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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 38 minutes ago

🏰 Chapters 2 & 3. The language is so good here - everything is just slightly off-true. Merricat and her rigidity & rituals, Uncle Julian and his desperation to remember every detail, Constance seeming less like a child and more like the matriarch. It was hard not to read ahead today.

Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social

Chapters 2 & 3 Huh. So Constance was acquitted despite several damning pieces of evidence. OTOH, I'm not convinced she's not covering for Merricat. And I guess Uncle Julian is actually alive.

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · about 2 hours ago

We Have Always Lived in the Castle ch. 3: the part about Constance making rhubarb jam had me trying to remember how much of the rhubarb plant is poisonous.* So I tried Googling it and now Google thinks someone's been poisoned. 🏰 *the leaves are definitely toxic, it turns out.

Screenshot of a Google search for "rhubarb poison." The first result says "Help is available. Speak with someone today" and then gives the number for a poison control hotline.

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · about 3 hours ago

🏰 Related to the We Have Always Lived in the Castle readalong: The film I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) struck me as intensely Shirley Jackson-esque when I first saw it. Now that I'm reading the novel, I can see where Lily's opening voiceover in the film comes from.

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I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix

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Bookzombie @bookzombie.bsky.social · about 6 hours ago

🏰 So, to chapter 3 of We Have Always Lived in the Castle. More magical thinking from Merricat; it turns out that she's not just relying on the gates and chains for protection. I do wonder whether Constance knows? If she does, she's certainly not discouraging it.

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · about 7 hours ago

🏰 We have always lived in the castle: there is no way I read this only once as a kid. The Déjà vu I’m having is intense and I’m only a few pages in. This is a profoundly weird place experience because I thought I had a handle on my obsessive reads but perhaps I do not.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · about 7 hours ago

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social

🏰 ch 3 I can’t tell if Merricat has all these strange rituals & beliefs & violent thoughts bc she is unhinged enough to murder her whole family &/or bc she was a kid whose whole family was murdered, potentially by her beloved sister.

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On Sunday mornings I examined my safeguards, the box of silver dollars I had buried by the creek, and the doll buried in the long field, and the book nailed to the tree in the pine woods; so long as they were where I had put them nothing could get in to harm us.

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Ren, spooky-listenin' freak @laurenblish.bsky.social · about 8 hours ago

I do take his point, though--if C was the poisoner, she wouldn't have put it in the sugar, plenty of which would be left after the meal. And she'd have used something that could have gotten into the food by mistake, like botulinum toxin-ridden jam in the pudding or foxglove leaves in the salad. 🏰

Ren, spooky-listenin' freak @laurenblish.bsky.social

(nb: I don't think Connie put the poison anywhere. But I do think it's hilarious that Julian is giving her notes on his own attempted murder.)

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Horrible Ryan @horribleryan.bsky.social · about 11 hours ago

Chapter 3 is a RIDE. Does #Merricat bury talismans because she's a witch? Because she /thinks/ she's a witch? Or is she just whimsical?

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