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Hilary Mantel: The Mirror & the Light (Hardcover, 2020, Henry Holt and Company)

“If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?”

England, …

Review of 'The Mirror & the Light' on 'Goodreads'

It took me close to a year to finish this one -- I grabbed the Kindle version shortly after getting my Paperwhite. Wolf Hall was one of my first Kindle ebooks back in the day. Like Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, I thoroughly enjoyed the imagery, the details of England in the reign of Henry VIII; however, it's a long book (over 700 pages) and the cast of characters as usual was hard to track at times, and slowed me down. I also was of course dreading Cromwell's inevitable downfall and execution, which was rapid, although foreshadowed in numerous ways in the previous years before.

Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns (2010, Random House)

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the …

Review of 'The Warmth of Other Suns' on 'Goodreads'

I've been meaning to read for years,and finally ordered a copy for my staycation this week. It is a great book, covering a massive demographic shift, "the Great Migration" of African-Americans from the South to the North and West, through the frame of three specific oral histories of three different people who made the move. I had to put it down at times because I was reading too fast.

Looking forward to Isabel Wilkerson's upcoming boo.