Congratulations to Hilary Mantel for winning the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel, Bring Up The Bodies, the sequel to her 2009 Man Booker award-winner, Wolf Hall. Two reasons why this makes me happy: 1 – I’ve read both (shameless plugging here and here) and loved them, and 2 – for the first time, … Continue reading »
I guess I was lucky to have read Wolf Hall only last May, finishing it just in time for its sequel, Bring Up The Bodies, to be published. When I started Wolf Hall, I had no idea it was part of a trilogy. I haven’t done any research on this, but I think it is … Continue reading »
It took me a few days to get over the feeling left by David Mitchell‘s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Usually, after finishing a book, I’d jump right in to the next one, but I couldn’t quite shake off Jacob de Zoet. Even now, when I think back on it, I get a strange … Continue reading »
I’m one book closer to my goal of reading all (or most) of the Man Booker Prize winners, after reading Hilary Mantel’s novel, Wolf Hall, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 2009. I was a bit hesitant to read Wolf Hall at first. The hardbound edition is 523 pages long, and the story, set in … Continue reading »
