#12booksof2022 I finally got around to this one in March and once I got into the book, I really liked it. I can see why it won a couple of book awards in 2020. Yes, it‘s just the same book as the one with the cover with the large H on it.
#bookreport Finished two books this past week and considering how I am feeling, that is quite good for me these days.
#currentlyreading the HP book is my #doublespin book for March and Apples is a two week loan and the loan for An Impartial Witness is also coming up soon.
#weeklyforecast Need to get The Language of Flowers done for this coming Saturday for my book club meeting.
pick4⭐️ I will admit that I got this book because everyone was talking about it a little over a year ago. It took me a little bit to get into the story, but once I did, I quite enjoyed it. #2022 #bookreview #bookstagram #historicalfiction #fiction #basedonatruestory #awardwinner #womensprize
Was my #bookspin book for March
I am reading the tagged book and The Last Rose of Shanghai and The Other Bennet Sister; may work on HP and the Deathly Hallows as well. #weekendreading
pickPossibly the best book I've read so far this year. It has a rhythm that pulls you along, through love, grief, dread, hope, family, humanity, understanding, and nature. It manages to be pensive and propulsive and the same time. Beautiful and heartbreaking and hopeful. The last scene undid me.
TW: death of a child
The multiple titles and covers are confusing but the reviews are promising. I love the cover with the letter H. 💙
#fridaynightplans #currentlyreading
pickWow! Favourite book in a really long time. Heartbreaking story about love and losing a son. You know what happens, and it is still gut wrenching. But told so beautifully. Love how Shakespeare isn‘t mentioned. Love his wife and family as interpretatives by the author
pickStorm Day...so I got a chance to finish this amazing book about Shakespeare (although he is never named) and his wife, Agnes (more commonly known as Anne) and their children. This is a masterful narrative which dips in and out of different points in their lives, and is filled with beautiful and heartbreaking moments. A book to be savoured.
pickSo, so very good!! “This is a work of fiction, inspired by the short life of a boy who died in Stratford, Warwickshire, in the summer of 1596.” His father‘s name is never mentioned, but he just happens to have written a very famous play to honor his dead son, and express his deep grief. This is a beautiful, brilliant story. “I am dead: thou livest; ...draw thy breath in pain to tell my story. “ Hamlet, Act V, scene ii
My new audio! I ran out and bought the book completely forgetting I pre-ordered the audio!
pickThe impact of a child‘s death is exquisitely portrayed, with all of the deeper resonances that accrue from choosing to place the family in the path of a (bubonic) plague & for the male head of that family to be a 16th-c English playwright whose name is recognized worldwide today, even though it is never mentioned in the novel. I was totally swept up in this #audiobook read by Daisy Donovan. But why did the Canadian publisher change the title?
She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.
pickMaggie O'Farrell is such a talented stylist and it shines through like the sun in the writing of this book. I loved what she did with the character of Shakespeare's wife, Agnes. I loved how she keeps Shakespeare offside to give room for Agnes to tell her story. I also love the way O'Farrell portrays grief in her writing. Unlike anyone else. It is a beautiful, creative, memorable piece of writing.
Made two book purchases today - Utopia Avenue and Hamnet & Judith and picked up one book from the library - Exile Music.
Can i quit work for the day now and just read?
Hamnet and Judith: A novel | 
