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So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.

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Very clearly biographical- gives insight into how Hardy would like to think of himself

Anybody else listen to Librivox recordings?

I don't normally enjoy listening to a book, but the busy schedules had forced me into it - not that bad after a long day.

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1. Not a selfie, but my eyes match the paint on my hands.
2. I like all colors of eyes, especially green.
3. Max Scherzer has one blue eye and one brown eye, AKA heterochromia.
4. Kili has yellow-green eyes just like his predecessor.
5. I only remember if it‘s a plot point, or if the author mentions it 800 times.
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Not as tragic as Tess of the D'Urbervilles but tragic in its own right.

Not my favourite Hardy, probably down to the characters. Wet Stephen, silly Elfride and Knight, who hates women and will only marry one who has never so looked at a man. The ending seemed a bit of a cop out too. Gets a pick though because I love Hardy and even the ones I am not so keen on are good.

Supposedly the woman Elfride was based on. This is no Hardy heroine, however. I think the reader is perhaps supposed to feel pity for her, but she comes across as a wet idiot. This may be down to her suitors tho. Wet Stephen or Knightly who comes across as hating women and seems to delight in making her feel humiliated.

Comfort reading Thomas Hardy.This is Emma Gifford, the character he based his heroine on and his first wife.

So tired 😴 can't wait for the bank holiday.

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.