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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you!

Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 5h

This is an interesting thread! I agree with Miss M. about the accessibility of Henry VIII. But I also find the language in this play a little flat. I've been reading the history plays mostly for the language (archaisms & idioms fascinate!) and this one definitely felt different.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 5h

I read Justine years ago, too, but then never continued with the rest of the quartet, though it's down in the stacks...

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 8h

You, too, Catherine!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sorry you have it, too. All of Maine has various degrees of drought; last week's map had us in "severe." (And there's been very little rain since.)

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 15h

Ours are changing differently from usual, too, likely because of the drought.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 15h

Indeed!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

It came to me with that title!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

❤️! Thank you!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Jules!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Ian!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, petipaw, I so love this book!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Alison! I also love the cover as well as the interior design.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Miss M.!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it is abrupt in the book! (Despite my feeling that it would end the way it did.)

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much, Marianna, it truly is a beautiful book -- I've read it many times in both languages and still learn from what Egana writes.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to see that my translation of Egana Djabbarova's "My Dreadful Body," on the way from New Vessel Press in spring 2026, is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair!
newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering about that, too... (Despite not being much of a biography reader!)

And I think you mean the ending of North & South, yes? I thought it felt (more than?) a bit rushed. But I'd been expecting it to end the way it did.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, bifocals! I first had them very young -- early 20s! -- so definitely don't think they're necessarily a sign of advanced age!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Same here...

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 2d

!!! This sounds very interesting! After reading Gaskell's North and South (sort of, since I went faster!) with @christina500.bsky.social I'm thinking more about reading Victorian women...

(It's so odd what still lurks on my shelves after decades... Roman history anyone!?)

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Okay! I have:
Emily's Wuthering Heights
Charlotte's Villette
Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Plus The Vanished Bride, by Bella Ellis, (described as a "Brontë Sisters Mystery" in which E, C, & A are "detectors") & Minae Mizumura's A True Novel

I didn't realize how many books have piled up!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking about starting with whatever had been written first... But it doesn't really matter to me! I'll pull the books off the shelf to see what I have. (I remember telling @sparrowpost.bsky.social about all this some years ago back when we were on Twitter...)

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I find this difficult, too!

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