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✍️🏻 a quiet word addict
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I was tagged by my buddy @gilioncdumas to show #tenonmytbr but I’ll just show you all the books I have with me, which comes to somewhat more than 10 (no, I didn’t count. That’s why I have too many books in my collection! 😄)

When I packed up my house and headed across the country to look for a new home, wasn’t sure how long it would take. I estimated three months of the outside, mostly because I figured it would be getting cold, and I would start to feel desperate for a warm fireplace. As it turns out, it will be a little less than that if all goes well with the home buying process.

In America that means you put an offer on a house (in this current seller’s market, that means well above what its listed for according to its estimated worth). Then if the offer is accepted, you negotiate with the sellers if an inspection turns up anything that needs to be repaired, such as plumbing, or the roof. Long story short, nothing is for certain, and it usually takes about a month.

I tend to be distracted reader, so I picked some of my thinnest books — ones that look most intriguing — and still I’ve only gotten to two of them, whilst buying more along the way. 🫣 But for all the times I took books out of a little free library and forgot to leave any, I’m leaving books along the way now, like a true book fairy. 🧚‍♂️

What are the top 10 on your #tbr ?

BTdubbs: I’m a @redvinescandy girl and I have not seen a Red Vine since I came to the East Coast. What’s up with that? Please send Red Vines!!!

#bookstagram #tbrshelf #reading

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July Scavenger Hunt! Tagged by @kxu65 for #WinterInSummer reads:

🔁 A book I have reread: The Christ Commission

✍🏼 An author with an initial in their name: L. M. Montgomery

❄ A title that begins with "Winter": In the Grip of Winter

🎄 Christmas in July: Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

📅 A book on my TBR since December: Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop

⛵ A cover with something you'd find at the beach: The Cornish Cream Tea Bookshop

🎂 Dedicating this post to July birthday celebrants: @neuneuneugierig @coffee_n_classics @rolly.looks.at.books @jocelyn.reads.books Is anyone else celebrating their birthday in July?

🎅 If you see this, consider yourself tagged!

🔖 #ScavengerRoad26 #ScavengerHunt #BookCoverChallenge #JulyScavengerHunt

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Another exciting booktag from @kxu65 for May Scavenger Hunt:

📚 The number 5 in the title (for the 5th month) :
"The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman

📚 5 letters in the author's first and last name:
David Teems, "Majestie"

📚 A title end in y (like May) :
"Toxic Empathy" by Allie Beth Stuckey

📚 Purple cover for Stroke Awareness Month:
"Which Bible? " by David Dewey

📚 Cocktail on the cover (or title) for World Cocktail Day (May 13th):
"Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding
(A combination of gin, fresh lemon juice, and fruit liqueur, garnished with a lemon slice)

📚 Bees on the cover for National Bee Day on May 20th:
"The Wild Remedy" by Emma Mitchell

💭 “…Of all…impassioned pursuits, there is none more abundant in joys, noble, healthy and pure, than book-hunting.” – Holbrook Jackson (The Anatomy of Bibliomania, 1950)

❓ How has your May been so far?

🔖 #booktag #mayscavengerhunt
#classics #nonfiction #penguinpopularclassics
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After seeing the post by @barbaras.book.obsession featuring titles relating to women, I looked at my shelves and realized not only do I have a lot of books with “Ladies”, etc. in the titles, but I have a many books with “Woman” or “Women” in the title. Not shown here would be one of my very favorites, “The Woman in White” by Willie Collins (it’s lurking around here somewhere.🕵️)

I also noticed that I managed to have two covers with naked women on them — “Fanny Hill” and “The Foolish Gentlewoman”. (That was totally unintentional. Insta doesn’t need any more naked ladies, am I right? 😅)

Can you guesstimate how many books with titles relating to women you might have on your shelves? Run and check, 🏃🏻🏃🏼‍♀️then get back to me, OK?

#bookstagram #womensfiction #classicscommunity #flatlay #books

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#ladolcefarniente #northcarolinabotanicalgarden #bookstagram #travelgram #😎

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🔎What’s In A Name?

♻️ I’ve noticed that Oscar Wilde frequently recycled names across his works, often using them for very different characters. I found that this habit is widely attributed to his desire to avoid libel suits from the real-life London socialites he was satirizing. By reusing established fictional names, he could distance his characters from any specific person who might feel targeted by his wit.

⛓️ Here are the specific connections:

1. Arthur
This name appears in both the short story "Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime" and the play "Lady Windermere’s Fan." The protagonist of the story is Lord Arthur Savile, while in the play, the main character’s husband is Lord Arthur Windermere.

2. Lady Windermere
In the short story, she’s a minor character who hosts parties for eccentric celebrities. In the play, she is the central protagonist navigating a moral crisis. (Windermere is also a town in Northern England!)

3. Sybil (or Sibyl)
The name appears as a central love interest in two major works:

a. Sybil Merton: The pure, patient fiancée in "Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime."

b. Sibyl Vane: The tragic actress in "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

4. Savile
While Lord Arthur Savile is a lead character, the name also references London's famous Savile Row.

⚖️ By recycling these names, Wilde created a "stock company" of characters that felt familiar to readers while shielding himself from the legal risks of Victorian-era defamation laws.

🤔 QOTD: If you were writing a story, would you base your characters on people you know? How would you tweak their names?

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#OscarWilde #LordArthurSavillesCrime #LadyWinderemersFan #ThePictureOfDorianGray
#ClassicLiterature

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It's been awhile since I joined in, but now that I have two working legs again, I perused my shelves to join @barbaras.book.obsession for the February Scavenger Hunt created by @nothing.beats.a.good.book . You need:

♥️ a form of communication on the cover: I had chosen News from Thrush Green by Miss Read, but didn't realized it had to be visually on the cover (not just in the title), so I switched out The Hearing Trumpet (I don't have a single book with a phone, TV, or radio on the cover, OK?);

♥️ the second book in a series you haven't finished: good news -- I went back to my posts and realized I finished the Palliser novels 🥳, bad news -- I've only read two of Zola's series. The second is The Kill (but it depends on whether you follow the publication date or his suggested reading order);

♥️ your shortest title for the shortest month: "We" by Zamaitin. ("We " what? I don't know -- I haven't read it);

♥️ a book with "Two" or "2" in the title: Goethe's Faust Part Two (fight me 😅);

♥️ a red book for Valentines Day: Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden;

♥️ a pet on the cover for Feb 20, Love Your Pet Day: Thomasina by Paul Gallico.😽

Swipe to see why I need to do more book challenges -- I found a set of twins (you can't know how this pains me especially when I buy used books to save money most of the time 🤦🏻‍♀️). I also found my The Invention of Morel which I didn't think I have I was about to buy. 😂

If you think this looks like fun please join in!

#bookstagram #classiclit #bookcover #bookish #flatlay

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#buddyread & #tbr26in26 with tagged pals 🫶🏻

👇🏻POSSIBLE SPOILERS (but revealed on the back cover of this edition 🤨):

Effie Briest was a 17-year-old, happy-go-lucky girl playing amongst her school friends, when her parents arranged her engagement to a Baron of their acquaintance. He was over twice her age, and had been a suitor to her mother before her marriage years ago. This was not an issue so much as the fact that he was constantly preoccupied with his burgeoning workload, and much too sedate to be a real companion to his young wife. She tried to make the best of things; he sought to pacify her with other people and things to keep her happy while he focused on his real pride and joy -- his career. The consequences were not merely a lackluster marriage devoid of emotional intimacy and true companionship, but a brief affair Effie deeply regretted.

Fontaine brings up moral and ethical questions. The novel grows heavier as these issues intertwine into a tangled web of strict morality versus human compassion. Effie's father says at one point, "...am I to play The Grand Inquisitor till my dying day?" To which Effie's mother responds, "...I love her just as much as you do...But we are not in this world just to be weak and affectionate and make allowances for every infringement of the law and the commandments and what people condemn..."

The "commandments" are from Exodus 20:14 in the Bible, God's ten commandments given to Moses for the people of Israel which include not committing adultery. However, these commandments were given to these people within the framework of their existing society and rules of order they created for themselves. To me this is something worth keeping in mind when judging others, but more importantly the Bible also says"Judge not, lest you be judged."(Matthew 7:1).

Have you read this?

#bookstagram #translatedfiction #germanliterature

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three books i would re-read in a heartbeat, just to re-live and feel that feeling for the ‘first time’ all over again

patrick radden keefe has a new book coming out this year called ‘london falling’ on april 7th - gosh gosh gosh!

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tagging a few accounts - please share your 3 favourite(s) x inspiration coded

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Bracing up for the run-up to Xmas? Ready to face the fact that it’s almost time to say goodbye to 2025? 😮😥⏱️🎄🎉🎀☃️

The lovely @books_tea_ asked about my final contenders for December and I hope to squeeze in these two that look season-appropriate and would also fit into the Winter Book Bingo organised by @lisalovesmissmarple ❄️

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

High Rising by Angela Thirkell (the first in her “Barsetshire” series, which reminds me that I need to resume Anthony Trollope’s own version! 😉)

I haven’t read anything by these authors yet, even if I contemplated picking up The Bridges (by Vesaas) first last summer because my library had it in stock, but I had bitten off more than I could chew 😅

I’d also love to get round to Selma Lagerlöf’s short story collection, A Book for Christmas… even if I’ve heard it described as too churchy and sanctimonious, so we’ll see. 🙈 Even in Jane Eyre, the religious passages irked me a little and I still haven’t gotten over the fact that the preachy zealot had the last word. But I’m getting carried away 😅

I’m not even sure I’ll manage to read them before the end of the month since at the moment I’m knee-deep in undergrad essays and error-ridden translations to mark. 105 down. 325 to go. 🫣 So that’ll occupy me for a little while.

❔What about you? Are there books that you absolutely want to read before the New Year? Or are you like me, always fantasising about reading Christmassy books but procrastinating until it’s too late? 🙈😅 Tagging a few but anyone’s welcome to share their eleventh-hour TBRs of course

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#victoriandesertislandchallenge 🏖️

Andy @places_and_books posted earlier this week about what 5 (or 6 😜) novels published in the Victorian era that you would take to a desert island.
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I haven’t done a challenge in a while so here goes, and I limited myself to mostly British authors this time:

☀️Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - this is the novel that made me fall in love with classics in high school and even on re-read has continued to hold a special place in my heart.

⛱️Villette by Charlotte Brontë - the fabulous culmination of Charlotte’s immense writing talent. This one just edges out Jane Eyre for me.

🏖️The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - this Brontë sister deserves much more love for her bold protagonist that bucks all societal norms.

☀️Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope - I so wish we had read him instead of Dickens in high school. More would adore the classics today I believe if it had been so. I’ve only read The Barsetshire series of this prolific author so I’m picking the one where we meet a whole host of colorful characters that soon become as dear to you as family.

🏖️The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - I can’t imagine being stuck on an island without mysteries, and Sherlock Holmes is the cleverest.

🥁And finally my sneak in #6 which is an American author 🇺🇸 but still published in the Victorian era . . .

⛱️Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - the March girls were the sisters I never had, and I often felt that I didn’t really belong as a young girl, much like Jo.

🎵 Desert Island Disk by Radiohead, my island reading music.

📣I hope one day @chilternpublishing will publish Villette and some Trollopes in their beautiful editions.

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