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Yes, one of the best books of the year. Excellent review.
Lisa wrote: "Yes, one of the best books of the year. Excellent review."
TY, Lisa. I read your review, so know how much you liked it, too.
Fantastic review, David. You expressed everything I felt reading this work, and more. It was the end chapters that are the core of the work. But the writing is more lyrical than music. Such a great book. Thank you for sharing your thoughts so eloquently.
Ty, Janet. I had this feeling that, writing about Shakespeare that she paid particular attention to the language in keeping with the times. Agnes is also into flowers so there’s this hint that some of Will’s lyricism may have come from his wife’s effect on him and her knowledge and passions. Hamlet’s passion for his mother reflects Hamnet’s passion for his mother, and so on, too. I’ll never see Hamlet in the same way after this book.
I wish it had been written when I was in high school. I think if I had read this before reading Hamlet, it would have been a different play to me. I love how she was inspired by something said to her secondary school class by her teacher. I hope he is alive to see what he sparked in her imagination.
I hope so, too. Yes, I also thought Hamlet was a sort of enigma of a play, with all this brooding madness in the main character. But it has his dear dead son's name, lost just four years prior to his staging of it, and so not a biography but a literary tool for grief. Of course!! I just reread Hamlet and now I have to reread it again with an eye to the grief os his son and even love of his wife in and through it.
Linda wrote: "Excellent review, David." Thanks, Linda. It's such a good book!
Again, David, thank you for sharing your insights.
I'm reading O' Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am, right now. Need to put Hamnet on my list, I guess. Thanks for the review, David.
Cynthia wrote: "I'm reading O' Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am, right now. Need to put Hamnet on my list, I guess. Thanks for the review, David."
and did you like it?
Thank you for encouraging me to read this book! It was beautiful and deeply moving.
Thanks David for your review and insights. The book is brilliant and moved me deeply. I’ve just added Hamlet in the “To read urgently” list.
thanks to both Abby and Marc! I love this book. And Hamlet, well, that's pretty good, too!
Beautiful review, Dave. And I agree about Maggie O’Farrell’s writing. The film adaptation was superb.
Lorna wrote: "Beautiful review, Dave. And I agree about Maggie O’Farrell’s writing. The film adaptation was superb."
ty, Lorna.
wow how lucky to have seen this production!
♑︎♑︎♑︎ wrote: "wow how lucky to have seen this production!"
I agree! I would prefer to be in the Great North, basically, but it is also great to have access to so much in the arts here, too. I want both.
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Yes, one of the best books of the year. Excellent review.
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Lisa wrote: "Yes, one of the best books of the year. Excellent review."TY, Lisa. I read your review, so know how much you liked it, too.
Fantastic review, David. You expressed everything I felt reading this work, and more. It was the end chapters that are the core of the work. But the writing is more lyrical than music. Such a great book. Thank you for sharing your thoughts so eloquently.
Ty, Janet. I had this feeling that, writing about Shakespeare that she paid particular attention to the language in keeping with the times. Agnes is also into flowers so there’s this hint that some of Will’s lyricism may have come from his wife’s effect on him and her knowledge and passions. Hamlet’s passion for his mother reflects Hamnet’s passion for his mother, and so on, too. I’ll never see Hamlet in the same way after this book.
I wish it had been written when I was in high school. I think if I had read this before reading Hamlet, it would have been a different play to me. I love how she was inspired by something said to her secondary school class by her teacher. I hope he is alive to see what he sparked in her imagination.
I hope so, too. Yes, I also thought Hamlet was a sort of enigma of a play, with all this brooding madness in the main character. But it has his dear dead son's name, lost just four years prior to his staging of it, and so not a biography but a literary tool for grief. Of course!! I just reread Hamlet and now I have to reread it again with an eye to the grief os his son and even love of his wife in and through it.
Linda wrote: "Excellent review, David." Thanks, Linda. It's such a good book!
Again, David, thank you for sharing your insights.
I'm reading O' Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am, right now. Need to put Hamnet on my list, I guess. Thanks for the review, David.
Cynthia wrote: "I'm reading O' Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am, right now. Need to put Hamnet on my list, I guess. Thanks for the review, David."and did you like it?
Thank you for encouraging me to read this book! It was beautiful and deeply moving.
Thanks David for your review and insights. The book is brilliant and moved me deeply. I’ve just added Hamlet in the “To read urgently” list.
thanks to both Abby and Marc! I love this book. And Hamlet, well, that's pretty good, too!
Beautiful review, Dave. And I agree about Maggie O’Farrell’s writing. The film adaptation was superb.
Lorna wrote: "Beautiful review, Dave. And I agree about Maggie O’Farrell’s writing. The film adaptation was superb."ty, Lorna.
wow how lucky to have seen this production!
♑︎♑︎♑︎ wrote: "wow how lucky to have seen this production!"I agree! I would prefer to be in the Great North, basically, but it is also great to have access to so much in the arts here, too. I want both.
