
BBC News - Thomas Hardy: Largest ever collection of author's objects on show
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-61608588
BBC News - Thomas Hardy: Largest ever collection of author's objects on show
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-61608588
An amazing novel that will take you on a romantic journey through the pastoral English landscape. Hardy writes so eloquently placing you in the scene, surrounded in the pages as if you are really there. Even the use of language envisages the characters through the author‘s true lens. I also watched the BBC 2015 drama starring Carey Mulligan. Very well done, but the book still is better than the movie. Highly recommended. ❤️
Recorded this on BBC 2 last night. So , I‘m going to chill out & watch … we read this for Bookclub and I read it years ago too .. I loved the book ❤️
My vintage finds today. The Lenski is first edition!!! The Landmark has me happy. The Jewish cookbook is 1932.
Birthday books….my partner and I went to our favorite bookshop yesterday and I got these. I attempted to pay for them and he wasn‘t having that lol. I can‘t wait for a nice day to go to the park and sit and read Hardy and let my brain work a little harder. I love classics and I am so happy to have this mini edition. I looks for Austen and they where out.
#OppositeDay #Near
The main events of this book take place far from the maddening crowd and in the country. Very beautiful prose; loved this book!
Currently reading. Am I the only one who can‘t stand Bathsheba?
#SciFiSeptember #MadMaxFuryRoad
I chose this book for three reasons:
1. In the title is the word MAD
2. “Tom Hardy” wrote the book and is an actor in the movie 😉
3. Both are about finding your “home”in this world.
Does anyone else feel the same, or is it just me ? 😂
Day 19 - #StarCrossedLovers #TropesInAugust
#FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #ThomasHardy
Bethsheba and Boldwood became star-crossed lovers in the end. Such a good book with a great lesson!
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
I am enjoying this book so much more than I expected to.
#ManicMonday @JoScho
This week was hard to narrow down!
Book: Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Author: John Fowles
Movie: Ferris Bueller‘s Day Off
TV show: Friends
Band: Fleetwood Mac
Song: Fiction by Avenged Sevenfold
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fiddler on the Roof
Freddie Mercury
Feels Like Rain by Buddy Guy
#ManicMonday #LetterF @JoScho
#7days7books day 5 Since joining litsy ive enjoyed lots of classic books but as a teenager i loved Thomas Hardy (though probably more that i loved the hardy heroines) and Far from the madding crowd is my favourite. Here are 2 of my copies from those days and they helped me appreciate classics.
There aren‘t that many books about Demophobia - the fear of crowds. So I‘m stretching today‘s #AuldLangReads prompt to its limit and going for a novel with a title that indicates where I prefer to be - as far away as possible from the madding crowd!
#BookAboitSomethingYouFear
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
One last yearly update: my reads for the #1001books list. I read only 20 in 2019, somehow I‘ve been more in the mood for modern fiction. However, my total is now 614 of 1001 so I hope to get there one day. #ReadingEurope2020 and @Reviewsbylola ‘s #classicschallenge2020 might help to read some more classics this year!
I‘ve fallen behind on reviews... To save some time during final exams, here are a few I haven‘t posted yet:
I‘m Not Dying With You Tonight ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sincerely Cinderella ⭐️⭐️.5
Far From the Madding Crowd ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (#Booked2019: Public Domain)
The Winter Soldier ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 (#Booked2019: Soldier‘s Story)
#tbrread #wintergames #merryreaders
This is one I #readinhighschool, and it ignited a love of Hardy that survives to this day. #gratefulreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
Day 16 - #ThoughtYouWouldntLikeItButDid #GratefulReads
#FarFromMaddingCrowd #ThomasHardy
Loved this book and glad I finally read it!
Now that I'm back at home my world-tour continues. This evening it was Great Britain with Cones and some Colcannon. The according book is Far From The Madding Crowd, besides many more.
I enjoyed the descriptions of the life at the farms way more than the love story. And of course in autumn it's time to #harvest.
#fallisbooked
Thanks for the tag, @melissajayne !
1. Tagged book - I meant to read this last year but didn‘t have a chance to pick it up...
2. Pride and Prejudice - I‘ve lost count how many times I‘ve read it
3. Too many to count! 😂
4. The Castle on Sunset - 4 star rating. Fun history of the Chateau Marmont
5. Tag...you‘re it!
#WondrousWednesday
I spent part of the weekend reading this at a yoga festival. The book is better than I was expecting (never read Hardy before), and the festival was a little more eh than I was expecting. 🤷♀️😀
It may be that for a non-native like me English books are harder to listen to than to read.
I think I understand what I hear but audiobooks don‘t often touch me as a book that I read myself can do.
This book, for example, to me felt just like listening to a lot of landscape-with-sheep descriptions, and a soap opera in which three men circle around one woman. There must and will be more to it, but I missed it. #1001books
My first Thomas Hardy book! 😁
'But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.' - Pg 44
"...nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart... I hate to be thought men's property in that way..." -pg 26
'On a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution'. -Pg 22
'This well-favoured and comely girl soon made appreciable inroads upon the emotional constitution of young Farmer Oak.' -Pg 22
'... a case more trying by far to the nerves is...' -Pg 12
Happy Easter! I'm enjoying this beautiful spring day sitting out in the sunshine, reading, and sipping this Donut Shop coffee shot. How is your Sunday going?
#classics #spring 🌼
I have a hard time reviewing classic books...
I will say this one was surprisingly hilarious every once in a while. 😆
I liked that it has a female main character 👍
Made me want to travel to the English countryside lol 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏
Starting book 7 of 30 for my 2019 goal!
I've been reading very heavy, dense fantasy stiff lately and I needed something easier. #amreading #classic scored a free kindle AND Audio copy! I do own the physical, I have been kind of switicng between all of them depending.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/45765219-estela-v
Bathsheba Everdeen.
#uniquecharacternames #literaryluck
Thomas Hardy
Jodi Picoult
Frankie Y Bailey
Michael Dorris
Tracey Tillis
@britt_brooke
You may have a reading problem when you are at a book club meeting for one book, knowing you have a paperback in hand, your kindle in your bag and an audiobook going if things get too loud before everyone arrives. Clearly I am living my best life!