I've been a compulsive reader, writer and theatre goer all my life. My book blog is here: http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/ Mostly food at the moment but also knitting is here: http://cathyingeneva.wordpress.com/
Such a dreadful book - paranoid vitriol on every page - that I've let it put me off having any positive thoughts about the man. Evidently I have to change my tune and read his series on his predecessors, even if the point of it is to indirectly bignote himself. Okay, okay. I will have nothing but the most open of minds. Really.