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Hi! I'm Bathsheba Everdene!
And I'm Poor Decision-Making Bathsheba Everdene.
I sent a random Valentine to a guy on a neighboring farm asking him to marry me, even though I don't even like him! This turned him into an annoying semi-stalker who spent the next several years begging me to marry him for reals!
And then, in a further display of my terrible judgment, I married a philandering asshole who on ...more
Hi! I'm Bathsheba Everdene!

And I'm Poor Decision-Making Bathsheba Everdene.

I sent a random Valentine to a guy on a neighboring farm asking him to marry me, even though I don't even like him! This turned him into an annoying semi-stalker who spent the next several years begging me to marry him for reals!
And then, in a further display of my terrible judgment, I married a philandering asshole who on ...more

Thomas Hardy is a writer who paints. He paints pictures of the environment his characters inhabit, he paints pictures of the society they are a part of, and he paints pictures of the people, and makes them stand before you full-blown and detailed. That is probably one of the reasons I love reading Hardy so much. Each of the major characters in Far From the Madding Crowd walks off the page and becomes quite real.
Bathsheba Everdene is a complicated woman in a world where women were so often portra ...more
Bathsheba Everdene is a complicated woman in a world where women were so often portra ...more


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