Sunday, February 19, 2023

B&N wishlist

Empty Theatre: A Novel or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty... by Jac Jemc

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/91562-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-february-20-2023.html

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Katherine Duncan-Jones' SHAKESPEARE: AN UNGENTLE LIFE

Some seventeenth-century writers estimated that barely one in 500, or even one in 1,000, lived to be sixty.

His Line of Life, p. 296

. . . more rival than enemy . . .

NOTES, p. 335