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Books

The Year of Reading Women: Hilary Mantel

Post author By Karo
Post date Tuesday, May 27th, 2014
8 Comments on The Year of Reading Women: Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel makes for a good literary celebrity around here: She’s won the Booker Prize twice, and the stage adaptations of her winning books are doing well. She’s progressed so far in the celebrity circus that her views are now “controversial” (the media love bringing up her words about the Duchess of Cambridge, although nobody […]

Tags 21st century, A Place of Greater Safety, An Experiment in Love, Beyond Black, Bring Up The Bodies, Duchess of Cambridge, hilary mantel, historical fiction, medium, psychic, Thomas Cromwell, tudors, wolf hall, Year of Reading women

Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: 3/8

Today, dear ones, I want to know: What would you die for? I know, that’s getting a little deep for a Tuesday afternoon but it’s been on my mind.

Tags act of succession, death decision, deep thoughts, different religious beliefs, gruesome death, life and death, lighten up hattie, logical extreme, role model, sir thomas more, tudors, tuesday afternoon

Pop Culture

Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover

Post author By Hattie McDoogal
Post date Thursday, January 20th, 2011
2 Comments on Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover

So who here has ever tried giving up TV, either for a set period of time or permanently? The only time I ever tried was one year in high school when I gave up “active” TV watching for Lent. What that meant was I could never pick watching television as my own activity; however, if […]

Tags grand scheme of things, hungover, leisure activity, netflix, office job, pop culture, random musing, secret lover, sensory overload, tudors, TV, tv watcher, watching television