Goodbye Vangelis, Dame Hilary and Raymond Briggs
It’s weird how things coincide. There I was today, picking out some CDs I wanted to listen to again fromContinue Reading
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TIL: Interesting things about author Hilary Mantel and “Mantel Pieces”
Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, used to be a book reviewer. I did not know that,Continue Reading
“Nothing comes from nothing.”
Pondering creativity When you have read and reviewed many books, as I have done, you eventually realize that even theContinue Reading
The downfall of Cromwell – The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel (Part 4 of 4)
In the previous three posts, I looked deeper into the third and last part of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy.Continue Reading
What is “too long”? – The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel (Part 3 of 4)
In this post I continue to analyze the long and deeply nuanced historical novel, The Mirror and the Light. Previously,Continue Reading
Who is the mirror, and who is the light? – The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel (Part 2 of 4)
This is a post in which I continue to analyze the impressively long and deeply nuanced historical novel, The MirrorContinue Reading
Complete and intense immersion – The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel
Having read every single page in the 883-page long historical novel The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel, IContinue Reading
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Thrillers, Sci-Fi, History, Horror and Poetry – Reading list for the next six months
It’s the end of the first half of the year, and so far my reading time has been reduced byContinue Reading
SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES 