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Task #20: Read a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the U.S. or the UK
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last updated Dec 31, 2020 02:39PM
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It’s been a long eight years since Bring Up the Bodies was released. It was certainly worth the wait. Amazing. This book perfectly pairs with Wolf Hall in writing and character development, with the second volume a more spare link between the two. I loved how new dimensions of Cromwell’s history and character are revealed to show him in a more morally ambiguous light. His capacity for ruthlessness, evident even as a child, show him to be something other then the Renaissance man portrayed in the
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Just as good as the other books in the series. This tells of the last years of Cromwell's life when he is haunted by ghosts of his past and deals with an increasingly demanding and changeable king.
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The first new book I read in lockdown. It took me ages bc I was reading so slowly, but there is no historical character whose imagined last years I’d rather have spent those weeks with than Thomas Cromwell.
Mar 07, 2020
Terri
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