'The Once &
Future King' was a real slog, and not the book I was expecting at all. The
remaining books were very different in tone to 'The Sword in The Stone', and
were more musings on power politics ; in the last section, written in the dark
days of the late 1930s, the character Mordred is recognisably influenced by
contemporary events, parading round like a fascist with his followers in
blackshirts. I rather preferred the
light-hearted jocular nature of the first book.
It took a long time
to read, in part because my main reading time seems to be on the exercise bike
at work, and when the weather is good I'm outside running. With Borman's
Cromwell, I was more engaged and read a few chapters whenever I could. It comes
closely after the TV adaptation of the wonderful Wolf Hall, and it would appear
that Mark Rylance has finally replaced Kenneth Williams as Cromwell in my
mind. Neither of them physically
approximate Cromwell, if Holbein's portrait is anything to go by; such a shame
James Gandolfini isn’t around anymore - physically he would have been spot on
for the role.
Libby has had a
couple of settling-in sessions at school in recent weeks, and cannot wait for
September. When we dropped Freddie of yesterday, she didn’t want to leave for
nursery; she was clinging to the railings and screaming to be let into Mice. .
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