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I mention them more often because I can't cover as much, and sometimes
am behind or skip a given group read. So I tell of these others as
sometimes they are the same kind of book

Beyond Duke's Children restored, I'm reading The Bertrams for another
Trollope group, and following a favorite FB group of readers (TWWRN)
by watching a 1978 many episode Mayor of Casterbridge, and I read all
the postings, and try toget to the text. In some ways it seems to me
far more interesting than some of the more famous Hardys. The script
is by Dennis Potter!. I do find that often a superb adaptation can
improve on the book.

I've now begun Forster's A Passage to India for my teaching, and am
reading about the Raj, Anglo-Indian lit. I love it. Last night a
terrific documentary by Gurinder Chad on India's Partition: The
Forgotten (pr distorted) story

On my own for sheer pleasure: Janet Todd's Living with Austen. She
really is intelligent, the one is wonderfully relaxed. I often
disagree but she separates her views from the text. That's unusual

A feminist biography of Vera Brittain

The Mirror and the Light by Mantel -- along with delving into the
women therein (Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard) to discover why
Cromwell was beheaded,and I believe I've understood. He was in the
crosshairs of Henry's deranged sexual anxiety and deep shame because
he was often impotent, More on this Sunday night.

I've had to put aside for a couple of Week's Outlander 3, Voyager but
I'll get back to her, Ditto an excellent fictional biography of Water
Scott: Ragged Lion

And I attend a very few classes

Ellen

On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 11:06?AM Tyler Tichelaar via groups.io
<tyler@...> wrote:

Ellen often mentions her other projects and books she's reading. Since it's the month of Shakespeare's birthday, I am reading Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. It is quite interesting though a lot is supposition trying to fill in the likely possibilities of what happened in his life since we know so little of his biography. I also plan to read a couple of his plays before the month is out - probably Cymbeline and Timon of Athens, which I've never read before.

I've also been reading Louis Couperus' novels. I just finished Old People and The Things That Pass and think it a true masterpiece about two elderly people with a dark secret and how that effects both of their families. He is known as one of the greatest Dutch authors and far more readable than Multali and Max Havelaar.

Tyler

I'm neck-deep in a revived interest in Juana I of Castile, and am
stockpiling a slew of primary documentation related to her. It's amazing
to me how accessible some of this material has become. I remember crying
along with my parents, around 1975, because we couldn't afford a series of
medieval chronicles which we really, really wanted. They're all
available now on Google Books and Archive.org! Oh, I wish our parents,
especially our mom, were still here to take advantage of this.

Maria

On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 12:22?PM Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody=
[email protected]> wrote:

I mention them more often because I can't cover as much, and sometimes
am behind or skip a given group read. So I tell of these others as
sometimes they are the same kind of book

Beyond Duke's Children restored, I'm reading The Bertrams for another
Trollope group, and following a favorite FB group of readers (TWWRN)
by watching a 1978 many episode Mayor of Casterbridge, and I read all
the postings, and try toget to the text. In some ways it seems to me
far more interesting than some of the more famous Hardys. The script
is by Dennis Potter!. I do find that often a superb adaptation can
improve on the book.

I've now begun Forster's A Passage to India for my teaching, and am
reading about the Raj, Anglo-Indian lit. I love it. Last night a
terrific documentary by Gurinder Chad on India's Partition: The
Forgotten (pr distorted) story

On my own for sheer pleasure: Janet Todd's Living with Austen. She
really is intelligent, the one is wonderfully relaxed. I often
disagree but she separates her views from the text. That's unusual

A feminist biography of Vera Brittain

The Mirror and the Light by Mantel -- along with delving into the
women therein (Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard) to discover why
Cromwell was beheaded,and I believe I've understood. He was in the
crosshairs of Henry's deranged sexual anxiety and deep shame because
he was often impotent, More on this Sunday night.

I've had to put aside for a couple of Week's Outlander 3, Voyager but
I'll get back to her, Ditto an excellent fictional biography of Water
Scott: Ragged Lion

And I attend a very few classes

Ellen

On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 11:06?AM Tyler Tichelaar via groups.io
<tyler@...> wrote:

Ellen often mentions her other projects and books she's reading. Since

it's the month of Shakespeare's birthday, I am reading Stephen Greenblatt's
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. It is quite
interesting though a lot is supposition trying to fill in the likely
possibilities of what happened in his life since we know so little of his
biography. I also plan to read a couple of his plays before the month is
out - probably Cymbeline and Timon of Athens, which I've never read before.

I've also been reading Louis Couperus' novels. I just finished Old

People and The Things That Pass and think it a true masterpiece about two
elderly people with a dark secret and how that effects both of their
families. He is known as one of the greatest Dutch authors and far more
readable than Multali and Max Havelaar.

Tyler