Books by Hilary Mantel
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review 1: The historical plausibility is astonishing, you start to feel you inhabit this world and start to adopt its norms, it's fear of disease, the constant references to authority (of God or king), the jockeying for position and how the common man is almost unseen. It struck me how eru...
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review 1: A collection of ten short stories that make you realize how much the author must be reining herself in when she writes historical fiction about Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. These are not horror stories, but they are nightmarish and very unsettling, each of them with an air of ...
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review 1: Not my kind of book. We read it for book club and for me, it was a chore, a long chore. There were a lot of beautiful passages, but that wasn't enough to engage me. I didn't care much for Cromwell or anyone else for that matter. I'm not much one for royalty or their hangers-on. I...
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review 1: I liked Wolf Hall a bit better, even though this second book read much quicker now that I had figured out the style of the writing. The main issue is that this story is so familiar now, even if the details of Anne Boleyn's demise are slightly different. It was interesting to se...
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review 1: I love story collections and take my time with them, never reading straight through, savoring each one in between chapters of other books on my night stand. Not so with Booker Award winner Hilary Mantel's The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. I gobbled these quirky, dark, bri...