into my cup of hot Oxo.
Is it any wonder my blood pressure is high?
The book is finished...
"Comfort is often, he finds, imparted at the cost
of a flea or two."
Thomas Cromwell has a soft side?
What now...
A hair is caught between the pages of the book...
Mine or the dog's?
Thomas More's, more like.
The dust settles around me;
the sofa cushions fall back
as if beheaded; as my ever-increasing
buttocks vacate my ring-side seat...
Madame Defarge would have been proud.
Can I bear to wait?
Madame Defarge would have been proud.
Can I bear to wait?
I have a very weird relationship with reading. I read a lot of non-fiction but do enjoy a novel or two. However, in a weird sort of way I do not like starting a new book as then I will have read it- mmmmm that sounds a bit mad. Glad you enjoyed your book. jaynex
ReplyDeleteJayne, it doesn't sound mad to me, I know exactly what you mean. Bit like old girls with their cupboards full of virgin bed linen still in the original packaging. Death catches them out; before they've found the courage to slumber in pristine new sheets. The contents of which, sewn together... would make... a shroud to cover them;
Deletethe church, and congregation as well.
LLX
Mr N's just told me he'd intended to buy me Bring Up The Bodies for Christmas - but he'd misread the price. It was £12 not £2. Charming!
ReplyDeleteWait Nilly, until you see it in a charity shop: it's good, very good but not quite as enthrallingly (like that word... might even use it again!) written as Wolf Hall.
ReplyDeleteMy Where to Stay guide is filling up a treat - Thanks.
LLX