Ghosts, Liars, and Conquistadors: Six Short Reviews

Bring Up the Bodies just felt like it was a watered-down I almost want to say dumbed-down version of the same novel, just carrying on the story but without much of the technical, stylistic originality that made Wolf Hall so interesting.

I liked the novel very much. Probably, if I have to be honest, more in its concepts and its ideas than in its actual execution.

As a book, it was maybe torn a little bit between being truly insightful and impactful and being a little bit superficial at times. and the plot, especially toward the end, falls into a fairly predictable pattern of the magic was always inside you all along sort of uplifting end note, final note for the for the story, even. that said, that there was definitely lots to appreciate in here.

It's amazing. It's a masterpiece. It was fantastic.

Overall, I liked the collection, although I must say that I was a bit fatigued by the end of it.

And finally, Civilizations by Laurent Binet, whose Seventh Function of Language I really liked a couple of years back, was a really fun novel.

What a carve-up by Jonathan Coe is an awesome hilarious novel about the perfidy, the viciousness, and the evil of the media, the political class, how these people, people in positions of power, can influence society for their own gain in the most ruthless and cruel ways possible.

It feels like we're half inside his mind and half outside of it following the events from this very intriguing middle position.