Status Updates From Heretics and Believers: A H...

started this because i ran out of books on my reading list that i could find an audiobook version of so now im stuck listening to 36 hours (the longest audiobook i've listened to before this was 22 hours) that's NOT EVEN ON THE READING LIST it's just by an author who wrote a book on the same subject that IS on the reading list 😩😩😩

So close. We have come to the part in the story where i have no idea what is coming next. Will england forever be locked in this mix of protestant and catholic both upset at the queen? What will be the agent of change that settles this debacle? Will Queen Elizabeth ever marry and have a child or will the throne fall to catholic mary queen of scots yet again a swing in the religion of the monarchy?

King Edward is about to die. Sad. Poor kid. And I have to go to London and this book is too big to take with me. A cliff hanger, who will take the throne. What is the fate of the reformation. Tbc in a few weeks.

Henry is finally dead. PtL. He killed so many people I was really getting quite sad. Not that it will get any better moving forward.

SPOILER ALERT: Cromwell got killed. Crazy. Really did not see that coming.

I feel like I have been on a roller coaster of reformation.

We have officially separated from the pope. Henry and anne are happily married (not for loonggggg :( ). Henry is happily killing anybody how disagrees with him which is quite ghastly. Cranmer is archbishop of Canterbury - still very interested in him and what he has planned.

Henry still be supporting the papacy, but i have a feeling we are getting close to that not being the case.

1/12th we getting there. One 30 minute chunk at a time. Quite intriguing thus far although not the quickest read for sure.

Huuuge record of events and explanations. Not an easy read given the type size and the book’s physical heft so when I’m ready to get back to it I shall look at the Kindle version.

Pg 160:
“This, she realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.”

Etienne and Marie-Laurie

I’ve never heard of Margaret Beaufort and Bishop Fisher being referred to as ‘one of the early sixteenth century’s most remarkable double acts’ before 😆 is it odd that I am imagining them in a band or performing on stage now?

I feel like I should have known by now that the word ‘holiday’ comes from the phrase ‘holy day’. Oh well, you learn something new every day!

Audiobook version (which I can’t find on here)

Super excited about this one!