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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
Brutal novela de esta autora que no conocía. Me dicen que es su mejor texto y no me extraña. Hamnet es tan bueno que me da miedo empezar otra novela suya porque intuyo que esto es insuperable. No entro en la trama porque es de sobra conocida y si no lo es por aquí encontrarás reseñas para todo los gustos y sinopsis. Pero lo que más me ha gustado es el cómo lo cuenta. Es una novela de relaciones familiares en un entorno rural del mil quinientos y algo. La descripción del espacio y cómo lo rodea de ese misticismo mágico o curanderismo o como quieras llamarle es la leche. El personaje de Agnes es para llevárselo a casa o, como he leído en la reseña de Juan Jurado, convierte al mismísimo Shakespeare en secundario. Como también comenta Juan el espacio dedicado a la propagación de la peste a través de una pulga es para hacer un doctorado sobre cómo se puede contar tan bien y con tanto hype. Aunque más corto, lo mismo sentí con el relato del primer encuentro íntimo entre los protagonistas, ese cuarto de manzanas en movimiento me pareció de una evocación sin igual. En resumen, una novela redonda y larga (en España han reducido el grosor disminuyendo mucho el tamaño de la tipografía para que no meta miedo) de la que puedes despegar el ojo hasta terminar.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely heartbreaking in the most relatable way. Anyone who has lost a loved one will find that Maggie O’Farrell has the words to describe an indescribable grief.
emotional
reflective
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
wow. this book was so beautiful and moving. the prose was so artfully crafted and poetic. i was brought to tears multiple times. agnes felt so real as a character even when the book as a whole felt very dreamlike while reading. i really loved the bouncing between time and perspective throughout the book and i thought the choice to never refer to shakespeare by name was so clever and if i hadn’t gone into the book knowing it was about him, i wouldn’t have known until the last chapter. i love that this wasn’t a book about shakespeare and his family and their lives, but rather a book about love and loss and family that happens to be set within the family of shakespeare. in summary, such a beautifully written and emotionally moving book, would recommend to anyone and every one.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely marvellous. Shakespeare's name is never mentioned but is present all throughout. I felt what Agnes felt, I heard, I smelled, I knew how it was to be her. At a little life of sixteen, I do not know what it is to lose a child, but I know what it is to only be whole when the other is there.
"What is the word, - Judith asks her mother- for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin?"
"What is the word, - Judith asks her mother- for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin?"
reading this while in england was the best decision i could’ve made. honestly i’ve never been a fan of shakespeare, but this book makes me want to read and watch and learn it all. it was so good please read it
Audiobook. Very beautifully written and very sad. I loved all the plant elements, of course. At times O'Farrell's descriptions of Agnes reminded me of Alice Hoffman. The scene in the apple store is remarkable.
emotional
reflective
sad
“She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.”
I approached this book expecting to learn a lot about Shakespeare— yet, I’ve learned a whole lot about weird plants.
Am I complaining? Yes. In this book Agnes was the typical “unlike other girls” witchy woman, and I don’t understand why they had to make her all “magical” and all that… it isn’t really historically accurate.
Shakespeare could be easily replaced by ANY other man who goes to London and… does something artistic?? I don’t know, in the book it was barely explained.
Hamnet & his sister dynamic was cute, though.
⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5
I approached this book expecting to learn a lot about Shakespeare— yet, I’ve learned a whole lot about weird plants.
Am I complaining? Yes. In this book Agnes was the typical “unlike other girls” witchy woman, and I don’t understand why they had to make her all “magical” and all that… it isn’t really historically accurate.
Shakespeare could be easily replaced by ANY other man who goes to London and… does something artistic?? I don’t know, in the book it was barely explained.
Hamnet & his sister dynamic was cute, though.
⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5