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BarkingMadRead
Dracula | Bram Stoker
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TheBookHippie I‘m almost caught up! Loving the re-read and your posts!!!! 🏆🏆🏆 3w
mcctrish It‘s a party. Where we chop off her head and stake her heart. What kind of wine goes with that? 3w
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CatLass007 @mcctrish 🍷🍷🍷😂😂😂 Let‘s not forget Dracula‘s famous quote “I never drink… wine.” 3w
mcctrish @CatLass007 all the more reason to 🍷🍷🍷🤣 3w
BarkingMadRead @CatLass007 @mcctrish 🍷🩸🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
Larkken Poor Lucy. I always liked the follow ups that have her and Mina living happily-ish without all these “helpful” men and their bad parties. 3w
rubyslippersreads @CatLass007 @mcctrish Just because Dracula doesn‘t drink wine, doesn‘t mean we can‘t. 🤣🍷🦇 3w
CatLass007 @rubyslippersreads You said it!🍷Cheers. 3w
Clare-Dragonfly Dracula has his brides, Lucy has her husbands 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
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BarkingMadRead
Dracula | Bram Stoker
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Bookwormjillk That was something. 1mo
SamAnne I‘m going to love this read-a-long! 1mo
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Larkken I‘m loving the Keanu focus to this readalong 😆🧡🧛🏻‍♀️ 1mo
mcctrish Keanu is every man everywhere, rules are only a guide line #karmaisabitch Dracula #youcanhavehimwhenimdonewithhim no sexual tension here 1mo
rubyslippersreads Okay, if I had the power to control wolves just by a wave of my hand, I‘d sure find a way to make a bed the same way. 🤣 1mo
Bklover @mcctrish Definitely sexual tension! Surprised me - thought maybe I imagined that! 1mo
mcctrish @rubyslippersreads or get them to make the bed 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
CatLass007 I‘m enjoying this book more than I expected. I prefer the movie from 1979 with Frank Langella as Dracula. The Coppola film is gorgeous on the big screen but, while I am a fan of Keanu as a human being, I am not a fan of his acting. And Gary Oldman wasn‘t sexy at all. Great actor though. 1mo
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BarkingMadRead
The Hotel: A Novel | Elizabeth Bowen
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mcctrish I honestly feel dizzy after that chapter but my favourite part is “the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon” and I wish Veronica Godspeed #dontletthedoorhityouonthewayout 2mo
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish that was my favorite part too! 2mo
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Bookwormjillk V seems like the type that can only feel good about herself by making others feel bad. 2mo
willaful I found this an absolutely fascinating chapter. Veronica is asking Sydney to help her accept what she thinks is her inevitable dreary lot in life, but refusing to see whenever Sydney suggests to her that it's not and that she has choices. And *she* feels sorry for Sydney! Sydney is in for a world of hurt, most likely, but she has the better chance of actually achieving happiness in her life. 2mo
peanutnine "She did not mind Veronica coming in but wished she did not have to talk to her." #relatable 2mo
BarkingMadRead @peanutnine 🤣🤣🤣 2mo
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BarkingMadRead
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TheBookHippie 😬 #itsfineitllworkout 😵‍💫🫣 12mo
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Bookwormjillk So many things in this chapter. What is Piers up to? Does going to Rome mean becoming Catholic? If so is it really that easy to switch religions like that? #Confused 12mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I wouldn‘t think it would be so easy to switch, but I‘m not sure! Seems a little fickle to me 🤣 12mo
CatLass007 Going to Rome does not mean becoming Catholic. In order for someone to become Catholic they do have to go through some sort of religious training. My Mom was Catholic but my Dad wasn‘t. They started attending a class together in order for my Dad to learn about the religion. My Mom had hoped he would convert but he never did. 12mo
Bookwormjillk @CatLass007 that‘s why I was confused- my husband is Catholic and I‘m not. I‘ve had to do a lot just so we could get married. To think I could have just taken a trip instead 🤣 12mo
Cuilin I was raised Roman Catholic, I guess I‘m technically called a lapsed Catholic but yes, you can convert to Catholicism. It‘s actually pretty easy thing to do. You can take classes but many have converted on their deathbed, Oscar Wilde being one. 12mo
CatLass007 My Mom was 27 and my Dad was 30 when they got married. When I turned 24 Mom said “Congratulations, you‘re an old maid in the eyes of the church!” She then explained that if she had remembered that when she and Daddy got married, all the hoops they had to jump through would have been waived. Craziness. @Bookwormjillk (edited) 12mo
Cuilin The term “going to Rome”, said by an Anglican would mean converting to Roman Catholicism. (edited) 12mo
Cuilin @CatLass007 my in-laws faced the same issue. He had to promise that the children would be raised Catholic. 🙄 12mo
Bookwormjillk @Cuilin thanks! In my Church I‘d have to take 8 weeks of classes, get a sponsor, and go to confession. I like the church and I‘ve been going for 20 years but no thanks to all that! 12mo
Cuilin @Bookwormjillk I hear you. It seems harder to convert in America than it does in Ireland. 🤷‍♀️ 12mo
CatLass007 @Cuilin I didn‘t know that about the phrase “Going to Rome.” Interesting. My Dad had to promise that we would be raised Catholic. I‘m glad he didn‘t have to promise that we would remain Catholic. LOL. My brother hasn‘t attended any church in years. I am a member of a very progressive Presbyterian church. I do like Pope Francis because he doesn‘t seem as rigid as his predecessors. But it‘s really just a matter of degrees, no doctrinal changes. 12mo
Cuilin @CatLass007 agreed re: Pope. I haven‘t attended in years. I miss the community, but I can‘t be part of some thing that excused so much abuse. 12mo
CatLass007 @Cuilin Did you say you live in Ireland? I know in the States we have so many options for the type of community in which we choose to belong. I would imagine in Ireland there would be fewer options. But I never thought about it until just now. 12mo
Cuilin @CatLass007 I grew up in Ireland but now live in New Hampshire. 12mo
CatLass007 @Cuilin I bet that‘s a big difference. 12mo
rwmg For those wondering what the fuss about the Church of South India was about, Wikipedia has some information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_South_India#Origins 12mo
dabbe You'd think I would have looked up some of this stuff since I didn't get it, but no, I had to look up the #pinkblancmange. Perfect photo, @BarkingMadRead. And thanks for the info above, @Cuilin, @CatLass007, @Bookwormjillk, and @rwmg! You save me extra research! 🤩 12mo
CatLass007 @dabbe 📚👍🏾 12mo
Cuilin @dabbe the beauty of buddy reads, right? 12mo
dabbe @CatLass007 🤩🤗😃 12mo
dabbe @Cuilin YES! 🤩🤗😘 12mo
BarkingMadRead @dabbe it‘s funny what attracts our attention 🤣 I had to know what it looked like 🤣 12mo
Aimeesue I would absolutely eat all the currants off that pink blancmange. Looooooove them! 12mo
rwmg @dabbe Pym mentions the S. India church quite often but I'd never been able to find out anything about it before. It was obviously a big deal in high church circles at the time but almost completely forgotten about now 12mo
bthegood @dabbe I also did not look it up but wondered about it - thanks for the info @rwmg - 🙂 12mo
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PagesByTheWater
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The books I ordered online arrived! To be honest, just a tad miffed that they‘re paperback, but that‘s on me for not paying attention while ordering. Time to shelf them!
(EDIT: I don‘t mind paperback books! I just thought that these specifically were hardcover when I ordered them but I was wrong)
#bookhaul #thefinalbookhaul #fornow

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asiriusreader
The Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena
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This may be the hardest thing I've ever done--the 'long-distance' book club I'm in chose this as our current read. Usually we read in chunks and then record our comments on each section before reading on...but this book is so hard to not keep reading!!!! SOO GOOD! #illbeagoodbookclubmemberandputthebookdown #fornow #maybeonetinypeek #😬

morgan_krahn I couldn't put it down!! I would be shocked if you could actually stop reading it! 8y
Bette Yep, this is a page turner...so twisty. 😊❤️ 8y
asiriusreader @morgan_krahn it's so hard to stop...but luckily I just started another page turner! 😉 8y
asiriusreader @Bette yes, full of twists that are throwing me for a loop! And I'm loving it. 😊 8y
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