Hilary Mantel

#230 ~ Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel’s latest novel first entered my radar through an issue of BookPage, a monthly magazine made available for free from my local library. From the momemt I saw the cover (H8 may not be displayed prominently on the cover, but you can’t slip him by me) and read the [...]

Thankfully Reading ~ Day 1 Update

I hope that each and every one of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving (or just a very nice Thursday if you’re not from the US). Our Thanksgiving dinner was a smashing success. The girls and my mother-in-law were, in fact, flabbergasted by the table. The girls wanted nothing more than to help spread out the [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! For the last 6 years, Thanksgiving has been an extremely subdued holiday. There have been years in fact where we didn’t even eat a proper Thanksgiving meal. Danny’s parents are not up to the cooking much any more and ordering a catered meal has become our modus operandi. Earlier in our marriage Danny and I [...]