Willow ,'Storyteller'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
You mean you didn't already love him from 1776???!
Between 1776 and the PBS broadcast of The Adams Chronicles in the '70s, I loved both John and Abigail. I've got a signed copy of the McCullogh bio and a collection of their letters called My Dearest Friend.
I took Sara to the library and found Wolf Hall right there on the new release shelf! Score.
Yes, I was able to renew it (which allowed me to go ahead and read Hornet's Nest first). I can't believe it wasn't on hold.
I am sadly unsurprised it was available at our library.
It is huge, though. I feel like I should have started reading a week ago.
Wolf Hall was wonderful. I really loved it.
I'm really liking it so far, but it is making me wish that
1) I knew more about that period of history and
2) I had watched
The Tudors
But Mantel really makes Cromwell and the others come alive. I can't wait to read her book on the French Revolution.
I think that's why I'm so looking forward to it -- I've been interested in Tudor history forever, and we just finished watching the series.
Alison Weir's Six Wives of Henry VIII was really good for a basic overview, although it really is about him and the wives, and far less the politics and court antics. I think it was Alison Weir, anyway. I think that book is still in a box, though.
I love how sympathetic Cromwell is in her book. I knew some about that time period, but not enough about Cromwell himself. It's a lovely book.
I have just recently bought A Place of Greater Safety, which I can't wait to delve into.
I'm halfway through Wolf Hall but haven't picked it up for a couple of weeks now for some reason. Must get back to it.
I will say that Wolf Hall was occasionally extremely confusing with differentiating between every Tom.