiontime I have never been able to make it to the end of this book without tearing up. I buy this book to add into every single baby shower gift I‘ve ever given. Robert Munsch and all of his books will forever have a place in my heart. This was a beautiful book to reread as an adult. #ThrowbackReadathon

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AWahle I got to meet the author when I was pregnant and got a boxed copy signed to my future baby. 7y

Rachel.Rencher Same here 😢 7y

DebbieGrillo You need to read

Someday

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Wbabdullah I bought it for my kids and I always end up ugly crying and sobbing way before the end. Lol. I hardly read it now cuz man...the force is strong with that book. 7y

Lyn-Mara Ditto. 😭 7y

Clwojick @DebbieGrillo thanks! I‘ll stack it! ♥️♥️ 7y

Jerdencon I have cried in the bookstore reading this... and that was before I was a mom! Once I became a mom, I couldn't even get through it without bawling 7y

Velvetfur I've never heard of this book but have been reading a few reviews on here and I'm intrigued 😊 7y

MiyakoBunny I love 💗 This Book 7y

Clwojick @Velvetfur it is an absolute must. ♥️ 7y

ghosthost As long as you‘re living... 💜 7y

Ncostell Can‘t make it through without crying either! 7y

Meeko93 ❤ 7y

Elizabeth2 I love this book, and it makes me cry every time. 7y

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TheOneWomanLibrary

Game of Thrones | George R R Martin

Confession time!

Guess who almost forgot about #socksunday because it was too hot? Me!

Guess who didn't watch #GoT7 tonight because she hasn't seen the show? Me!

Guess who tried reading #got and had a hard time with the voice to get into the storyline? Me!

Guess who #canttakepicturestosavemylife ? Me!

Guess who #thinkstheyrehilarious ? Me!

#bookstagram #book #paperback #confessiontime #gameofthrones #awkwardphoto #booksinbed