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The Weird World of Words: A Guided Tour | Mitchell Symons

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
@CBee

Probably #ldf's fallacy that he is best at is the ad hominem attack. The background picture in the image above is every attack #ldf has said against a person or a group. A picture literally is worth a thousand+ words ... and is horrifying.
To scroll through the ENTIRE list (just up until 2021! 😱), go here:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/19/upshot/trump-complete-insult-list...

TheBookHippie LDF 😵‍💫 7h

AnnCrystal 🥺😳🤬😢 what is that teaching about bullying... 5h

Susanita Mind boggling! 3h

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dabbe @TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal @Susanita If he has a presidential library, I hope it's every single one of his evil/hateful/stupid/____ tweets. That's all it should be. Walls and walls of tweets that say more than could ever possibly be said. 2h

TheBookHippie @dabbe I hope it lists everyone gleefully supporting him. 1h

CBee Holy wow. I‘ll pass on reading the list but, I can imagine how long and awful it must be 😳🤯🙁 1h

MemoirsForMe 😳😳🤯🤯😱😱 1h

dabbe @TheBookHippie 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 now

dabbe @MemoirsForMe IKR?🤯 now

dabbe @CBee You'd be right! 🤯 now

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The Crucible | Arthur Miller

#FeelinTheLove
#illicitloveaffair
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Boy was this a powerful one to teach.

AmyG Such an amazing play. (edited) 7h

dabbe @AmyG IKR? And the movie with these two ⬆️ was astounding, too. 7h

kspenmoll Yes yes. We also take a trip to Salem MA to visit the memorial/grave site there. 4h

dabbe @kspenmoll Wish we could have done that! 2h

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The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe

#FeelingTheLove
#hearts
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A Halloween-ey approach.

kspenmoll Such a great story!!!! 1d

lil1inblue Excellent. 😏 1d

dabbe @kspenmoll One of my “Poe“ faves! 🖤🐾🖤 22h

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dabbe @lil1inblue 🖤🩶🖤 22h

Eggs Great image 🖤 🫀❤️ 11h

dabbe @Eggs TY. ❣️❣️❣️ 8h

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#mentalhealthmonday @kerrbearlib
1. Not so great, TBH. I get to have both a colonoscopy AND and endoscopy this Thursday, and since I have diabetes, I get to prep and fast for TWO days instead of the typical one--starting tomorrow. I honestly can't wait for this week to be over.
2. Not so great either. Because of worrying about #1.
3. The alphabet game. I pick a subject (like authors), then I run through the alphabet ... ⬇️

dabbe ... trying to come up with as many names as I can (Albee, Edward, Alcott, Louisa, or even the other way like Agatha Christie). I usually get to around H-M before I'm asleep. 2d

LeeRHarry Hope it all goes ok. I run through places around the world - 10 beginning with A, 10 beginning with B etc, sometimes I take it up to 20. 2d

dabbe @LeeRHarry That's a good one, too! I'll try it. Thanks for the encouragement. I hope so, too. 🩶💚🩶 2d

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AnnCrystal May all go well for you, prayers and good vibes 🙏💝. 2d

Deblovestoread Best of luck with the prep and procedures. Why all the necessary stuff has to be so unpleasant is beyond me. Thinking of you! 2d

TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😝I‘ll be thinking of you!!! Yuk yuk yuk. 2d

BarbaraJean 💜 🤗 Hope all goes well for you and that you're able to find rest and spaces of peace this week. I like that alphabet game and will have to try it! 2d

Librarybelle Thinking of you and hope all goes well! 2d

Kerrbearlib I like the alphabet game, too. Keep us posted with your procedure. I‘ve had an endoscopy before and know how unpleasant they are. I hope it goes well and will be thinking of you! 2d

dabbe @AnnCrystal TY. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @Deblovestoread I tried asking if there was any other way to prep, and the doctor just laughed at me. At least I tried! TY. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Is it Friday yet? I'm trying to think of the most fattening delicious dinner I could possible have. TY. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @BarbaraJean TY. It really helps my mind unwind. I usually choose authors, book titles, music titles, actors/actresses, famous people in general, or movie titles. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @Librarybelle TY. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @Kerrbearlib TY. Fun on both ends! 🩶💚🩶 2d

TheBookHippie @dabbe if I was close I‘d come cook it for you!! 2d

cariashley Ugh, good luck and hang in there. I‘m still a few years away from my first colonoscopy, barring any other issues, and not looking forward to it! 2d

Ruthiella The prep is awful but the drugs are awesome. The best nap I ever had. Plus they gave me coffee and cookies after. Hope it goes well. 🤞❤️ 2d

Lesliereadsalot Having had both procedures, they‘re actually ok. But the prep! Last time I had a colonoscopy, I fainted on the way to the car afterwards, and it turned out I had pneumonia! Hope all goes well for you! 🩷 2d

TheDaysGoBy Good luck! That all sounds dreadful. Wishing you the best 2d

Butterfinger Will be thinking of you. Keep us updated. 2d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Someday I'm gonna come banging on your door, woman! 🤩😂😘 2d

dabbe @cariashley May the days until then be VERY LONG!!! 🤩😂🤗 TY. 2d

dabbe @Ruthiella Hmm, I forgot about that. I did get cookies after the last time I had one (gasp) 15 years ago. I'm long overdue. I just gotta get through the prep! TY. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot You are so right. I've had both before, too. And it is the prep that is just awful. And then to have pneumonia! 😱 You poor thing! TY. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @TheDaysGoBy TY. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @Butterfinger I will, and TY! 🩶💚🩶 2d

tpixie @dabbe @LeeRHarry great getting to sleep ideas!! @dabbe hope prep goes well and thank got for the drugs that let you forget your procedure. I wonder why you need a two day prep because of diabetes…. One day seems long enough! 2d

curiouserandcurioser Thinking of you🫂💜 2d

BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, I‘m supposed to do this and put it off. Prayers for you. 💛 2d

InkedBookworm13 I had a Colonoscopy and Upper Endoscopy last year (I have to get them every 5 years bc of family hx) The prep is always worse than the actual procedures. Wishing you the best 🧡 2d

bthegood Good luck this week - 💕 2d

dabbe @tpixie It's because I'm on a semaglutide, so two days of fasting, still only a 1-day prep. Thank God. TY. 🩶💚🩶 1d

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser TY. 🩶💚🩶 1d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me I hear ya! TY. 🩶💚🩶 1d

dabbe @InkedBookworm13 I'm also supposed to go every 5 years due to family history but have put it off now for 15 years (😱) and am scared. TY. 🩶💚🩶 1d

dabbe @bthegood TY. 🩶💚🩶 1d

tpixie @dabbe oh! Yes it slows down stomach emptying!! Good luck 🍀 fasting is HARD! 1d

dabbe @tpixie I thought as much. I'm already REALLY tired of this liquid diet after one whole day. How spoiled and lucky am I. 22h

DogMomIrene Hope you have a good list of all the rewards you get to enjoy on Friday! 14h

dabbe @DogMomIrene I'm working on it! TY. 🩶💚🩶 8h

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#FeelinTheLove
#gallentinesday
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Cheers ❤️ 🥂 ❤️ 1d

dabbe @Eggs ❣️🥂❣️ 1d

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My Pinterest | Michael Miller

Quite a fun board to do, though I'm wondering how some of these fit me, especially Bellatrix and coke-nose Michelle Pfeiffer from SCARFACE. And Sir Robert? Maybe because I have an entire board labeled “PERCY?“ 😂 Sally's stance has been mine since the November election. MTM? A hero. Gromit? More coffee, please!

Type “Literally my character” into your Pinterest search bar and see what you get…

#literallymycharacter #pinterest @TheBookHippie 💚

TheBookHippie OMG!!!!!! 😮‍💨💀😂♥️ 3d

jenniferw88 I always look forward to your #litsylove letters, and Bellatrix is my favourite HP character, so I can see it, lol! (This may be due to the fact that Helena is my favourite actress) 3d

wanderinglynn This is awesome! 🤩 3d

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BooksandCoffee4Me Oh gosh, I so wanted to grow up into Mary Tyler Moore when I was a teen 😂 3d

dabbe @TheBookHippie 💚🩶💚 3d

dabbe @jenniferw88 I am so behind on my #LL letters! 😱 I promise something soon! I actually can see me as Bellatrix--especially when I taught freshmen all day. 😂 Love HBC, too! 💚🩶💚 3d

dabbe @wanderinglynn I'd love to see yours! 💚🩶💚 3d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me Same. My mom looked a lot like her--even to the thin body-type and 70s work clothes! “Who can turn the world on with a smile?“ 💚🩶💚 3d

TheBookHippie @BooksandCoffee4Me I wanted her apartment!! 3d

BooksandCoffee4Me @TheBookHippie 😂 3d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Hers was the coolest! 3d

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Pride and Prejudice | Austen

#FeelinTheLove
#lovehatepairing
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

These two. 💚🩶💚

Eggs Love them *sigh 3d

dabbe @Eggs Especially these two actors; they were so adorable together! 💚🩶💚 3d

Eggs Weren‘t they just?! @dabbe 3d

LoverOfLearning Juat recently thrifted this book ❤️ 2d

dabbe @LoverOfLearning 🩶💚🩶 1d

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The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger

#FeelingTheLove
#timelesslove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Brilliant! 3d

dabbe @Eggs 💚🩶💚 3d

LoverOfLearning Loved this movie! 2d

dabbe @LoverOfLearning One I need to see! 🩶💚🩶 1d

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The Clue of the Tapping Heels | Carolyn Keene

#weeklyfavorites
@Read4Life

Another Nancy Drew to the rescue! With cats! 😺

Read4life 💙🩷💙 4d

dabbe @Read4life 💚🩶💚 3d

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The Clue of the Tapping Heels | Carolyn Keene

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#NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle
This 1960s version is a classic Nancy Drew mystery that combines over-the-top events with tap dancing and Persian cats thrown into the mix. While some “groovy“ elements may feel dated to modern readers, the page-turning plot and timeless appeal of Nancy Drew as a fearless and intelligent sleuth ensure that the story remains enjoyable for fans of the series. And I am a fan and have been since childhood.

Librarybelle Yay!! 4d

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#5JoysFriday @debinhawaii (thanks for the tag! You, too, @Eggs and @peaKnit! 😘😘😘)

1. Every day that's filled with some kind of love. 🩶🩷🩶
2. Having our dear friend Ann and her lovely greyhound Phoebe over for The SuperBowl. 🏈
3. Matt's stupendous homemade sourdough bread loaves. 🥖
4. Matt. #always ❣️
5. Kate 🐾 Pippa. #always ❣️❣️
Share some joys? @TheLudicReader @PageShifter @Cuilin

kspenmoll 💖💖💖 5d

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 5d

peaKnit Oh, bread! Yum, I‘ve got starter and have been experimenting but this is gorgeous! 5d

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BkClubCare I am happy every ime you comment 🐾 Thank you 5Joys 5d

dabbe @kspenmoll 🩶🩷🩶 5d

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩶🩷🩶 5d

dabbe @peaKnit The starter was a holiday gift; then, I got him THE BIG BOOK OF BREAD from King Arthur for his birthday, and he's been on a baking binge ever since. A wee bit sly on my part. 😂 5d

dabbe @BkClubCare Same here, m'dear. 🩶🩷🩶 5d

AmyG Phoebe is a beauty! I need to get my husband to retire….and cook for me! 🤣 5d

julieclair That bread!!! Yum! 💙 5d

Eggs Very joyful 😄 5d

dabbe @AmyG I gladly sacrifice my nails to wash the dishes and/or put them in the dishwasher. 😂 5d

dabbe @julieclair It was delish--especially as French toast! 🤩 5d

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 5d

AmyG Ha….same. @dabbe 5d

dabbe @AmyG 😘 5d

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The Valley of Fear | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin @LitsyEvents

Hello, Sherlockians~
Just a reminder that the discussion for the 2nd half of THE VALLEY OF FEAR will be NEXT Saturday due to the long weekend. That gives us all more time to finish, too! Have a fabulous and relaxing weekend.

Daisey, erzascarletbookgasm, CogsOfEncouragement, AnneCecilie, Born.A.Reader, Aimeesue, Larkken, Librarybelle, mom2bugnbee, Chrissyreadit, Read4life, StayCurious, Sace, CatLass007, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, eeclayton, dabbe, IndoorDame, kelli7990, TheAromaofBooks, 5feet.of.fury, Tineke, Fr3NcHtOaSt, Blackink_WhitePaper, RayHallucinogen, Pageturner1, PageShifter, AllDebooks, AnnR, kimrenee, aroyse, CrystalE02

kelli7990 Yay! I‘m glad we have more time. I haven‘t started reading the story yet. 5d

Librarybelle I‘m interested to see how this story ends! 5d

dabbe @kelli7990 Yay! I'm glad, too! 😅 5d

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dabbe @Librarybelle Same. I read it years ago but had forgotten basically everything! 😂 5d

eeclayton I got mixed up and finished it last week, expecting the discussion to take place last weekend 😂
Looking forward to everyone's thoughts. 4d

dabbe @eeclayton You're ahead of most of us! I look forward to discussing this one, too. 🤩 3d

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Mutts | Patrick McDonnell

#FeelinTheLove
#valentinesday
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

HVD to those who celebrate. To those who don't it's still a lovely day to eat some chocolate. 🩶🩷🩶

Kerrbearlib That‘s so delightful! 5d

AmyG Ha! 5d

dabbe @Kerrbearlib Being a “crab“ in astrology, I called myself Crabby Abbe as my high school teacher persona! 😂 5d

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dabbe @AmyG 😂 5d

kspenmoll Haha! 🤣 5d

Lesliereadsalot You‘re so funny! 😂 5d

dabbe @kspenmoll 😂 5d

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot I try. 😂 5d

Eggs Sweet! 5d

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 5d

bthegood 💕 😂 5d

dabbe @bthegood 🩶💚🩶 4d

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Tess of the D Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy

#ThreeListThursday #tlt

Finally, a score I can (sort of) live with. I definitely need to up my classics game!
Three favorites include:
1. THE SECRET GARDEN. A favorite since childhood.
2. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. Read this with #hashtagbrigade, and it was my favorite book of 2023!
3. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Since I was required to read it in high school. A favorite to have taught as well.

willaful We share two favs I see. ❤️ 6d

tpixie I LOVED No 1& 2 3 was great also! 🩵💝🩵 5d

dabbe @willaful #greatminds! 🩶💚🩶 4d

dabbe @tpixie 🩶💚🩶 4d

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
New Survey: AP Literature Free Response Titles List #4 (1970-2024)

1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-ap-literature-free-response-titles-list-4
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading or a combo or whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
Tagging some who played last week. 🤗

melissajayne, DGRachel, Kitta, tpixie, AmyG, kspenmoll, thegirlwiththelibrarybag, TheBookHippie, Amiable, Kshakal, PurpleyPumpkin, Texreader, Leftcoastzen, CogsOfEncouragement, Susanita, TheKidUpstairs, TheLudicReader, Deblovestoread, thebacklistbook, SaunteringVaguelyDownwards, JessClark78, Eggs, Bookwormjillk, monalyisha, Billypar, rwmg, vonnie862, Mollyanna, Pogue, TheBookgeekFrau, Catsandbooks, Butterfinger, kelli7990, InkedBookworm13, ImperfectCJ, lil1inblue, willaful, AnishaInkspill, BooksandCoffee4Me

DGRachel I got 15 on this one. I feel like I should return my Literature degree to the university. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 6d

Bookwormjillk 19% again. I‘m consistent with these at least! A Raisin in the Sun and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are two of my favorites ever. 6d

TheBookHippie I made a post. I would like to thank my school library for letting me take stacks of books to detention… 79 😳 (edited) 6d

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Amiable 23 for me. My 3 favorites from this list are “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,“ “A Thousand Splendid Suns“ and “Uncle Tom's Cabin.“ 6d

CogsOfEncouragement 19 this round. My favs are Sense and Sensibility, Secret Life of Bees, and Things Fall Apart. 6d

tpixie 16 A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Secret Garden, & The Scarlet Letter are favorites. I need to read more classics 🩷 (edited) 6d

dabbe @DGRachel Same here. But then if you think just how many books of literature there are, well, we done good! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 6d

dabbe @Bookwormjillk I actually wrote a blackout poem from the first page of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. Such a fave! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 6d

dabbe @TheBookHippie What I wouldn't have given to have hung out with you in high school. 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 6d

dabbe @Amiable A TREE for me, too! I still can't believe I haven't read A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS (on the TBR). UNCLE TOM made me 🤯! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 6d

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Adore all three of these. THINGS FALL APART just about made me fall apart. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 6d

dabbe @tpixie I'm right there with you, m'dear! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 6d

tpixie @dabbe a blackout poem! That‘s amazing!! 6d

dabbe @tpixie 🩶🩷🩶 6d

rwmg 28

I've included throughout this series books I know I've read but remember almost nothing of.

I've tried Tristram Shandy twice but didn't manage to finish it either time so despite being tempted I didn't count it. 6d

peaKnit 19 out 100 felt a little better :) the Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a favorite! I also enjoyed Tess of D‘urbervilles in high school. 6d

PurpleyPumpkin 24/110, not terrible. It never ceases to amaze me how many books there are that I still haven‘t read yet! And there are lots on this list that are on my tbr. 😅So many books, so little time!!!!!📚 6d

TheLudicReader 29/110. What an odd collection of books. I love these lists! 6d

dabbe @rwmg I would have counted it! You suffered through twice; you deserve to! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 5d

dabbe @peaKnit EDGAR is now on my TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 5d

dabbe @PurpleyPumpkin Agree 💯! I wish we could inject ourselves with entire libraries like Neo in THE MATRIX! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 5d

dabbe @TheLudicReader “Odd“ definitely describes these lists! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 5d

peaKnit And the sequel to Edgar is Familiaris- both tomes but so good. 5d

dabbe @peaKnit Good to know! Thanks, m'dear. 🩶🩷🩶 5d

Kitta Only 15! I‘m counting this one although I read it in French

The Stranger

dabbe @Kitta So did I! And was like this throughout the whole book: 😳🤷‍♀️😳! I think it should count double! 😂 5d

PurpleyPumpkin What an awesome idea! All that knowledge at our fingertips. 🤯 5d

staci.reads 28, but some of these I've never heard of 😳. It's hard to pick favorites, but Sing, Unburied, Sing and To Kill a Mockingbird for sure! Probably The Secret Garden next. 5d

dabbe @staci.reads Same here! So many I haven't heard of! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 5d

dabbe @PurpleyPumpkin And we'd be able to gobble up that many more books! 😂 5d

melissajayne 19. Three favourites include: Snow Falling on Cedars, A Tale of Two Cities, Sense & Sensibility 5d

dabbe @melissajayne Thanks to you, SNOW is now on the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 5d

melissajayne @dabbe the movie adaptation is also really good as well. 5d

Kitta @dabbe haha yes agreed!! 5d

dabbe @melissajayne Good to know! Thanks. 🤗 4d

BooksandCoffee4Me 25 read — fun to be reminded of fun classroom memories. I won‘t give titles so as not to spoil endings but one day while reading an Am lit book with my 10th-graders, a kid entered the classroom yelling “Lenny dies!” Part of me was upset that he‘d read ahead and told the class what happens, but the other part of me was thrilled he‘d read ahead because we finally found a book he liked. We all laughed a month later when “Finny dies!” Am lit=death 🫤 3d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me OMG; this story is priceless. 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚🩶💚 3d

Catsandbooks Only got 9. But one of my favorites is To kill a mockingbird. I've read it multiple times and all at different points in my life. The first time was 8th grade and I loved it so much I recited an excerpt for our forensics club competition and won a medal ❤️ 3d

AnishaInkspill oh no, I am going to miss these, they have been so much fun, thank you 💛😊 3d

dabbe @Catsandbooks You are in good company! Most of us scored between 5-20. TKAM is an absolute favorite of mine, too. I loved teaching it. I wish GO SET A WATCHMAN had never been published, though. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶💚🩶 2d

dabbe @AnishaInkspill I'll think of more; no need to worry! 🤩😂🤗 2d

Catsandbooks @dabbe I haven't read Watchman because when it came out so many people said they didn't like it and I didn't want it to color my opinion of Mockingbird. 2d

dabbe @Catsandbooks You were very wise. It almost ruined TKAM for me. Lee never wanted it published for a reason. Stay far away from it. 🩶💚🩶 1d

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#FeelinTheLove
#longidstancelove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“In the wee small hours of the morning ...“ 🩶🩷🩶

Leftcoastzen Aww, man ! Great pick ! I was gonna use that one! 6d

Eggs Perfection 🙌🏻 6d

dabbe @Leftcoastzen We can be twinsies! #greatminds
“ 'Didn't you see FATAL ATTRACTION?'
'You wouldn't let me!'
“Well, I saw it, and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America!' “ 😂🤩🤗
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dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 6d

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice!! 6d

kspenmoll Such a fun movie!!! 6d

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Trump: The Art of the Deal | Donald Trump

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords @CBee

Never mind the truth. In this case it won't set you free.

CBee 🤮🤮🤮 1w

AmyG BOOOOOOOO! 1w

dabbe @AmyG @CBee Not a good word today, eh? Sorry about that. 1w

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AmyG Not BOOO-ing the word. Just the book! 1w

CBee Boo to the #ldf @AmyG @dabbe The word is perfect! Keep doing what you‘re doing ♥️ 1w

dabbe @AmyG #highschoolinsecurities @CBee 🩶😂🩶 7d

CBee @dabbe you have those too? #solidarity 🤪 7d

dabbe @CBee 🤓👊🏻😘 7d

Susanita Leigh McGowan interviewed the author a few months ago and it was a very interesting conversation.

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

dabbe @Susanita I read a lengthy article about him in VANITY FAIR as well. Quite interesting. Thanks for the link! 🤩🤗🤩 6d

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Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell

#FeelinTheLove
#lovelost
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Scarlett and Rhett. If you ignore the sequel, that is.

lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 1w

dabbe @lil1inblue 🩶🩷🩶 1w

Eggs Ah yes heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹 💔 1w

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dabbe @Eggs Did you ever read the sequel called SCARLETT? 7d

Eggs @dabbe No. But I‘ve Read GWTW several times 💗 Was it good? 7d

Kerrbearlib That quote! Love it! 7d

dabbe @Eggs It read more like a romance novel than a historical fiction mystery. And the writing couldn't match Mitchell. But it gave people the ending they longed for. 7d

dabbe @Kerrbearlib 🩶🩷🩶 7d

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#FeelinTheLove
#crazylove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Love her. #gonetoosoon 🩶🩷🩶

BooksandCoffee4Me I think I have a few of her vinyl records in a box my dad had. 1w

TheBookHippie Such a voice! 1w

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 😍 1w

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dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me That is beyond cool. 🩶🩷🩶 1w

dabbe @TheBookHippie And so pleasing to the ear! 🩶🩷🩶 1w

dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🩶🩷🩶 1w

MemoirsForMe I could listen to her music for hours. Love her too! 🙌🏻 1w

Eggs 👏🏻👏🏻 I‘ll be humming this all day. 👂🏻 🐛 1w

dabbe @MemoirsForMe 🩶🩷🩶 1w

dabbe @Eggs I already have been! 🩶🩷🩶 1w

kspenmoll Her voice! 🩷 6d

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Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery | C. J. Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR

Hey, Shardlakians~
@TexReader put this on my radar! Our next books is HEARTSTONE, and it's only $1.99 on Kindle right now! If you don't have a copy yet, here's your chance!

Looking forward to our discussion over the end of REVELATION on 2/28! 🤩

Daisey, Cuilin, Amiable, PurpleyPumpkin, AnneCecilie, Gissy, Centique, OutsmartYourShelf, jenniferw88, Deblovestoread, Librarybelle, batsy, Chrissyreadit, kwmg40, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, dabbe, Fr3NcHtOaSt, RaeLovesToRead, bthegood, lil1inblue, PageShifter, LiseWorks, The_Book_Ninja, Karisimo, Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes, BookWrym

LiseWorks Have a copy of it, and I paid 10.99 at the beginning of the month, bummer! 1w

dabbe @LiseWorks They should let you exchange for the lower price! 😱 1w

lil1inblue Hooray! Thank you! 1w

dabbe @lil1inblue YW! 😘 1w

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#FeelinTheLove
#loveletters
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Time to watch WALK THE LINE again. 🩶🩷🩶

Bookpearl I love this movie!! 1w

dabbe @Bookpearl #ditto! 🩶🩷🩶 1w

Eggs Great choice 👏🏻💖👏🏻 1w

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dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 1w

MemoirsForMe 😍😍😍 1w

dabbe @MemoirsForMe 🩶🩷🩶 1w

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#FeelinTheLove
#chocolate (a day late)
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs So true. Unpredictability is a given but love is the answer to most questions… 1w

dabbe @Eggs Beautifully worded, m'dear. 🩶🩷🩶 1w

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Lark Rise to Candleford - Trilogy: Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green | Flora Thompson

#weeklyfavorites
@Read4Llife

If this is the ONLY book I finished this week, does it count as a favorite? 🤔😂🤩

AmyG Yes 2w

Read4life Every book counts. In one way or another. 🤓 💙🩷💙 2w

dabbe @Read4life @AmyG 🤗🤓😘 2w

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#FeelinTheLove
#loveless
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Patty. 🩶

Susanita ❤️ 2w

dabbe @Susanita 🩶🩷🩶 2w

Eggs Clever 👏🏻 2w

dabbe @Eggs I can't picture anyone being loveless. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

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Lark Rise to Candleford - Trilogy: Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green | Flora Thompson

#ChunksterChallenge2025 @Amiable
#AllergicToChunksters @julieclair
#hashtagbrigade @BarkingMadRead

After 580 pages of my edition, I'm stunned that this only qualifies as a “bitsy“ chunkster. I feel like I just reached the summit of Everest and can now gladly glide down the other side. 😂

ferskner Ouch!!! 2w

BarkingMadRead It‘s one of those baby chunks that sneak up on you and clobber you over the head 🤣 2w

Amiable Some colossal chunksters glide by so smoothly we hardly know we‘ve moved, and certain bitsy ones make us work like Sisyphus. 😄 2w

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dabbe @ferskner It was painful in quite a few places. 😂 2w

dabbe @BarkingMadRead And it's heavy enough to do some damage! 😂 2w

dabbe @Amiable Exactly. I feel like I rolled a boulder up Mt. Everest. On a good note, I feel like I achieved quite a bit since I bailed on last month's #hashtagbrigade book. I was determined to finish this one! 💪🏻 2w

BarkingMadRead No shade for bailing last time, almost everyone did 🤣🤣🤣 2w

dabbe @BarkingMadRead And it was my 2nd time trying it. #oytotheultimatevey 🤩 2w

julieclair Congrats for finishing! 🏆 I‘m still climbing uphill. But like you, I‘m determined to finish. 💪 2w

dabbe @julieclair ❣️💪🏻❣️ 1w

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Lark Rise to Candleford - Trilogy: Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green | Flora Thompson

so-so

#hashtagbrigade @BarkingMadRead
This novel offers a nostalgic portrayal of rural English life in the late 19th century. Thompson's descriptions of the natural landscape, seasonal changes, and daily routines are immersive, transporting readers to the hamlets of Lark Rise and the more affluent Candleford. HOWEVER, the narrative is too descriptive at times and lacks a strong, driving plot, making the reading overly cumbersome at times.

Bookwormjillk Did you finish???

Oh wait is today the last day? I just realized I never finished today's chapter. That's the kind of book this is 😂 2w

Deblovestoread Perfect review! 🩷❤️🩷 2w

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I think tomorrow is the last day? I‘m still working on today‘s chapter and a little jealous that @dabbe has finished 🤣 2w

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Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead same 😂 has anyone invented time travel yet? 2w

dabbe Tomorrow is the last day, but gosh dang it, I just had to get it over with! 😂😂😂 2w

Bookwormjillk @dabbe I get it. Pull the band aid off. Even if it does happen sloooowly. 2w

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Perfect analogy! 🙌🏻 2w

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#5JoysFriday @debinhawaii (thanks for the tag and for reminding us of joy! 😘)

1. Even though Phoenix has now broken even more records for heat this week (we've been in the 80s F when we should be in the high 60s), I have not lost my cool ... yet.
2. The monologues of Colbert, Kimmel, and Meyers have been helping me to cope with our fucked-up country.
3. Matt. #always
4. Pippa #always
5. Kate #always
All are welcome to share their joys. 🩶🩷🩶

TheBookHippie We‘re warmer too. Although that means 20Fs (edited) 2w

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 2w

bookandbedandtea It already got to 70 earlier this week in Denver 🥵 I'm not looking forward to summer 😭 2w

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dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😅😂 2w

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @bookandbedandtea Lordy be, me neither. 😭🔥😭 2w

LiseWorks I could always try to mail you some snow ❄️. Before the tariffs kick in in March 🤣 2w

Aims42 I never really watched Seth Meyers before, but he‘s a new favorite for me because of 🍑🤡. I re-watch his episodes the following day 👍 2w

AmyG @bookandbedandtea I thought the same thing. While 70 is nice….NOT in Feb. (edited) 2w

willaful I can't watch political comedians anymore. :-( The closest I get is Josh Johnson, because he's so mellow.
2w

bookandbedandtea @AmyG Exactly! I LOVE 70° but it feels wrong in winter. 2w

DogMomIrene Yikes on those temps! Stay cool 😎 2w

dabbe @LiseWorks Are you tariff-taunting me? 😂🤩😘 2w

dabbe @Aims42 I do the same with all three. That's basically how I get my news, and they all give me the words to laugh about it--if I can. 😅 2w

dabbe @AmyG IKR? 🥴 2w

dabbe @willaful I completely understand. I might be heading in that direction, too, if things continue to go down the sewer. 🤯 2w

dabbe @DogMomIrene Thank the engineer gods for air conditioning. 😂 2w

Aims42 @dabbe Haha, exactly! 😆😭 2w

mcctrish I have been enjoying the political satire, it‘s reassuring on so many levels. I am sick of winter though 🥶 2w

Lesliereadsalot 80s sounds good to me as it‘s 20s here and my son says it‘s snowing in Seattle (nobody ventures out in the snow there!) 2w

Suet624 Yes, all three are a must for me to watch. 2w

kspenmoll Political satire essential!!!!! 2w

dabbe @mcctrish I'd trade you for, say 24 hours. 😂🤩🤗 2w

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot I would where you are, too! Say 24-48 hours? 🤩😂🤗 2w

dabbe @Suet624 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 2w

dabbe @kspenmoll #amensista! ❣️👊🏻❣️ 2w

mcctrish @dabbe I might want a bit longer 😉 2w

DogMomIrene @dabbe Yep! After living in Tucson for years, when we moved to PEI the house we bought had no AC. We put in heat pumps last spring. Their cooling feature works well, especially with the humidity here. Thanking the engineer gods for sure! 2w

TheLudicReader #2, right? You gotta laugh because the alternative is unbearable. 2w

dabbe @DogMomIrene Wowza! What a switch in weather that must have been! Someday I'd love to visit eastern Canada. A girl can dream! 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @TheLudicReader I've heard it said that humor comes from the darkest of places. Now I truly know why. 🤯😮‍💨😂 2w

dabbe @TheLudicReader BTW, I ADORE your new photo! 🩶🩷🩶 2w

TheLudicReader @dabbe, I got your Christmas card today. (Very weird to get mail on a Saturday, but there wasn‘t a single piece of mail all week) Did you ever get my card/letter/little gift? I sent it Dec 21. 2w

dabbe @TheLudicReader No, I didn't. 😟 Does it show on your end that it was delivered? 2w

TheLudicReader @dabbe…it was just in an envelope. Hopefully it will show up. Things are moving slowly through the system. The gift is whatever…but I wrote a l-o-n-g-a-s-s letter, too. 😭 2w

dabbe @TheLudicReader I sent my card in mid-December, so I will not give up hope! It's all I've got these days. 🤗 2w

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Wuthering Heights | Emily Bront�

#FeelinTheLove
#lovequote
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs I was lovesick for this novel as a teen💖 2w

dabbe @Eggs I was, too! I read it a few years back and wasn't as enamored. In fact, I was like “these two people are jerks!“ 😂🤩🤗 2w

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#feelinthelove
#steamylove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Sparklemn Lovely 🫧 2w

Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 2w

dabbe @Sparklemn 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 2w

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
New Survey: AP Literature Free Response Titles List #3 (1970-2024)

1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-ap-literature-free-response-titles-list-3
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading or a combo or whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
Tagging some who played last week. 🤗

BkClubCare, DebinHawaii, peaKnit, melissajayne, DGRachel, tpixie, iread2much, AmyG, TheBookHippie, Kshakal, PurpleyPumpkin, azulaco, Texreader, Leftcoastzen, CogsOfEncouragement, BookNAround, Susanita, TheLudicReader, Deblovestoread, thebacklistbook, MaleficentBookDragon, Eggs, Bookwormjillk, Read4life, Billypar, MonicaLoves2Read, rwmg, vonnie862, Mollyanna, TheBookgeekFrau, Butterfinger, LA1, kelli7990, Patchshank, InkedBookworm13, ImperfectCJ, bibliothecarivs, lil1inblue, LiseWorks, Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes, AnishaInkspill

Texreader Thanks for the tag again! I read 10, with women being my favorite authors again: Octavia Butler and Jane Austen. 2w

TheLudicReader I got 19, but I own a few others that I haven‘t yet read. Geesh, you think you read a lot and then do these lists. 😂 2w

CogsOfEncouragement 20 this time 2w

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Bookwormjillk I got 20% which is one less than last week. It makes me feel old that there are books on this list that I can remember when they first came out 🤣 2w

rwmg 32

I seem to be getting better each week 2w

Amiable @TheLudicReader Exactly! I only had 18, much to my chagrin. And I took AP English. Where the heck was I? 😄 2w

tpixie Only 16. 2w

melissajayne 21. favourites include Pride & Prejudice, Obasan, and The Odyssey 2w

DGRachel I got 17 for this one with too many favorites to list! Cormac McCarthy, Macbeth, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, the Austens. I just wish I could count each reread! 😂 2w

Deblovestoread Thanks for the tag! ❤️🩷❤️ 2w

kspenmoll 28. Pride & Prejudice, The Odyssey, MacBeth, 2w

Catsandbooks Only 11. I've read more by authors who were on the list but not those exact books 2w

BooksandCoffee4Me @Catsandbooks Same here 2w

BooksandCoffee4Me 32. Favorites: Our Town, The Power and the Glory, all of the Austin novels. 2w

thebacklistbook 14/100 mostly the Shakespeare. 2w

Mollyanna Thanks for the tag. I‘ve only read 14. Ugh! And like @Amiable I took AP English. I do have quite a few on my TBR. 2w

Eggs ❤️❤️ 2w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag 5!! One of my best results from these AP lists. I recognised more titles this week too ☺️ 2w

dabbe @Texreader I have yet to read anything by Butler; she's now on my list! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @TheLudicReader You do read a LOT! Most of these are ancient, I mean (ahem) classics. You beat my sorry ass this week! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Better than me! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Bookwormjillk And they were on our high school “to-read“ lists and are still there! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @rwmg Ya whipped me this week! 🙌🏻 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Amiable So did I! I have to admit that my head was sometimes buried in Cliff's Notes. 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @tpixie You're in good company; my score was 18! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @melissajayne Never read OBASAN; I put it on the TBR. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @DGRachel I still can't believe I've never read anything by McCarthy. You've inspired me! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Deblovestoread YW! 😘 2w

dabbe @kspenmoll Ya whopped my sorry butt! MACBETH's my favorite Shakespearean play of all time. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Catsandbooks I say you should count those and redo! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me You should count 'em! 🤩 2w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me Ya whooped my sorry butt! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @thebacklistbook Yay, you! I need more Shakespeare in my life. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Mollyanna @Amiable Same here! Maybe we should have an AP English buddy read! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Eggs 😘 2w

dabbe @thegirlwiththelibrarybag Yay, you! Can we count them if we recognize them? 🤔🤩😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

DGRachel @dabbe You can go wrong with No Country for Old Men, but I would avoid The Passenger and Stella Maris duology. This reminds me the Blood Meridian is still on my TBR. I really need to get to that one… 2w

Amiable @dabbe I do honestly toy with the idea of going back and reading all of those classics that I was supposed to have read but instead managed to get through AP English armed only with a cursory review of Cliff's Notes and a winning smile for my teacher. 😄 2w

dabbe @DGRachel Good to know! I've been scared to read him! 😅 Thanks. 🤗 2w

dabbe @Amiable I wish we had been in the same class together. We would have been #incahoots! 🤩😂🤗 2w

DGRachel @dabbe I totally meant cannot go wrong with No Country. Just know it‘s violent. The Road is probably his best known and it‘s excellent but depressing. 2w

Amiable @dabbe OMG, my English teacher was legendary! On the 1st day of class she told how she escaped Budapest during the Hungarian revolution in 1956 by swimming across the Danube with a backpack holding only a change of clothes and “Hamlet.“ Kind of hard to complain about Shakespeare after that! She also claimed to be a judge for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Found out years later from her obit that she actually was! She scared the bejesus out of us. 2w

willaful 13 for me. Not many favs other than Pride and Prejudice, though I was really into One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest back in the day. 2w

tpixie @Amiable what an amazing resilient teacher you had! 2w

Mollyanna @Amiable Your teacher sounds amazing! 2w

Amiable @tpixie @Mollyanna We did not appreciate her at the time! She was intense and had sky-high expectations for us. We were all afraid of her, mostly. 😄 But now I can credit her for the success I‘ve had in college, grad school and my career. I can draw a straight line from the things I learned in her class to today —40 years later. 2w

tpixie @Amiable that‘s amazing. I think that happens with teachers- it‘s not until we reflect on our life that we can appreciate their impact 🩵🤍🩵 2w

dabbe @DGRachel Fabulous advice. I will file these emotions away, and when I'm ready, I'll give him a try! 🤩 2w

dabbe @Amiable She sounds like an incredible woman. She could have penned her own memoir/autobiography! 🤩 2w

dabbe @willaful P&P is my fave Austen. I've even read some horrible pastiches just to revisit Darcey and Elizabeth in as many ways as I could! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Amiable I also was terrified of my AP English teacher. She gave me a “C“ on my 1st essay. I had NEVER received a C in anything in English. I ran to my mom in the library (she worked at my high school) and begged her to get me out of her class. “No way,“ was her reply. “You've finally met someone who's going to take you out of your comfort zone.“ Ms. Wogan was the only teacher I came back to visit my 1st weekend home from college. 🩶 2w

MonicaLoves2Read I have read 12, 6 in High School 6 in College 2w

Kitta Read 12, this list is very different from my reading list in school! My favourite would have to be the Picture of Dorian Gray, which I read on my own time in University. I have an Oscar Wilde tattoo 😂 so probably no surprise there. 2w

dabbe @MonicaLoves2Read #yahooyou! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Kitta DORIAN is one of my top 3 from this list as well! I'd love to see your tattoo, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩷🩶 (edited) 2w

Kitta @dabbe it‘s a nightingale and a rose, 🥀 🐦 from the short story! I‘ll post a picture if I can, it‘s on my inner bicep so hard to photograph 😂 2w

dabbe @Kitta 🤩🤗🤩 2w

PurpleyPumpkin 23/100, not bad! Favourites are The Picture of Dorion Grey, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Obasan. Always fun to do these, thanks for the tag!💜 1w

AnishaInkspill thanks for the tag 😍 1w

dabbe @PurpleyPumpkin Better than my sorry butt! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🩶🩷🩶 1w

dabbe @AnishaInkspill YW! 🤗 1w

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#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords @CBee

#ldf (lame-duck felon) fallacy #2: appeal to ignorance
From the debate with Kamala Harris. Such simpler times than now--just 3 months later. 😳

Aims42 -sigh- that was a lifetime ago 😵‍💫 2w

dabbe @Aims42 #amensista 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 2w

TheBookHippie Just unreal. 2w

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Amiable So ... many ... examples of him/them doing this. 😖 2w

dabbe @TheBookHippie We're living in beyond-surreal times. 😮‍💨 2w

dabbe @Amiable I bet we could write a book just about all of his fallacies. Who could stomach reading it, though? 😤 2w

Leftcoastzen So disgusting and unrelenting! 2w

AnnCrystal 😒🤐... 2w

AmyG The stupidity is off the charts. 2w

Lesliereadsalot I was so happy not having to watch CNN every night for 4 years. 2w

Aims42 @Lesliereadsalot Right??? I can barely remember what it was like to wake up and not instantly feel anxiety over what happened overnight 🙄 2w

dabbe @Leftcoastzen That's the perfect word: unrelenting. 👊🏻 2w

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Aims42 @Lesliereadsalot IKR? First thing I said to Matt this morning, “What shit-ass thing did he do today?“ 😤😮‍💨🤯 2w

Aims42 @dabbe “Shit-ass thing” is also added to my 2025 vocabulary 😂🤣 It perfectly sums up his actions 💩 2w

Lesliereadsalot And it‘s only been a month!!! @dabbe @Aims42 (edited) 2w

dabbe @Aims42 #shitassthing by the #ldf or as @TheBookHippie says ... #cheetosatan ☢️☢️☢️ (edited) 2w

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot 17 days! But who's counting? 😱 2w

bthegood It's hard to keep a hopeful/positive outlook😔 (edited) 2w

dabbe @bthegood If anyone can, it's you! 🩶🩷🩶 2w

bthegood 💕@dabbe 💕 2w

Davispeterson @Lesliereadsalot Hello, how‘re you doing. l've noticed we share some common interests and enjoy similar things. I've really enjoyed going through your posts so far and was wondering if you'd be interested in chatting more regularly or maybe even becoming friends? 1w

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#feelinthelove
#weirdlove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Aren't we all? 🖤

Aims42 💛🧡🩷 2w

dabbe @Aims42 🩶🩷🩶 2w

Pogue I am more than a bit! And proud of it. 2w

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dabbe @Pogue 🩶🩷🩶 2w

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yes!! 2w

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Yep! That‘s me! 2w

bthegood Love is someone knowing all your crazy - and loving you for it 😂 2w

Eggs We all have our own ‘weird‘🙌🏻 2w

dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @DrSabrinaMoldenReads You're not alone! 🩶🩷🩶
2w

dabbe @bthegood 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 2w

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Looks like I am with my people @dabbe 2w

dabbe @DrSabrinaMoldenReads As am I! 🤩😂🤗 2w

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Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

#feelingthelove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#roses

Eggs ❤️🌹❤️ 2w

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 2w

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The Valley of Fear | Arthur Conan Doyle

#readyourkindle #readyourbooks @CBee

Hoping for a good reading month.

bookandbedandtea 🤞🏻😊 2w

CBee #10, I‘m reading that now 👏🏻👏🏻 It‘s resolving some of my issues from the last book 😂🤪 2w

dabbe @bookandbedandtea 🤩😂🤗 2w

dabbe @CBee #greatminds 🤩😂🤗 2w

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Amy Winehouse � In Her Words | Amy Winehouse

#feelinthelove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#loveisblind

Eggs Exquisite 💖 2w

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 2w

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#SundayFunday
@BookmarkTavern

Since producing two AP Literature surveys for #ThreeListThursday, I am reminded of how many classics I still want to read. Two big authors would be to read all of Shakespeare's plays and all of Dickens. I'm really enjoying the #WhatTheDickens buddy read.
Here's a link to ALL AP books on the AP Lit exam from 1970-2024 if interested:
https://shorturl.at/uLWzh

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Thanks for this list! 2w

julieclair My goodness yes! Soooo many still to read. Thanks for the link. I, too, want to read/reread Shakespeare‘s plays, and was thinking it might be a nice challenge for 2026. (2025 is full, lol.) 2w

dabbe @DrSabrinaMoldenReads YW! 🩶🩷🩶 2w

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dabbe @julieclair Now THAT would be fun. Maybe a buddy read for the Shakespearean plays in 2026? Maybe we could do it together? 🤔🤩🤗 2w

Mollyanna Thank you for sharing the list! 2w

BooksandCoffee4Me Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road and Edith Wharton‘s The House of Mirth so that I can understand my son‘s writings on those books. 2w

BookmarkTavern Shakespeare‘s plays are a lot of fun! Thanks for posting! 2w

dabbe @Mollyanna YW! 🩶🩷🩶 2w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me I'm intimidated by McCarthy but Love Edith Wharton ... though I've never read MIRTH. Another one on the TBR! 🤩😂🤗 2w

dabbe @BookmarkTavern I've read a few but not all! YW! 🩶🩷🩶 2w

BooksandCoffee4Me @dabbe I‘m intimidated also but my son studied his writing as an English major at Wheaton College, and he keeps encouraging me to read McCarthy. Usually I just read my son‘s reviews, like this one, which is also intimidating 😁 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6249665317 2w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me Wowza! Your son is brilliant. This retired high school English teacher is beyond impressed! 🤩 2w

BooksandCoffee4Me @dabbe He‘s offspring of two lit majors and teachers, and his education at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL was exceptional. And yes, I read both his book reviews and his movie reviews and am blown away by how his mind works. 😊 (edited) 2w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me Beyond awesome. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

julieclair @dabbe Love that idea! Writing it down in my reading journal so I don‘t forget. 🤪 Let‘s touch base in late summer/early fall and get it planned! 👍😃 2w

dabbe @julieclair 🤩👍🏻🤩 2w

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The Valley of Fear | Arthur Conan Doyle

#bookspin25 #bookspin2025 @TheAromaOfBooks
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#ChristiesCapers @Librarybelle

C'mon, February! 🩶🩷🩶

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 2w

Librarybelle Nice! 2w

Cuilin Cool 👍 2w

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Suet624 I like this graphic a lot. 2w

dabbe @Cuilin @TheAromaofBooks @Librarybelle 🤩😂🤗 2w

dabbe @Suet624 TY! I used it last year and really like it. 🩶🩷🩶 2w

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Outlander | Diana Gabaldon

#feelingthelove
#faveliterarylove (couple)
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

These two. 🩶🩷🩶

KadaGul @dabbe Yes 😍🥰🙂‍↔️😓🤗🤤🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ #HOTFICTIONCOUPLES 2w

Mollyanna Absolutely! 💕🙌🏻💕 2w

dabbe @KadaGul 🤩😂🤗 Those scenes in the books--wowza! 🔥 2w

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dabbe @Mollyanna 🤩😂🤗 2w

Eggs Brilliant🙌🏻 2w

dabbe @Eggs 🤩😂🤗 2w

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The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel | Louise Penny

#readingbracket2025
Thanks for this template, @CatsAndBooks! 🤗

Catsandbooks Wonderful! 🎉 3w

dabbe @Catsandbooks 🤩 2w

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A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel | Louise Penny

#FictionalTraveler
@julieclair

4th book in the series ... I love Three Pines and all the people who live there. 🌲🌲🌲

TiredLibrarian I ❤️ Three Pines too! 🌲🌲🌲 3w

dabbe @TiredLibrarian #greatminds 🌲❣️🌲 3w

julieclair I really do need to begin this series. Enjoy! 3w

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CoffeeNBooks I love this series and Three Pines! 🌲🌲🌲 3w

dabbe @julieclair I'm loving it! 🤩 3w

dabbe @CoffeeNBooks 🌲❣️🌲 3w

kspenmoll I so enjoy reading your reactions. I wait not so patiently for each new book as it comes out. 2w

dabbe @kspenmoll And I can't believe she has another one coming out this year! She just had one last year, too! I have Matt hooked on them as well. I'll read, then he'll read. Such fun! 🤩😂🤗 2w

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The Little Prince (Illustrated) | Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry

#FeelinTheLove
#lovepoem
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Poetry from prose. 🩶🩷🩶

Kerrbearlib Beautiful ♥️ 3w

dabbe @Kerrbearlib Top 5 fave book of all time. 🤩😂🤗 3w

Eggs Brilliant 🥲 🦊 💛 3w

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suvata Classic 3w

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩷🩶 3w

dabbe @suvata IKR? 🩶🩷🩶 3w

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Untitled | Untitled

#ReadYourKindle #ReadYourBooks

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Thanks for being our hostess with the mostest, @CBee! 😘

CBee Aw you‘re welcome!! 😊 3w

dabbe @CBee 🩶🩵🩶 3w

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Untitled | Untitled

#BookSpin #BookSpin25 #BookSpin2025

Thanks for being our hostess with the mostest, @TheAromaOfBooks! 🤩

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3w

dabbe @TheAromaofBooks 🩵🩶🩵 3w

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The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel | Louise Penny

#readingbracket2025
@CSeydel ... thanks for the lovely bracket! 🤩🤗🤩

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Untitled | Untitled

#5JoysFriday
@debinhawaii (thanks for the tag; you, too @BooksandCoffee4Me! 🤩)

1. Pip and Kate have been doing very well with their “sit“ and “stay“ for treats. 🖤🐾🐾🖤
2. Weather under 60º F this week. And after 158 days, we finally got some rain. ☔️
3. Only 1448 days to go. IYKYK 😮‍💨
4. Litsy and all of you = a haven. ☮️
5. Matt, Pip, & Kate ... always. ❣️
Any joys, @TheLudicReader @ShelleyBooksie @mcctrish? 🤩

Aims42 Love all your joys!! 🩷🧡💛 3w

dabbe @Aims42 🩶🩵🩶 3w

kspenmoll Love this, especially your countdown & yes, this place is a haven. 🩷 3w

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dabbe @kspenmoll 🩶🩵🩶 3w

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝🌬️🌧️💫💖. 3w

DogMomIrene Your countdown is perfect! 3w

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵🩶🩵 3w

dabbe @DogMomIrene TY! 🩵🩶🩵 3w

peaKnit Only 1448 days! Almost 1447… I‘ll take every minute we can off the total! 3w

TheBookHippie Gadzooks 😵‍💫 1447.. 3w

dabbe @kspenmoll @DogMomIrene @peaKnit @TheBookHippie Oh, then we all need something like this: https://logwork.com/countdown-h5o4 3w

dabbe @peaKnit #hearhear m'dear! 🤩 3w

DogMomIrene @dabbe We definitely need this… on a Jumbotron! 3w

dabbe @DogMomIrene #amensista! 🤩😂🤗 3w

peaKnit @DogMomIrene Please! A Jumbotron!! Love that!! 3w

kspenmoll Your posts uplift me! 💖 2w

kspenmoll @DogMomIrene A jumbotron! Love it! 2w

dabbe @kspenmoll Yours, too! 🩶🩷🩶 2w

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Mutts | Patrick McDonnell

#25Alive
#gift
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 3w

dabbe @AnnCrystal Love me some MUTTS! 🩶🩵🩶 3w

AnnCrystal @dabbe I discovered these MUTTS here on Litsy, because of your posts. Immediately fell in love with these characters 👏😉💝. 3w

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dabbe @AnnCrystal They are my fave next to PEANUTS. Guess who was in awe of C. M. Schulz? Patrick McDonnell, creator of MUTTS. 🩵🩶🩵 3w

AnnCrystal 🆒☺️💝...I love Snoopy and all of the Peanuts gang! That's neat 😉👍💝. (edited) 3w

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵🩶🩵 3w

Eggs So sweet 🖤🤍🖤 3w

dabbe @Eggs 🩶🩵🩶 Nothing is better than the “gift of nothing“. 🩶🩵🩶 3w

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Untitled | Untitled

#poetrymatters
#want
@TheSpineView

I'll now be singing this all day. 🤩

IMASLOWREADER i hear singing this in my head lol 3w

peaKnit Oh I remember this cassette in my dad‘s ‘69 Roadrunner…good times ❤️ 3w

dabbe @IMASLOWREADER IKR? 🤩😂🤗 3w

dabbe @peaKnit How cool is that? 🩶🩵🩶 3w

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Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR

The discussion for the 2nd half of the book will be on 2/28/25.

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

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LiseWorks I would not like to live in these times at all. The people in charge are greedy, insane and are willing to kill anyone for power. The Monarch does not really have a say. Everyone doesn't trust, and they all lurk in the dark. 3w

Karisimo I feel for these people who are dealing with religious “rules” and traditions changing on the whim of a king. 3w

OutsmartYourShelf I feel for anyone living in those times who had a mental health problem. Very likely to either be denounced as being 'possessed' & killed or stuck away in a place like Bedlam. 3w

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dabbe @LiseWorks I can't even imagine what it would be like to walk on London Bridge and see all the heads on poles--especially for people once in favor with the king--like Cromwell. Maybe 2025 ain't so bad--even with our current horrific leader. 3w

dabbe @Karisimo IKR? It's like one day you're Catholic, oops, no, now you're Protestant, oops, no, back to Catholic. What the heck? 😳 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf To still use the word “bedlam“ today to mean “wild uproar and confusion“ from the original place kind of says it all, doesn't it? I really feel for Adam Kite and his family.😔 3w

OutsmartYourShelf @dabbe I think it underscores that for Henry VIII (whether he wanted to admit it or not) the core issue wasn't so much the form of worship but the seat of power. If it was truly the religious side of things, he wouldn't have part walked it back as he did. 3w

dabbe Some characters set apart by isolation and loneliness: Shardlake (as a lawyer often at odds with the powerful figures he has to encounter), Guy Malton (as a healer and outsider due to his nationality having to work on the margins of society), Adam Kite (whose religious mania confines him to Bedlam), and Tamasin (whose gender limits her opportunities by forcing her to remain at home and deal with the loss of her child while Barak is elsewhere) . 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf Get Catherine of Aragon out of my way to allow me to marry good ol' Anne ... whatever it takes. He pretty much stayed Catholic even though he changed the religion so he could divorce Cat. What a scumbag (imho). 3w

OutsmartYourShelf @dabbe Oh I could give Barak a good kick up the backside for how he's acting. Even if he is not out with other women, making Tamasin wonder where he is & what he is doing - I expected better from him. Grief makes people act out in funny ways but no wonder she is angry with him.

I hope Guy is not ill. He has to walk about a lot here & there for Shardlake in this book & at all times of the day & night!

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kwmg40 I really like how Sansom explores all the themes you mentioned in this post, especially the attitudes toward and understanding of mental illness at that time. 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf To use his favorite word, Barak is an ARSE! He needs to man up and learn that it takes two to make a marriage work. Hopefully, Shardlake will kick his butt. And Guy ... he just has to be okay, right? 🤞🏻 3w

dabbe @kwmg40 The description of the rooms at Bedlam where these poor people have to stay are almost as bad as the cells at the Tower of London. Just horrific. 😱 3w

AnneCecilie I‘m just happy that I live today and not in the Tudor area. The Tudor area was not a place for be for the poor and powerless which after all is what most people are. What comes across in this book is the confusion of all the religious back and forth, people hardly dare believe anything anymore. 3w

dabbe @AnneCecilie And how religion just flips on a dime at the whim of a king. 😳 Truly unbelievable! 2w

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Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR

The discussion for the 2nd half of the book will be on 2/28/25.

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

LiseWorks The king had syphilis and that disease brings on madness. 3w

OutsmartYourShelf @LiseWorks That is one theory but not proven as far as I am aware. Personally I tend to believe the head injury he suffered whilst jousting (the fall which was said to cause Anne to miscarry) altered his personality. After that he was more cruel & mean-tempered. 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf @LiseWorks ... and I'd add to that that he was in incredible pain most of the time due to his infected ulcerous leg and furious that he could no longer be the athletic self he once was. These issues might also have contributed to his later despicableness. 3w

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dabbe To me, Roger‘s murder in the churchyard is a richly symbolic act that sets the tone for the novel‘s exploration of religion, violence, and judgment. It underscores the killer‘s fanaticism, the corruption of sacred spaces, and the pervasive fear of divine retribution that characterizes the Reformation era. This event is the critical starting point for Shardlake‘s investigation and the novel‘s broader themes. 3w

dabbe The title REVELATION itself is symbolic, as the story revolves around a killer who uses the apocalyptic visions from the Book of Revelation as inspiration for their murders. The Book of Revelation symbolizes fear, chaos, and the end times, reflecting the anxieties of 16th-century England during the Reformation, when many believed the world was nearing its end. 3w

OutsmartYourShelf @dabbe Yes - head injury, chronic pain, & approaching mortality. That would do it. 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf More than enough, right? 3w

AnneCecilie I completely agree with @dabbe 3w

dabbe @AnneCecilie 🤩😂😘 2w

lil1inblue @dabbe Yes! I appreciate how Sansom weaves this theme throughout the multiple plot lines that are occurring. I also like how the title can work many ways - as reference to the Book of Revelation, but also the meaning of “the making known of something that was previously secret or unknown.“ 2w

dabbe @lil1inblue Excellent point re: the actual meaning of the word itself! 🤩 2w

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Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR

The discussion for the 2nd half of the book will be on 2/28/25.

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

LiseWorks I feel sorry for any young girl that He king is after now that he is old 3w

Butterfinger @LiseWorks it makes me angry toward the men who pushed the girls toward the king. Sorry, I am not part of the discussion, but I had been reading your comments. 3w

LiseWorks Oh, I agree. Women were property at the time. @Butterfinger 3w

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OutsmartYourShelf Piers - something shady about him.
Cranmer - seems a bit more human this time. Not so remote.
Catherine Parr - always felt sorry for her. Married to two old men (Latimer & then the King) & when she finally is able to marry the man she loves, disaster strikes. 3w

dabbe @Butterfinger No need to be sorry; chime in whenever you want! And if you'd like me to tag you, I'd be happy to! 🤩 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf Excellent points. What a tragic life she had! She's my favorite of all of the wives for many reasons, which I'll wait to share because she'll be in the books more and more. 🤩 3w

dabbe @LiseWorks As a child I always thought how romantic it would have been to have been a princess/queen in Tudor times--even to dastardly Henry. Then I actually learned more about the time period. 😳 And now I am thrilled to be my 2020s free womanly self. 🤩 3w

dabbe Even Shardlake comments on the worthlessness of women: “A terrible thought occurred to me. Dorothy, like Roger, like me, was a lapsed radical. I told myself not to be so foolish; none of those murdered had been connected to each other and there was surely no reason why he should change his pattern and go after Dorothy. And she was a woman, whose opinions counted for less.“ 🤬
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dabbe Adam Kite is a deeply troubled and enigmatic character whose religious mania and psychological struggles play a significant role in the novel‘s exploration of faith, madness, and the human condition. His fanaticism symbolizes the darker side of the Reformation, where intense religious fervor could lead to psychological breakdowns. His vulnerability also makes him a sympathetic figure, even as his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. 3w

OutsmartYourShelf @dabbe Yes, & women were then also subdivided. When Shardlake looks up Strodyr, he notes that no-one really cared that much when he killed prostitutes, only when he started killing 'respectable' women. Shades of the Yorkshire Ripper there. (edited) 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf Wowza. Had to look him up. Thanks for the information, and I agree 💯! 🤩 3w

kwmg40 I find the characters of Piers and Thomas Seymour interesting. They are definitely not likeable people but I'm eager to see what roles they end up playing in the story. 3w

dabbe @kwmg40 They definitely seem to be on the darker side in the 1st half of the book ... another reason to keep on wanting to read! 😂 3w

AnneCecilie Piers seems a little shady. Thomas Seymour doesn‘t come off that well and I feel isn‘t the smartest one. I just feel sad about Adam, but I hope we learn what happened to make him pray so much. 3w

dabbe @AnneCecilie Piers's insolence is what gets me. And I hope things with Adam turn out well. I've read it before (years ago) and can't remember! 😱 2w

AnneCecilie Me too, I read the the translation when it came out. And I have a feeling that there was something about Piers 2w

lil1inblue @dabbe I'm so intrigued by Adam's character. I feel like there is more to the story, and I'm anxious to see what has led to his fanaticism. 2w

dabbe @lil1inblue Me, too. His parents as well. 2w

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