You ever have a book on your TBR for so long that by the time you get to it, you don't really remember what it's about or why you wanted to read it?

Haha, yeah... me neither...

Anyway, completely unrelated to that: I put off reading this for the longest time because I thought it was one of those 'following a couple throughout their life together' stories, and I grabbed it from the shelves* just now on impulse, only to realize that's not what it's about at all! So, my next read it is.

*in my house, not the store

#themarriageportrait #maggieofarrell #booklover #bookstodon #readersofpixelfed

#Hamnet

🎬 #ChloéZhao #JessieBuckley #PaulMescal #MaggieOFarrell

🎵 #MaxRichter

La buena música y el buen cine se han reencontrado, y eso me produce una inmensa alegría.

Great music and great cinema have reunited, and that brings me immense joy.

#WilliamShakespeare #Cine #Movies #Música #Music #BandasSonoras #Soundtracks #Teatro #Theater

More heartache than Hamnet?: Maggie O’Farrell’s best books – ranked!

As her Women’s prize-winning novel heads to the Oscars, we rate the author’s best work – from tales of new motherhood to a life-affirming memoir of mortality

The Guardian

Lads. I went to see Hamnet at the weekend, and I am NOT WELL after it. Everyone in the cinema was BAWLING.

Great film, but sweet jesus, I'm sorry I watched while doing dry January.

😭 😭 😭

#Hamnet #Film #Books #MaggieOFarrell #JessieBuckley #PaulMescal

#PaulMescal is #WilliamShakespeare alongside #JessieBuckley (who portray his wife) in the #ChloéZhao directed and co-written #Hamnet based upon #MaggieO'Farrell 's novel - #EmilyWatson, #JoeAlwyn and #NoahJupe also star in the historical drama I watched at #HOMEmcr.

📽 Mit #HAMNET kehrt 🎬 #Oscar®-Gewinnerin #ChloéZhao auf die grosse Leinwand zurück. In der Verfilmung des gefeierten 📖 Romans von #MaggieOFarrell wird die Geschichte von 🎭 #WilliamShakespeares Familie erzählt.

👉 Jetzt im early.bird und ab Do, 22. Januar 2026 im regulären kult.kino Programm zu sehen: https://www.kultkino.ch/film/hamnet/

📚 📚 📚 📚 📚
"Whether you are a fan of the novel or film, here are five of O’Farrell’s best books for Hamnet fans." https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/01/12/if-you-loved-hamnet-here-are-five-other-great-maggie-ofarrell-reads/

Lesen werde ich wohl zuerst "This must be the place" (deutsch "Hier muss es sein", übersetzt von Kathrin Razum).

#MaggieOFarrell #Hamnet #LesenMachtFreude

If you loved Hamnet, here are five other great Maggie O’Farrell reads

If Hamnet’s recent success has inspired you to delve deeper into Maggie O’Farrell’s bibliography, then here’s a good guide

The Irish Times
Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy

Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama

The Guardian

Hamnet: touching & beautiful, but take tissues

Hamnet is a magnificent film – beautiful, touching, brilliant. I have no doubt that it will earn many best picture awards from various places. My question is will Chloé Zhao also win as many awards as best director, because she deserves it for this outstanding work. There are a couple of spoilers ahead. […]

https://oldaintdead.com/hamnet-touching-beautiful-but-take-tissues/