#maggieofarrell

[don-simon]

"Grief is just the other side of love"

We were looking at this beautiful piece of embroidery she had made, and she turned it over and the back was much more complicated, quite messy. In a sense that is what grief is: you turn love inside out, like a sock or a glove, and that's what you find, isn't it?

Maggie O'Farrell, interviewed by Lisa Allardice in The Guardian Review, 27 March 2021

[backpacksnstuff]

I think some books have been conspiring to make me read “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. It also seems to me I’ve never read it (shame 😬). So, read it I shall 🧐 As for “Hamnet”, the book I’ve read because of you, bookstagrammers, it is, as expected, heartbreaking and beautiful; the book that can’t be read in public unless you want other people see you cry (yep, I, too, made this mistake 😭). #bookstagram #bookstagrammers #instabooks #instabookstagram #whatimreadingnow #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksthatmakeyoucry #hamnet #hamlet #maggieofarrell #williamshakespeare #historicalfictionbooks #britishliterature #britishauthors (at Tallinn, Estonia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRWwwcOLoRc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[adayinbookland]

Aug 10th, 2020 📚reading updates📚 . 🌸LAST - Stamped from the Beginning. I still have a chapter + the epilogue left to read but it's safe to say this is a 5 star read. It is more on the academic side of non-fiction and it deals with a lot of information about racial prejudice spanning through centuries. Kendi's work is outstanding and open my eyes to a loads of issues I had no idea about - especially about assimilationists and how their way of thinking has done more damage than good. This should be mandatory reading for everybody. It took me 2 months to get through it because I wanted to soak everything in. Most pages are highlighted and annotated. This is a must read. . 🌿NOW - Hamnet & Mexican Gothic. I am halfway through both of them and enjoyed both. I'm typing this as I read another chapter of Hamnet that brought me to tears. O'Farrell's writing is a dream. And with regards with Mexican Gothic, I can say I am intrigued and disgusted at some scenes at the same time. Really atmospheric novel. Cannot wait to see how the story unfolds. . 🌼NEXT - Rage of Dragons. I forgot to get the book for the picture but it is the novel I am planning on picking up first because I joined Busy Bee Bookclub and that's the pick for August. I've heard nothing but amazing things and despite not reading much military fantasy I cannot wait to read it. . What are you currently reading? • • • #lastnownextreads #hamnet #maggieofarrell #mexicangothic #silviamorenogarcia #stampedfromthebeginning #ibramxkendi #literaryfiction #womensprize #horrorfiction #nonfiction #antiracistbooks #augustreads #unitedbookstagram #bookaesthetics https://www.instagram.com/p/CDt0nO4qJoG/?igshid=cy3q6hg195sk

[mollat-bordeaux]

#deslibrairesàvotreservice avec Maggie O'Farrell, Cette main qui a pris la mienne, @editions1018 #bookface #bookfacefriday #bookfacemagazine #livre #book #buch #libro #livro #bok #книга #本 #책 #kitap #librairie #کتاب #bookshop #librairiemollat #mollat #bordeaux #igersgironde #الكتاب #sleeveface #maggieofarrell (à librairie mollat)

[adayinbookland]

Aug 15th, 2020 • 🌿”Hamnet, here, on this stage, is two people, the young man, alive, and the father, dead. He is both alive and dead. Her husband has brought him back to life, in the only way he can. As the ghost talks, she sees that her husband, in writing this, in taking the role of the ghost, has changed places with his son. He has taken his son’s death and made it his own: he has put himself in death’s clutches, resurrecting the boy in his place […] He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live.”🌿 . You better believe I got emotional typing that quote. Maggie O’Farrell has destroyed my heart but also mended it at the same time. Her writing is gorgeous, so fluid, so lyrical. Hamnet is divided into two parts. The first one we have alternating chapters going from the time Hamnet and Judith get sick, to when Agnes and her soon-to-be husband meet, how they get together and build a family and how he goes to London to became the most famous playwright of all time. I love the fact that his name is never mentioned; that everything we know about him is almost through Agnes’s eyes. And part two deals with the grief the family goes through after Hamnet’s passing. Despite the fact that you know form the very beginning that is going to happen, that Hamnet is not going to survive, it’s no less devastating. I don’t know how to put into words what this novel made me go through. It’s almost so wrong how one can write about grief and loss in such beautiful way. You can feel what the characters are feeling and you go through this journey with them. And then you finish it, close the book and let them go. But that’s the thing. I won’t. . What was the last time a book you loved also destroyed you? • • #adayinbooklandreviews #hamnet #maggieofarrell #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booksoutside #unitedbookstagram #fortheloveofbooks #augustreads #booksandnature #bookreviewersofinstagram #bookreviewers #bookrecommendation #ilovebooks📚 https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6nn6zqpAN/?igshid=15vpqth4c6xqq

[idrislibrary]

La muerte es violenta, la muerte es una batalla. El cuerpo se aferra a la vida como la hiedra a la pared y no está dispuesto a soltarse, no se rinde sin pelear.

[idrislibrary]

[cristianemagalhaes]

Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell

Esse é ótimo! A vida de Shakespeare tem muitos poucos fatos registrados, ou seja, pouco se sabe. Mas ela, com base em poucos fatos e bastante fantasia cria uma rica história sobre a família de Shakespeare, em especial sua mulher e seus filhos – Susanna, Judith e Hamnet, que morre ainda muito jovem, e cujo nome é quase Hamlet....

História bem construída e muito bem escrita. Especial menção a ser dada a um capítulo que descreve o percurso da peste que começa em Alexandria, passa por Murano até chegar a Stratford upon Avon onde a filha de Shakespeare – Judith, gêmea de Hamnet – a pega...

“..O garoto para a fim de observar um homem com um macaco preso a uma corrente dourada. Por quê? Porque ele jamais viu um macaco antes...

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O grumete - filho de uma família manesa – encara o macaco e vice-versa. ...

Lágrimas marejam os olhos do grumete e o macaco, ainda a observá-lo com um olhar sensibilizado e consciente, estende a pata.

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O garoto estende a mão para o macaco, que a aceita. A força com que a agarra é surpreendente> traduz urgência, maus tratos, necessidade, carência de uma companhia gentil. O macaco sobe no braço do garoto, usando as quatro patas, monta em seus ombros e depois na cabeça, onde se senta, com as patas enterradas no cabelo do menino...

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,,, Depois, porém, o homem puxa a corrente e o macaco cai, gritando no chão de pedra do embarcadouro, onde se apruma e depois, arrastado, sai cambaleando choroso atrás do homem.

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O que o menino não sabe – não pode saber – é que o macaco deixou uma parte sua com ele. Na confusão, ele partilhou três de suas pulgas.”