Friday 16 October 2009

Wolf Hall


I just finished reading "Wolf Hall" by Hillary Mantel. Wow, what a gritty big read.

















After watching The Tudors and reading Wolf Hall, I think I'm getting more and more interested in this period of English history. The painting above is by Hans Holbein the Younger. And on top of that is actor James Frain as he is seen playing "The Crom" in the series The Tudors. Ive always thought Frain was great after seeing him in Shadowlands.







Saturday 14 February 2009

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf


"For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents, and at the same time a grown woman coming to her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, 'This is what I have mad of it! This!' And what had she made of it?"