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2025 re-read ★★★★★
In 2016 I doggedly ploughed through this novel on my own, gave it 3.5★, and said I couldn't imagine reading it again. Yet here we are... So what happened? I discovered Footnotes & Tangents - that's what happened! After such a wonderful slow-reading experience with Simon Haisell at F&T in 2024, I decided to take the plunge and spend 20 weeks immersed in the French Revolution once again, under his expert guidance. Wow, what a difference it made! I still didn't fully understand wh ...more
In 2016 I doggedly ploughed through this novel on my own, gave it 3.5★, and said I couldn't imagine reading it again. Yet here we are... So what happened? I discovered Footnotes & Tangents - that's what happened! After such a wonderful slow-reading experience with Simon Haisell at F&T in 2024, I decided to take the plunge and spend 20 weeks immersed in the French Revolution once again, under his expert guidance. Wow, what a difference it made! I still didn't fully understand wh ...more
The revolution that cannibalised itself!
My edition had 985 pages, and I'm a slow reader, so to have come to the end of this novel in 2.5 weeks has left me feeling a bit shell-shocked. I've decided to give it 3.5★ because although I enjoyed it, I can't imagine ever wanting to re-read it, and that's one of my tests for 4★.
Being a huge fan of the Wolf Hall (soon-to-be) trilogy, I was really interested to see how this earlier example of Mantel's epic, speculative, historical fiction compared. My con ...more
My edition had 985 pages, and I'm a slow reader, so to have come to the end of this novel in 2.5 weeks has left me feeling a bit shell-shocked. I've decided to give it 3.5★ because although I enjoyed it, I can't imagine ever wanting to re-read it, and that's one of my tests for 4★.
Being a huge fan of the Wolf Hall (soon-to-be) trilogy, I was really interested to see how this earlier example of Mantel's epic, speculative, historical fiction compared. My con ...more
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