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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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mcctrish Poor Lucy and whoever has to do the laundry ! Is it time for Tom to go to school yet? 20h
Bookwormjillk Tom needs to go. The drowning fear is weird. I guess there weren't swim lesson in those days. 20h
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Ruthiella Poor Lucy! Such a sweet kid who genuinely loves Maggie. 😢 20h
Clare-Dragonfly Poor Lucy! As soon as she turned up covered in mud I pretty much knew what happened… 18h
ElizaMarie @Bookwormjillk YES AGAIN with the drowning! I mean. they should do a swim lesson here and there to keep this fear at bay. I am so OVER Tom. He is such a jerk. I hate how poor Maggie tries so hard! 3h
Leftcoastzen I was just waiting for something really messy to happen at /near the home of Mrs Clean! Maggie & Tom a handful , poor Lucy ! 3h
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Ruthiella This book is making me tense! 😬😂 2d
mcctrish Fuss farts and nincompoops the lot of them. 2d
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 2d
JenlovesJT47 I‘m going to try to catch up, can you add me to the tag list pretty please 🤗 2d
Bookwormjillk Tom and his punishments…. 2d
Clare-Dragonfly This book is funny but uh… is there going to be a plot or what?! 2d
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2d
Leftcoastzen I‘m with @mcctrish ! 😁yes , not very plot driven so far ! The hat ! The hat ! 22h
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk Tom likes to be in control 😉👮🏻‍♂️ 21h
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bklover I think I‘m going to bail. I keep thinking it will get better, but this just isn‘t doing it for me. Thanks @BarkingMadRead - I want to stay for the hashtags, but I think I‘m tossing this one. I‘ll be back though! 3d
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TheAromaofBooks This is actually interesting to read after Lark Rise to Candleford. I feel like a lot of the things we read about in that book as generalities are happening in this story. 3d
mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks this is the story that goes with Lark Rise‘s accounting lists. Also I‘m some mad at Glegg calling in her money and poor sister Tulliver living in squalor has to figure out some way to magic cost savings out of thin air 3d
julieclair I never could get into Lark Rise… but I‘m liking this book. I keep hoping I‘ll someday finish Lark Rise, but I must admit that hearing that it contains accounting lists is not motivating me, @mcctrish ! 😂 2d
ElizaMarie I‘m glad Tully had a change of heart and not insisted to call in the debt. 8 kids and no money - there is no way sis could have survived - unless she sold the kiddos 2d
Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish I don‘t think Glegg did call in her money. Tulliver is just being excessively proud and trying to pay her back before she does 🙄 2d
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly that‘s the impression I got as well, I was surprised he was going to that much effort 2d
mcctrish @julieclair it just felt like an accounting list 🤣 2d
mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly I thought I‘d missed something with the calling in - so he was just over reacting to his wife talking about it. Thank goodness he didn‘t crush his sister and family #oldladywholivesinashoe 2d
Leftcoastzen I think he has his pride & would like to pay her off . So maybe he could tell her off !😁 Tully saw how tight it was for his sister with all those mouths to feed and couldn‘t do it . I liked the description of the basic poorness of the area as he rides in. Foreshadowing that there isn‘t money to be had . 1d
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Clare-Dragonfly I was thinking P&P too 😂 And I love the shade thrown on sister Glegg‘s clothing. Doesn‘t she know the rule that if you wore it when it was in fashion, you don‘t wear it when it comes around again? 4d
dabbe Maggie cries almost as much as Emily from UDOLPHO! 😂😭😂 4d
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julieclair @dabbe Next thing we know she‘ll start waxing poetic about #VerdantVerdure 😂 4d
julieclair Sister Gregg is on my last nerve. 4d
Morr_Books @julieclair Agree! I did enjoy Mr. Glegg - plus Mr. Tulliver vs. Mrs. Glegg. 4d
Bookwormjillk Some things never change though with the drama about meal times and people refusing to just have a snack for goodness sakes. Or maybe that‘s just my family. 4d
mcctrish Mrs Tulliver hurt her sister‘s feeling wearing her own hair aka Glegg who‘s got her third best fake hair on cuz it‘s a weekday 🤯 which is a wonderful lead up to berating Maggie so much she chops her own hair off just to show Glegg. 🤦🏻‍♀️ maybe she can sell Glegg her hair ? 4d
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish Glegg can suck it! She‘s the worst! 4d
mcctrish Glegg is the worst 4d
Clare-Dragonfly I think Glegg might be a worse aunt than Mrs. Norris. 😱 4d
dabbe @julieclair 🎯🩵🤣 4d
Ruthiella “And uncle Pullet had a great natural faculty for ignorance.” 😂😂😂 “Well, if I may be allowed to speak, and it‘s seldom as I am,” said Mrs Glegg.” (edited) 3d
ElizaMarie @Ruthiella 😂😂😂😂 3d
Leftcoastzen When I was reading all the back & forth with the aunts , I‘m thinking why do they put up with them , especially Gregg . The Tullivers just seem more down to earth. Maggie is a wild one , no doubt. I‘m getting the feeling that Tom will be insufferable after a bit of education 🙄I‘m behind this week .Loving the book though. 2d
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Daisey
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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I‘m a bit late starting, but I got caught up listening to the first few chapters of The Mill on the Floss while taking a walk with Luthien today. I‘m not sure what I think of these two siblings yet, but I‘m looking forward to seeing where this goes.

#HashtagBrigade #audiobook #1001books

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 5d
Tamra 😘 5d
ElizaMarie Awe beautiful walk with a lovely companion 💛💛💛 4d
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bookwormjillk Did Bob cheat or was Tom just mad? I couldn‘t tell. Wish he would go back to school. 5d
Ruthiella Yes! Poor Yap! And that cat! 😭 5d
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dabbe I am not liking Tom at all. So high and mighty and always wanting to exact justice! Maggie adores him yet he abuses her. All of them do, except the father seems to favor her a bit. Childhood can be so brutal. And the animal abuse? Horrific. 🤬 5d
mcctrish This chapter just had me mad, Mr Tulliver telling Mrs Tulliver to invite them all and she‘s like “the work of it, more food to make, leaves for the table, dishes to get out” and no one‘s helping her and none of them get along as he puts on his hat and strides off 5d
rubyslippersreads If there‘s animal abuse (especially cats), I think it was the right choice for me to skip this. 😼 5d
ElizaMarie I hated Tom with his little mind games with his sister here. She adores him. And did everything she thought she could to make him happy - offered him the better piece and everything! Ugh! He is mean. 5d
TheAromaofBooks Honestly both Tom and Maggie scare me in their own ways 😂 5d
Morr_Books I am weirded out by the conversations between Maggie and Tom. It seems more like a marriage than a sibling relationship. 5d
Morr_Books A lot of serial killer tendencies (killing of animals, etc.) with some of these characters. Not at all what I was expecting from this book. 5d
BarkingMadRead @Morr_Books 💯 on both, I definitely wondered about the serial killer aspect 🤣 should be interesting to see how this progresses 5d
Bookwormjillk @Morr_Books yes! Total serial killer vibes! You nailed it. 5d
Leftcoastzen Those boys bring out the worst in each other ! Animal abuse, horrible. 2d
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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Bookwormjillk I don‘t think he was wrong though about the rabbits? Oh well. 6d
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk definitely not wrong! 6d
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dabbe I worry about Maggie. She ignores the rabbits and lets them starve to death and takes out her aggressions by stabbing a doll voodoo-style while in the attic. This can not bode well for her psyche. And Tom loving-hating her within minutes. Granted, what she did to the rabbits was awful, but still. 6d
Bklover @Bookwormjillk @dabbe You‘re right about the rabbits. I‘m even mad at her for that! But I hate all of this “I won‘t love you anymore”. Even mom says it. Anyway. I just wanted to mention the last sentence of the chapter is gorgeous! It‘s the narrator speaking about childhood memories. 6d
BarkingMadRead @Bklover the writing is just beautiful! 6d
dabbe @Bklover 🤩😍🤗 6d
Morr_Books I may have an unpopular view, but I'm kinda on team Tom... for this chapter. 5d
ElizaMarie AND the mom quickly again goes to Maggie Drowned! What is with the drowning, maybe her momma lost her sister to drowning. Or do people just up and drown all the time? Is drowning the new boogieman? 5d
BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie I really hope we get some clarity on this, I need me a good backstory! 5d
mcctrish @Morr_Books I‘m team Tom too! He asked 2 people to check on his rabbits and they both let him down 👎🏻👎🏻 and he‘s not allowed to be upset ( mom is a bit theatrical with the drowning ) 5d
Clare-Dragonfly @ElizaMarie I think it‘s just because they live close to a river, but maybe there is something… 5d
ElizaMarie @Clare-Dragonfly Oo that makes more sense than it being something more nefarious. 5d
Leftcoastzen Why doesn‘t mom just say stay away from the river ! If my mom said stay away from the river , she would have told me why , and I would have stayed away from the river ! 😁 4d
Leftcoastzen I was miffed everyone let Tom down as well , it was a simple ask , Maggie is young but should have been able to look after a couple of rabbits. The parents don‘t look after her , I know people had plenty of work in those days. 4d
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BarkingMadRead
Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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KAO @BarkingMadRead Please add me to the list! Thanks! I am caught up to chapter 4! 7d
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Ruthiella Yes, those poor bunnies. 🐰 💔Also th image of a child driving nails into a doll out of anger scares me a little. 😬 But those were different days. 7d
mcctrish She‘s going to live with her brother so she can keep Tom up to speed in life 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 ( although she forgot to feed his rabbits so maybe he won‘t want her !) 7d
dabbe And it's now the second time the mom has been afraid that Maggie has drowned. Should I be worried about this? 😬 7d
Bklover @Ruthiella Maggie is very entertaining, but I have to admit she scares me a little. I wouldn‘t want to be up in that attic with her! 😬 (edited) 6d
Bookwormjillk Maggie is a little bit scary but I can‘t decide yet if she‘s adorable scary or don‘t leave her alone with small children scary. 6d
ElizaMarie Oh Maggie!!! She is a different one. 6d
Clare-Dragonfly The poor bunnies 😭😭😭 6d
Leftcoastzen I‘m with @Bookwormjillk 😵‍💫so sad about the rabbits. Maggie is baffled by Luke‘s lack of curiosity about the world. I guess he‘s satisfied with his lot. 4d
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