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Jan. 4th, 2013 04:32 pmCatch-up booklogging from last year: Bring Up the Bodies, and also Wolf Hall, because I knew if I tried to read Bring Up the Bodies without rereading Wolf Hall I would realize two chapters in that I had forgotten everything about everything.
So remember that time when I read Wolf Hall and I was like 'wow, I finished a Mantel book and I don't feel crushingly depressed! I don't know how to react to this! Hilary Mantel, have you grown as a writer and a person?'
. . . yeah, that did not happen at the end of Bring Up the Bodies.
If I was going to boil it down to one sentence, I guess I would say that Wolf Hall is a book about Thomas Cromwell being a person, and Bring Up the Bodies is a book about how he kind of stops being a person.
( Can you spoil this book? Spoiler-cut anyway, just in case! )
By the way: Wolf Hall miniseries? Is it possible that this will be good? Or is it just going to be the BBC sticking their tongue out at Showtime and going "nyah nyah our historical accuracy is better than yours?" Or, alternately, is it going to be Sexy Tudors: Electric Boogaloo? I don't know how to feel!
So remember that time when I read Wolf Hall and I was like 'wow, I finished a Mantel book and I don't feel crushingly depressed! I don't know how to react to this! Hilary Mantel, have you grown as a writer and a person?'
. . . yeah, that did not happen at the end of Bring Up the Bodies.
If I was going to boil it down to one sentence, I guess I would say that Wolf Hall is a book about Thomas Cromwell being a person, and Bring Up the Bodies is a book about how he kind of stops being a person.
( Can you spoil this book? Spoiler-cut anyway, just in case! )
By the way: Wolf Hall miniseries? Is it possible that this will be good? Or is it just going to be the BBC sticking their tongue out at Showtime and going "nyah nyah our historical accuracy is better than yours?" Or, alternately, is it going to be Sexy Tudors: Electric Boogaloo? I don't know how to feel!
