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Ch 26: laughing because this is what came up when I tried to google that game Laura was playing 🤣 #uncletomsvisitors #queerfishindeed #peoplewatchingFTW #thatyounghubbythough #catlady #tomgavegreatadvice #eventohimself #shortchapter #hashtagbrigade

mcctrish Best chapter yet and not the game I pictured or what I ever thought it was called 6d
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I‘m picturing one of those wooden boards with divots in them, and you have to try and roll marbles into the divots 6d
mcctrish I was thinking more of the game you get in Christmas crackers made of plastic with little silver balls but of course it would be wood in these Lark Rise times 6d
Bookwormjillk I had that game! That brings back memories of flinging things at my brother. Anyway, good chapter. Love Uncle Tom and the lady with all the cats who thought everyone was out to get her. 6d
willaful @mcctrish That's what I'm thinking. We have (had?) a large one made with mercury, which of course isn't used anymore! 6d
willaful So this chapter referenced Villette, which I guess is a call-out to #LiteraryCrew, which is reading it next. :-) 6d
BarkingMadRead @willaful #hashtagbrigade read Villette a couple years back as well! 6d
mcctrish @willaful I started Villette today on audio ( I am wondering if I should be reading it ) 6d
tpixie Reminds me of Puff n Stuff … 1d
tpixie @willaful fun coinkydink about Villette, just as we are about to read it! Synchronicity 1d
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Ch 13: I couldn‘t find any pics on google that showed #mayday with a #creepydoll 🤷🏻‍♀️ #beautifulchapter #shortchapter #perfectspringday #exceptthatcreepydoll #isaidwhatisaid #hashtagbrigade

Ruthiella Nice and short! 3w
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Bookwormjillk Lol holding the creepy doll up to the window. This chapter reminded me of when certain neighbors turn to our listserve to be cranky about Halloween. According to them the kids never do it right. 3w
AllDebooks Dolls really creep me out 3w
mcctrish I love a short chapter, sucks it was ruined by the creepy doll 3w
TheAromaofBooks I've read about May Day festivities in many old books, but I don't remember ever hearing about a doll before. 3w
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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mcctrish So we are just supposed to forgive Valancourt‘s whoring around?! #boyswillbeboys? Just ugh! The Victorian novelist kills women for less 😡 1mo
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish so frustrating! 1mo
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish I do think the whole point of this book will be we‘re supposed to forgive Val and be happy for Em when she ends up with him. 1mo
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk better a loser than being alone #amiright 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish You‘d think she would have learned from her aunt that a loser is NOT better than being alone! 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly Raise your hand if you didn‘t know it was Valancourt helping Theresa the moment she said she couldn‘t say who it was 🤛🏻 1mo
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly I was torn between him and the creeper, it could have gone either way I guess 🤣 I also half wonder if it was the creeper that got shot as well 🤣 1mo
mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly you‘d think 🤔 😝 1mo
mcctrish Ooo @BarkingMadRead maybe the creeper was shot saving Val once again 1mo
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Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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AllDebooks The whither/thither and hithers are really grinding my gears now. 2mo
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Bookwormjillk Is the count counting the tears? 2mo
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣 2mo
mcctrish I laughed out loud learning that the Count‘s revenge fantasy was fuelled by intel gleaned from Annette‘s “thoughtless prattle” anyone who can follow her circuitous rambling and concoct a plan deserves to succeed 2mo
mcctrish @AllDebooks so much unnecessary language 2mo
Clare-Dragonfly 😂😂😂 2mo
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Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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mcctrish Honest to god I can‘t believe Emily actually managed to get Annette out! So much dithering! Why on earth did she not go find Carlos to start?! Ludicrous lives 🎉because nobody dies. They just cry 2mo
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Bookwormjillk 49% through though. #We‘reGettingThere #MaybeSomethingWillHappenSoon 2mo
Clare-Dragonfly Very confusing, is L dead or not? And also is he a good guy or a complete asshole? Because if somebody needs to stay in a room to protect themselves, seems to me the thing to do is leave THEM the key, not take it away and go join the fighting. 2mo
Bookwormjillk @Clare-Dragonfly woo 🎉🎉🎉 2mo
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The Hotel: A Novel | Elizabeth Bowen
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BarkingMadRead I‘m traveling this week (again!) to Disneyland! I‘m going to read ahead in the airport but my posts may be weirdly timed depending on the plans for the day 🤣 5mo
Cuilin I do love the people watching. Everyone is so self-conscious. 5mo
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Bookwormjillk The people watching is fun. And the overthinking about omelets. 5mo
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk so much omelette angst 5mo
julieclair Poor Miss Pym arrived late and lost her chance at an omelette. She had to eat macaroni from the staff lunch. Such a shame. 😂 I wonder what Mrs. Kerr will have to eat - she arrived even later than Pym! 😬 5mo
julieclair @BarkingMadRead Have a blast at Disney! 5mo
BarkingMadRead @julieclair thank you!! 5mo
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Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell
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Ch 9: why is this who I picture for sweet Mr Benson?! #shortchapter #ruthissick #shecantcatchabreak #bensonisasaint #hashtagbrigade

mcctrish Not only did that stupid entitled manchild leave her without a backward glance, he‘s given her the plague 6mo
Aimeesue @mcctrish Right? Dispicable boy. 6mo
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TheBookHippie @mcctrish BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DID. 😵‍💫 6mo
Ruthiella I‘m picturing Peter Dinklage. I understood dwarf before hunchback… 6mo
mcctrish @Ruthiella I am very pro Peter Dinklage in this role 6mo
BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella ohhhhhhh I love that. Yes! 6mo
TheBookHippie @Ruthiella ohhhhh yes. Good pick. 6mo
Bookwormjillk Did Baby B get her sick or is she just heart broken? I guess we'll find out. 6mo
currentlyreadinginCO Wondering the same! @Bookwormjillk 6mo
Clare-Dragonfly Ahh so perfect! A sweet, generous hunchback! 6mo
julieclair #BensonOfNotreDame is the sweetest, kindest man. 💝 6mo
rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella Perfect casting! 6mo
AllDebooks I'm so glad he now has a name cos I was getting really hacked off with deformed/hunchback. So demeaning 6mo
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Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier
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ElizaMarie 💜💜💜💜💜💜 10mo
Graciouswarriorprincess Please add me. Thanks 10mo
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Ruthiella Very short but not too bad for a dream sequence. I‘m a little nervous about Jasper the dog. I don‘t remember him. 😬 10mo
Crinoline_Laphroaig Such a great opening line. 10mo
BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella I don‘t remember! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 @Crinoline_Laphroaig I love it! @TheBookHippie oh nooooo 10mo
willaful @Ruthiella I don't remember either but according to this spoiler website. it's okay. (Click at your own risk!) https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/20561?index1=-1&index2=-1 10mo
TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead library has it just need to get it to my branch so I should be able to catch up. Supposed to be in by Friday 😅 10mo
IndoorDame Apparently Manderley is based on a house she saw and fell in love with called Menabilly (you can find stunning photos online) and according to what I‘ve read the dream in this chapter could just as easily foreshadow her actual journey with the house, all of which happened after she wrote and published the book. 10mo
Clare-Dragonfly This is gorgeously written! I haven‘t read this before so it‘s all new to me, and I‘m glad to be finally reading it. 10mo
Ruthiella @Clare-Dragonfly Awesome you are reading it for the first time! It‘s a great plot. 10mo
Ruthiella @willaful Thank you! 😊 10mo
Bookwormjillk Woohoo new book! I only have the audio version in my library so I‘m reading it that way. 10mo
dabbe @IndoorDame I read too that she was given a lease by the owner at the time, spent money renovating it, and lived there for 20 years before giving it back to the family. I never knew this, and the last time I read it was in the early 1990s before the Internet. Thank goodness for instant knowledge! 🤩 10mo
dabbe The passage where the narrator talks about the wind coming from the western sea reminded me of Cornwall and the island off of it that is prevalent in AND THEN THERE WERE NONE ... and also P.B. Shelley's “Ode to the West Wind.“ Oh, what a tremendous novel embracing Gothic and Romantic literature from the early 1800s. I'm in heaven! #byebyebadbros 🤩 10mo
5feet.of.fury Add me please 😊 10mo
TheAromaofBooks LOVE how atmospheric this chapter is!! 10mo
IndoorDame @dabbe couldn‘t agree more on both counts! #hailtheinternet #byebyebadbros 10mo
KAO I am excited to start something new! Optimistic here! 10mo
dabbe @IndoorDame 💚🩷💚 10mo
peanutnine This is my first time reading and I'm loving the descriptions so far! 10mo
Roary47 @Clare-Dragonfly I completely agree it is so beautiful already! I‘m also a first time reader with you and @peanutnine it will be fun reading with all of you. 🥰💛 10mo
julieclair Please add me! I was too intimidated to attempt the bros, but now I'm back in the brigade! 10mo
julieclair @IndoorDame Thanks for this great info about Menabilly! My husband and I will be touring Cornwall next month. I wonder if it's visible from the road? 10mo
IndoorDame @julieclair oooh, definitely let us know if it is!!! 10mo
BarkingMadRead @julieclair added you! 10mo
julieclair @IndoorDame Will do! 10mo
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Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
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mcctrish Blah, blah, blah is all I hear 10mo
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Bookwormjillk Short chapters for the win 10mo
Ruthiella I think he did a good job of demolishing the prosecution‘s arguments. 👍 10mo
dabbe De-do-do-do de-de-blah-blah-blah is all I want to say to many long-winded chapters (thanks for the assist, The Police). 😃 10mo
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