tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post170822018328850080..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: More on Thomas CromwellDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-47908619047368969502020-08-28T09:24:50.684+01:002020-08-28T09:24:50.684+01:00Always inspired by top recommendations, and 'T...Always inspired by top recommendations, and 'The Warmth of Other Suns' is on the list. First I have some wading to do for Arts Desk reviews - just got Alex Ross's 'Wagnermania,' and a bit more excited by a new study of Ravenna. Just finished Isabella Tree's 'Wilding', revelatory, on what happened when she and her husband turned a big farm in Sussex over to natural development.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-16345246632344509992020-08-27T21:45:49.545+01:002020-08-27T21:45:49.545+01:00Always interesting to get a report of your current...Always interesting to get a report of your current reading. Glad to have a bit of the "blanks" filled in the last volume of the Mantel trilogy from your report on the Cromwell biography, and to be reminded of Moravia's The Conformist, which I have added to my too-long list of books to read. I know what you mean about reading a big biography. I took on David Blight's excellent, illuminating biography of Frederick Douglass recently, and that took me quite a while. I followed it with "The Warmth of Other Suns," by Isabel Wilkerson, about the Great Migration (of African Americans from South to North after the collapse of post Civil War Reconstruction). That turned out to be a page-turner--she's a marvelous storyteller, herself a child of parents who made their way North, and used as her frame the stories of three others who made the journey. Just fascinating, if you're in the least interested in the topic. After several false starts with various novels, I've most recently been reading, in library loan ebook form, Strange Hauntings (nonfiction), about 5 women who, at various times, lived on Mecklenburg Square. I enjoyed the author's set-up, but I only found the first "bio," about H.D., of middling interest. I may ditch it for a while, as the local library (which, hooray, is open again), has alerted me that a mystery I had on order, Blanche on the Lam, has just come in. (I'm always happier reading a "hard copy" over an "ebook.") Reading is a found-again refuge during these fraught times, though I would be better served if I did not so often start reading at bedtime! Susan Scheidhttps://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-74646986504749662292020-08-14T21:18:01.081+01:002020-08-14T21:18:01.081+01:00Don't think I'm neglecting to write about ...Don't think I'm neglecting to write about the sudden death of our dear friend, whom so many readers will miss (though not half as much as we will). I just need to find the right words and images. <br /><br />NOW is a nasty period in history too - though, in this country at least, without the sudden despatch of anyone of whom the leaders don't approve. What a whimsical monster was HVIII - imagine the capricious stupidity of the Borump in that context.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-82831902490229930942020-08-14T20:25:25.396+01:002020-08-14T20:25:25.396+01:00David, Very Interesting...It was a nasty period in...David, Very Interesting...It was a nasty period in history.. ONE shall miss the comments of Mr David Damant about your blog.Liam mansfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07788263195389627235noreply@blogger.com