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I finally finished The Mirror and the Light (Book 3 of the Wolf Hall trilogy) last week. Been reading it on and off for 18 months now and finally put in the effort to finish it. A great book, but...dense. Currently halfway through Station Eleven for something a bit easier to read.
12 is a great number, I think that's the sum total of the number of books I've read in the past two years 😅
I have had both the Wolf Hall series and Station Eleven on my to-read list for a long time. But the Wolf Hall ones are so big that I haven’t been able to bring myself to. And Station Eleven got pushed riiiiiight down to the bottom of the list when the pandemic hit and I couldn’t bring myself to read anything about devastating flus and stuff. In march 2020 I was half way through World War Z. I’ve still not been able to go back to it.
12 is a massive number for me too. I’ve made a really conscious effort to replace screen time with book time this year and a friend and I decided to do a book club this year, so it’s been keeping me accountable
station 11 is amazing.
Yeah I’ve heard very good thing about it. It’s been on my to-read list since about 2016, I reckon. I’ll get around to it one day
i was in a reading rut, and station 11 smashed it out of the park. brilliant book.