Welcome to Litsy!

Yes , I treated myself for Christmas! And yes , I still need to downsize book collection!😄🎄
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Recent birthday acquisitions:

📖 Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life by Ralph Pite
📖 The Poetical Works of John Keats

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p. 78: '[Hardy] could no longer believe, but he cherished the memory of belief, and especially the centrality and beauty of Christian ritual in country life, and what it had meant to earlier generations and still meant to some.'

p. 63: '[Hardy] went several times to hear Dickens read... and to hear John Stuart Mill speak on the hustings, and to the House of Commons to listen to Lord Palmerston. When Palmerston died, he got tickets for the funeral in Westminster Abbey, very conscious of the fact that the great man had stood in the House with Pitt, Fox, Sheridan and Burke. It was the personal link always that stirred Hardy's interest in history.'

p. xxii-xxiii: 'Hardy was a writer who made many of his best efforts out of incidents and stories he had collected and put aside, sights stored up, feelings he had kept to himself, anger he had not shown to the world. [As a poet] he is like an archeologist uncovering objects that have not been seen for many decades, bringing them into the light, examining them, some small pieces, some curious bones and broken bits, and some shining treasures.' ⬇️

Started

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-Not the tagged book- Audible Original Podcast offered this six-part series about Arthur Conan Doyle, and I was intrigued to learn about his personal life and the creation of Holmes. There‘s a lot of information packed into this two-hour podcast. I recommend giving this a listen if you're interested in learning the highlights of Doyle‘s life. 

Full review at https://abookandadog.com/blog/the-real-sherlock

A look into the country life of the British authors, Virginia Wolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosalind Lehmann

Most of the time is spent with Wolf, starting in 1917 as she recovers from illness. This was a quiet time in her life and since the notes from this period is different from the ones she made before and after, they are usually excluded by biographies. So I found this period interesting.

I hadn‘t heard about Warner and Lehmann before

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I continued Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and I finally started Unwell Women #SheSaid

I finished Confusion and Rural Hours

Then I went for all the shorter books and read Not a River, Our Wives Under the Sea and Clear

I‘ve started Little Rot

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An overly ambitious stack for my last staycation week. I don‘t think I‘ll get to every book, but there‘s some shorter ones here

I want to continue Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and eventually start Unwell Women #SheSaid

I want to finish Rural Hours and Confusion

Crooked Plow is due back at the library on Tuesday so not sure I‘ll get to it. Then I just want to see which of the following I can get to; Not a River, Parade,