Hilary Mantel has won the Booker Prize this year (which includes a cheque for £50,000!) for her book "Wolf Hall". Anyone read this book yet? It's a Tudor history novel so I want to read it eventually, though it's set in Henry VIII's court rather than the Elizabethan one, the latter being the one I'm rooted in at present ( Read more... )

I'm in a better mood today. I am a bit concerned about my mood swings at the moment. When I get near my period I seem to just snap and get very angry, or very moody, or very tearful, and my God, it's irritating. It's irrational, too! I think it's just my stupid hormones. I wish they'd lay off. I never used to have this problem, I swear I didn't ( Read more... )

I actually laughed this morning before work, when I was passing twenty minutes or so by reading one of my new history books. I find history entertaining, but rarely do I find it funny enough to chortle at. It does throw you off, though, when your eyes suddenly alight upon the sentence: "Others like Francis Walsingham had shoes thrown at them" (the ( Read more... )