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

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.)

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

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

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

Indeed!

Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 20h

It came to me with that title!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 21h

❤️! Thank you!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you, Jules!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you, Ian!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you, petipaw, I so love this book!

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!!

Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Same here...

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

!!! 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 · 1d

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

Maybe we should have a Brontëfest next year? I did read Jane Eyre in high school but I have no real recollection of it. (Other than that the teacher always called her "Jane Eerie".)

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

I bought this one for my Brontëfest but haven't yet read it!

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

Same here, Alison!

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

I've never read it and have been meaning to have a Brontëfest for years now! (One book from each sister...)

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