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bibliothecarivs
Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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p. 147: '[Hardy's] is a voice that speaks to readers in many countries and to which successive generations have responded. With this voice Hardy established the territory in which he worked best in fiction, in which rural landscape is drawn with a naturalist's eye and country people are shown playing out their lives "between custom and education, between work and ideas, between love of place and experience of change."' (Raymond Williams)

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mrp27
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May #wrapup

A few good ones this month. James was well done and I loved learning more about Eve. Boots on The Ground was also good, I liked reading about veteran‘s experiences and it gave good insight.

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TheBookgeekFrau
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Favorite of May: The Book of Charlie

#2025ReadingBracket

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MrsMalaprop
Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick
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What a story🥹. What writing 😍.
Imagine if you grew up knowing you were adopted and were told a fiction about the circumstances of your birth.
In your late 40s you get hold of your original birth certificate, and read your biological mother‘s name…famous Australian writer Charmian Clift.
This book was re-released after the author‘s daughter Gina Chick wrote her memoir, We Are The Stars, a book I read and loved in 2024.
Wonderful 🥰🙏👏

CarolynM I read this one a long time ago and I wondered if it would get rereleased when Gina‘s book got so much attention. It is a great book and a really interesting twist on the adoption story, don‘t you think? 4d
MrsMalaprop @CarolynM Yes, so interesting and well done by Suzanne Chick. 4d
Rissreadswithcats Staaaaaaaaaaaaaacked!!!!!!! 💙 3d
Rissreadswithcats I just realised today that with my Spotify account I get 15 hrs of free Audio book listening. This was included. It scraped in at 14hrs and 48 mins 🤣 I‘m so excited! 3d
Jeg Can‘t wait to read this. Heard her on the radio. 3d
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ferskner
Jane Austen: A Life | Claire Tomalin
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I'm sooooooooooo behind on Litsy everything but for a good reason: May was packed with travel, and the most important part of it was visiting Jane Austen's House in Chawton. 😍😍😍 A true Janeite dream come true, especially in this epic 250th birthday year.

BarbaraBB Great photo and a great trip ❤️❤️ 6d
Librarybelle So awesome!! 5d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 5d
LeahBergen How wonderful! I made the pilgrimage, too. 🥰 5d
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youneverarrived
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Still reading books from last years Women‘s Prize NF and they have all been BRILLIANT reads - more so than this years imo. I wasn‘t really drawn to this but I‘m glad I read it - loved the way it was written, the way Funder gives Eileen a voice and shows another side to Orwell (so misogynistic) that his biographers tried to sidestep. A tale as old as time really - a man not acknowledging a woman‘s part/taking credit for all the work.

andrew61 Great review, we are discussing it at my next reading group, so I have just finished it. Her role in the civil war was fascinating, especially as Orwell ignored it in his memoir. The fact she had written a dystopian poem called 1984! A life unknown but worthy of a host of biographies, so glad I read it. 5d
youneverarrived @andrew61 your last sentence - spot on 😍 I bet it will make a great discussion. I found it fascinating, too. I know, the poem! Reminded me of Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald where he took some of her ideas for his own. 5d
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Bookbuyingaddict
Jane Austen at Home | Lucy Worsley
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Back in beautiful 🤩 bath uk 🇬🇧 for an entertaining evening with the wonderful Lucy Worsley 🥰🥰

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Nashboy301
Ballplayer | Chipper Jones, Carroll Rogers Walton
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Really good read! Brought me back to my childhood with some of the names brought up in the book along with Chipper himself. Highly recommend for Braves fans as well as baseball fans alike.

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LitsyEvents
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repost for @AllDebooks:

Our #VirginiaBloomsberries June #buddyread is Harriet Baker's 2024 group biography of VW, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamund Lehmann, observing how their lives were changed by their move to the country.
https://mirandasnotebook.com/blog/harrietbaker

All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

AllDebooks Thank you for the share 😀 1w
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