I’m really not very good at “directed” reading – you just have to look at the number of challenges I’ve started and failed at over the almost five years this blog has been underway. But I am determined to really crack on with the read-a-long of Wolf Hall which is being hosted by Coffee and a Book Chick from tomorrow until the middle of December. This is due to the extreme embarrassment of having bought the book as soon as it came out in hardback and being too scared to start reading it in case I don’t like it.
After all, the sixteenth century is one of my things (my degree dissertation was on Philip II as King of England 1554-1558) so I should have leaped into reading this with some abandon.
Except I didn’t.
But now that I have a girl crush on Hilary Mantel and someone is telling me how much to read and when, surely, surely I should be able to do this?
The schedule is as follows:
- November 28: Reading commences on or before
- December 4: Progress post for Parts 1 & 2
- December 11: Progress post for Parts 3 & 4
- December 18: Final Progress post for Parts 5 & 6
Wish me luck!
Bride of the Book God 
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November 27, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Biblibio
Wolf Hall is pure excellence. Seriously. I don’t think you’ll need any luck getting through it, but I do hope you enjoy it (and I furthermore hope that I’m not adding to the pressure by going on and on about how amazing it is…). As a fellow reader incapable of “directed’ reading, I sympathize. I’m gradually learning to accept my inability to plan my reading and just go with it, but it isn’t always pleasant (or easy)…
November 28, 2011 at 5:37 am
Susan
Good luck! I have the book on my shelf waiting to be read, so if you read yours, I will be the last one left who bought it that year and hasn’t read it yet….. š
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