Litsy

War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky | Leo Tolstoy

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Among other things, on a personal level 2024 will go down as the year I read War and Peace. I did it chapter a day (kind of/theoretically) with the Footnotes and Tangents Substack. I can't say I really loved it, or think it's one of the greatest novels ever, but I'm glad to have read it and found the online discussion and commentary enriching.

Tamra 👏🏾👏🏾 That‘s an achievement! 2mo

AmyG 🙌🏻🎉 2mo

dabbe I felt EXACTLY the same way about this one. #welldone! 🤩🙌🏻🤩 2mo

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Nelnjali

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#HolidayLaughs #WinterGames2024
#XmasChaCha

Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣 3mo

JessClark78 😂😂 3mo

Soubhiville #howtomakeanativityscenebetter #howtomakechristmasmorefun 😆 3mo

dabbe I had to blow up the pic in order to see it! #welldone 🤩😂🤩 3mo

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Bookwormjillk

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Was looking for images for my Halloween aesthetic and found one on Instagram that pretty much sums it up. #HauntedHollowSwap @wanderinglynn

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it! 5mo

PuddleJumper 🤣🤣 5mo

wanderinglynn Love it! 😆🧡💀🖤🎃 5mo

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julieclair Love it! 😂 5mo

BookwormAHN 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5mo

chlolovesbooks Mood 5mo

AshRob22 This kills me 💀😂 #welldone 5mo

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julesG

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

Yes, I've seen all of them. Some of them several times. Three highlights, because favourites are hard to nail down.

Interview with the Vampire - seen on my first student exchange trip to the UK

Terminator 1+2 - first video rental ever

Silence of the Lambs - one of the first films I recorded from TV and then watched obsessively

kspenmoll Impressive! 9mo

dabbe The List Challenge 👑 goes to you! The first 100/100!!! #welldone 👏🤩🤗 Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤩🤩🤩 9mo

julesG @dabbe Thank you! 🤗 9mo

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Leftcoastzen

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My Goodreads stats.Not my best year ever, I had many obstacles to keeping up and felt no shame adjusting the number down a bit, a suggestion from @dabbe Thanks ! 😁Funny that my longest was a reread I adjusted it up for 2024 because I can‘t learn a lesson.Average book, 288 pages.

vivastory Happy New Year, Linda! Hope that 2024 is a bit easier on you 💙 1y

Leftcoastzen @vivastory right back at you! Let‘s hope 2024 is a better one for everybody. I love that you are posting some more lately. 👏 1y

AnnR 90 books is impressive! Well done. 👏🎉 1y

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dabbe You kicked my arse! #welldone! 🤩🤗😍 1y

Ruthiella 90 books is fantastic! 👏👏👏 14mo

TieDyeDude 💪🎉 14mo

Leftcoastzen @dabbe I hope you made your goal ! 14mo

Leftcoastzen @AnnR thanks!my TBR calculator always says I need to live to be 436 years old to finish all the books!😂 14mo

dabbe @Leftcoastzen I read 62/50 books, so yes, I did! Thanks for asking! 🤩😍😘 14mo

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BarkingMadRead

Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell

Chapter 7: the ladies go visiting! #calash #googleismyfriend #bizarrechapter #moreproofmycopyshouldhavecowsonit #sopretentious #whatsupwiththesedanchair #shoulditbeinthehouse #apparentlyso #sobizarre #haveimentionedhowbizarrethischapterwas #nobodydied #hallelujah #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @indoordame @thearomaofbooks @bookwormjillk @wordslinger42 @allylu @alldebooks @eeclayton @ann_reads @kristin_reads @crinoline_laphroaig @mcctrish @kwmg40 @ruthiella @willaful @dabbe @morr_books @aimeesue @librarybelle @daisey @sapphire @vansa @bklover @peanutnine @julieclair @clare-dragonfly @debinhawaii @rubyslippersreads 2y

mcctrish Eating seed cake like a cow 🐮 that certainly sells it 2y

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣 2y

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Clare-Dragonfly Thanks for the visual! I thought this chapter was hilarious. They‘re all so pretentious 😂 2y

Morr_Books @Clare-Dragonfly I agree! This chapter is hilarious! I was laughing right at the beginning when it was mentioned how much they disliked the doctor's name, Hoggins, but that Piggins would have been worse. 🤣 2y

Ruthiella The chapter really does underscore the absurdity of class hierarchies! 😂 Certainly Mrs. Jamison enjoys being a big fish in a very small pond. And of course they ate up all the food not because they were hungry but because they were “too genteel” to point out how low class the spread was by abstaining. (edited) 2y

Clare-Dragonfly I feel like the narrator is telling us all this in a sly whisper out of the corner of her mouth. And she occasionally bursts into giggles because she just can‘t help herself. That‘s why there are so many funerals—so she isn‘t constantly laughing. 2y

TheAromaofBooks I was also confused about the sedan chair being in the house! I always assumed they picked people up outside like a cab?? But apparently not! 😂 2y

Bookwormjillk i also do not approve of capital letters ff 2y

dabbe @Ruthiella a big “snoring“ fish ... 🤣🤣🤣 2y

dabbe I just spit out what I was drinking reading through all of this: y'all were funnier than this chapter, and that's saying something! Starting with you @BarkingMadRead ... #welldone 🙌🤩💚 2y

BarkingMadRead @dabbe #gladwecouldhelp 2y

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BarkingMadRead

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life | George Eliot

Finale: #wrappingupthelooseends #wedidit #wearedone #itdidntkillus #itmayhavecomeclose #welldone #mythoughtsinthecomments #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thearomaofbooks @cogsofencouragement @librarybelle @coffeenbooks @bookwormjillk @samanne @chrissyreadit @eeclayton @caroline2 @aimeesue @deblovestoread @thebookhippie @ravenlee @indoordame @daisey 2y

BarkingMadRead @bklover @kspenmoll @alldebooks @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @addison_reads @kwmg40 @litstephanie @moonwitch94 @larkken @jamiearc @rebelreader @jhod @daena @debinhawaii @melissajayne
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BarkingMadRead I‘ve said this on a few posts by you Pemberlittens, I gave this a pick, but it‘s a soft pick. This could have been so much shorter and still conveyed everything George wanted to convey 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2y

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TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead I agree, was it to make a point? We get it people are insufferable🤣😅😵‍💫👑😅🤷🏻‍♀️🙄😬 #WEDIDIT #WHERESOURTROPHY 2y

BarkingMadRead Ohhhhhhh I want a #participationtrophy #thiswasamarathonnotasprint @TheBookHippie 2y

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead Yes!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆for everyone! We earned them! 2y

ravenlee I think this was an ultramarathon, or one of those endurance trail run things! 2y

BarkingMadRead @ravenlee in the ultra world there is a challenge called the Barkley Marathons. This was a Barkley for sure. 2y

BarkingMadRead @ravenlee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons 2y

Bookwormjillk Congrats all, and thanks @barkingmadread . I liked the beginning of this book so much better than the end. I think soft pick is a fair rating. 2y

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead I agree this was a Barkley 2y

ravenlee Wow, I‘ve never heard of the Barkley Marathons - which is funny, as I married a Barkley (no relation, I think) and my in-laws live in Tennessee. My SIL and her husband frequent Frozen Head on their hiking expeditions. Weird! 2y

Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead the Barkley is wild! 2y

CoffeeNBooks Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about this book at this point. Parts of it were interesting, parts of it weren't. I have a lot of love for many of the classics, but this one not so much. @BarkingMadRead - I agree that Eliot could have made her point with a shorter book. 🤔 2y

TheAromaofBooks I would never have made it through without your hashtags @BarkingMadRead !!! I can see why this has never been as popular as Austen's novels. None of these characters were particularly likable or relatable - definitely don't see myself daydreaming about any of the men I met in these pages! 😂 2y

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks not a Darcy to be found 🙄 I wouldn‘t want any of these dudes 🤣 2y

TheAromaofBooks @BarkingMadRead - Literally none! And honestly I didn't think any of the women were particularly prizes either! 😆 2y

Clare-Dragonfly I guess nobody loves Fred and Mary like I do? 😅 I definitely wouldn‘t say I love this book—Rosamond and Lydgate give me too much anxiety—but Fred and Mary!!! 2y

kwmg40 Thanks for hosting, @BarkingMadRead! I loved the novel, as well as the commentary from everyone here. 2y

JamieArc Congrats to you all! 🎉🎉. I got quite behind when I didn‘t want to take this chunkster on vacation, but I will carry on and look forward to each chapter‘s post as a reward! 2y

BarkingMadRead @kwmg40 hooray!!!!! @JamieArc I wouldn‘t want to lug that thing anywhere either! 2y

Bklover Ahhhh, this was fun! And long. Really enjoyed reading this with all of you. And @BarkingMadRead ❤️❤️❤️❤️🏆 2y

TheBookHippie @Bklover So loooong.. 2y

TheBookHippie @JamieArc the posts are the best part 😅🤫🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ 2y

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Rajea

Fingersmith | Sarah Waters

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" That bitch knew everything"

Rajea I did NOT see that coming👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #welldone 5y

KarenUK Best twist ever! 5y

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SheReadsAndWrites

The Shadow Queen | CJ Redwine

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This was a really fun read. And a brilliant idea for an author to take these classic stories and re-work them. The dragon aspect was great - an all around enjoyable getaway. My favorite kind of book...❤️🤓 This was my choice for Fairytale Re-telling for #Booked2019 #welldone #greatread
@4thhouseontheleft
@BarbaraTheBibliophage
@Cinfhen

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Amandajoy

The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel | Neil Gaiman

I haven't read too much Neil Gaiman, but I have really enjoyed what I have read. I bought this one to support my local indie & help them win a contest. I ended up standing in line for 8 hours to get him to sign my book. I honestly didn't realize how big he was! The man was a rockstar and signed books until 4am. #favoriteneilgaiman #photoadaynov16

CallMeIshmael Actually it's you who is the rockstar, because of people like you who wait in line for 8 hours for an author to simply sign....this makes people want to be authors and write amazing things that we love. So I tip my hat to you! #wellDone 8y

Faibka That's so awesome! 8y

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