FYI, Tumblr messaging is currently broken for me on my main blog but I can receive messages at hawthornehedge. Current Bostonian, ex-scientist, and vaguely bewildered attorney. Major fandoms include cats, Doctor Who, cats, Hamilton, cats, The Hunger Games, cats, Psych, cats, Jane Austen, cats, MCU, art, science, and progressive politics. Also: Cats. But, really, anything can be found here. .gr_custom_container_1514817304 { /* customize your Goodreads widget container here*/ border: 1px solid gray; border-radius:10px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; width: 200px } .gr_custom_header_1514817304 { /* customize your Goodreads header here*/ border-bottom: 1px solid gray; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; font-size: 120% } .gr_custom_each_container_1514817304 { /* customize each individual book container here */ width: 100%; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; } .gr_custom_book_container_1514817304 { /* customize your book covers here */ overflow: hidden; height: 60px; float: left; margin-right: 4px; width: 39px; } .gr_custom_author_1514817304 { /* customize your author names here */ font-size: 10px; } .gr_custom_tags_1514817304 { /* customize your tags here */ font-size: 10px; color: gray; } .gr_custom_rating_1514817304 { /* customize your rating stars here */ float: right; } Hawthorn's bookshelf: read The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore tagged: 2017-books-read Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell tagged: 2017-books-read High Rising by Angela Thirkell tagged: 2017-books-read Christmas at High Rising by Angela Thirkell tagged: 2017-books-read Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope tagged: 2017-books-read Share book reviews and ratings with Hawthorn, and even join a book club on Goodreads. Tweets by @hawthornhedge !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
I don’t think any book has made me have to stop reading and take a walk as many times as this one has except maybe while reading the Game of Thrones.
Masterful, compelling, horrific and heart shattering writing from Miss Suzanne. Oozing with empathy, with bravery and it connects to such a deep sadness and a deep hope within me and I’m not even done reading. Everything is just the right measure to hit the heart. A tough fucking read but worth it.
My beloved Mr. Cat passed away today, July 7, 2024, at the age of 17. The top picture is one of the first photos I took of him after I adopted him in November 2008. He loved curling up in a basket (photo taken last year). The bottom photo is from several months ago. He was an orange cat through and through, and my home is much too quiet without him.
If Hadestown has a moral, she says, then it’s “you have to try, you have to have hope, not because success is a given – it’s not. Orpheus fails. We heroicise” – here she breaks off to apologise that jet lag has led to her making up words – “we heroicise Orpheus not because he succeeds but because he tries, and that endeavour alone is worthwhile. How to live, and not merely survive, is to believe things could change.”
Anaïs Mitchell on her musical Hadestown: 'I worked on it so long I was afraid I'd never make another record'
"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist
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