Status Updates From The Nutcracker and the Mous...

the nutcracker just ended and I realized now that there are 1-2 more short stories in this lol

i thought there was so much more to go than there actually was 🤣🤣 had to do a double take

cute little story within a story

This is not going to take me long at all. I'll probably finish it tonight or tomorrow.

Unhinged

Total random, aber weirdly faszinierend.

2.5

this is the strangest story

Jamás leí este libro. Y lamento no haberlo hecho para navidad.

Had this on my tbr for years. This particular one is apparently some kind of special edition, but I got it in a charity shop in Glasgow for £2 about, *checks calendar*, seven years ago???

Since it's still technically kind of Christmas (bare with me), I thought I'd give this a go. It's been a long time since I've read a classic.

!!! I need someone to talk to abt this!!

🌰La nuez cracatuec tiene una cáscara tan dura que un cañón de cuarenta y ocho libras podría pasarle por encima sin quebrarla.
🌰Esa nuez tan dura tenía que ser abierta delante de la princesa por un hombre que no se hubiera afeitado jamás y que jamás hubiera calzado botas, y él tendría que entregársela con los ojos cerrados.

He leído la primera mitad del cuento hoy, Nochebuena. Y leeré el resto mañana que es Navidad. Es una tradición un poco tonta pero es la única que me apetece mantener por ahora.

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The audiobook recording with music from the ballet playing in the background is 😭 so fucking cosy 😭😭

🫣〰️Montones de ratones, unos más densos que otros, galopaban de un lado a otro y se ponían luego en formación
😱〰️Siete cabezas de ratón con siete relucientes coronas se alzaron del suelo entre terribles siseos y silbidos.
🥁Cascanueces corría de un lado a otro dirigiendo a las tropas palabras de entusiasmo

This is really fun... How had I never heard of this before?

In which Marie is tormented by a deranged mouse, and her family casually talks of installing a trap--a cat would be too nasty to have in the house, apparently.
Gracious sakes this book is a lark!

the only right time for me to read this is near christmas

Curiouser and curiouser

pls bring me xmas spirit

This is easily the sweetest tale I have ever read.

for christmas

📱02:09

lol all children’s story’s from pre 1950s are just… different

Obsessed with the king’s mathematician

la parte del tocino..... I lost it

I get that it's for kids, but the people who randomly speak in rhymes are killing me

ay pero me está pareciendo realmente lindo

Notes (also spoilers): 1) Marie gets dolls and a dress, Franz gets soldier toys and a fox (?).
2) Hoffmann talks to the reader: "you might be a Franz, Theodor or Ernst"
3) "[...] auch sie wurde des Herumgehens und Tanzens der Püppchen im Schlosse bald überdrüssig, und mochte es, da sie sehr artig und gut war, nur nicht so merken lassen, wie Bruder Fritz." Soziale Konditionierung?

✅〰️Me dirijo a ti mismo, amable lector u oyente, Fritz, Theodor, Ernst o como quiera que te llames, y te pido que recuerdes vivamente la última mesa de Navidad adornada con hermosos regalos de muchos colores