Week 3: (Nov. 12 to 16) – Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert (Katie at Doing Dewey): Three ways to join in this week! You can either share three or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert).
Well, a wonderful person over on LibraryThing has offered to tutor me in the Wolf Hall trilogy next year, so starting January, I’ll be reading the whole trilogy at 50 pages a week. (If anybody wishes to join me in this journey, let me know! Buddy reads are always fun.) I’ll be supplementing my reading with the following nonfiction books:
Hibernator's Library 
These look fascinating.
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Thanks Deb!
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Interesting reading! Those books look good. I read a few books on The English Civil War and The Restoration but I have yet to read a biography of Cromwell.
The Wolf Hall books also look good. Happy reading!
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I think the Civil War and Restoration involved Oliver Cromwell and not Thomas Cromwell? Or am I wrong about that. I’m not the historian that I wish I were. Thomas Cromwell was in power during the English Reformation.
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I can’t wait to FINALLY be able to read the last book of this trilogy, we have been waiting far too long for it
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Yeah, I’m looking forward to it too! You’re welcome to join me for a buddy read, though I’ll be working through it slowly.
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I’m so excited about the this book finally coming out next year & was wondering if I would have the time to fit in a reread of the first 2 – I’m very, very tempted!
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Well, feel free to join, it would be fun to have you. 🙂
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I have read Mantel’s two first books Wolf Hall and Bring in the Bodies. I did not know that the third one was out. I loved the two first ones. Have read a lot about Henry VIII so I am taking a break from him now. But fascinating character and fascinating times. Good luck.
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The third book comes out in March. By the time I finish the first two books again, it’ll be out. 🙂
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I have the Wolf Hall trilogy but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.
Please stop by to see my NonFicNov: Become The Expert
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It’s good, though some people find it quite the slog to get through. That’s why I decided to read it slowly this time. I can savor the good aspects of it without being overwhelmed by history I’m not overly familiar with.
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I’ve already preordered book 3 in the series!!!
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Haven’t preordered yet, but I’ll certainly get to it this year!
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I really enjoyed Six Wives and I hope you do too! I love pairing fiction with nonfiction and Wolf Hall is one I’d like to get to too 🙂
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Wolf Hall is good, though I wish I understood the historical context better!
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