I took Sara to the library and found Wolf Hall right there on the new release shelf! Score.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Amy - Jul 19, 2010 12:27:56 pm PDT #11758 of 28343
Because books.
megan walker - Jul 19, 2010 12:47:16 pm PDT #11759 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Amy - Jul 19, 2010 12:51:27 pm PDT #11760 of 28343
Because books.
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.
Kat - Jul 19, 2010 4:59:13 pm PDT #11761 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Wolf Hall was wonderful. I really loved it.
megan walker - Jul 19, 2010 6:54:40 pm PDT #11762 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Amy - Jul 19, 2010 7:07:36 pm PDT #11763 of 28343
Because books.
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.
Kat - Jul 19, 2010 7:35:37 pm PDT #11764 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
Jars - Jul 19, 2010 11:58:35 pm PDT #11765 of 28343
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.
Kat - Jul 20, 2010 6:59:50 pm PDT #11766 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I will say that Wolf Hall was occasionally extremely confusing with differentiating between every Tom.
Amy - Jul 20, 2010 7:02:24 pm PDT #11767 of 28343
Because books.
I'm barely past the beginning, with his dad, but I'm really liking the conversational style. It feels historic without getting bogged down in overly formal structure.