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Cameron Chase maceron — This book hit the spot...a nice balance of humor, sorrow, strength, adventure and love. Great imagery. Easy to read and uplifting.

Zach Spangler zacharyrspangler — I absolutely LOVED this novel. It is mostly about Henry VIII's quest to be rid of Katherine and his struggle to marry Anne. However, even as I write this sentence I know that is the backdrop for the story of Thomas [not Oliver] Cromwell's role in Henry's reign. The point of view is third person limited with the great focus on Cromwell. Therefore, although some of his decisions are cruel, I admired him. The novel starts with seven year old Thomas Cromwell's face being kicked into the cobbles of the street by his cruel father, a blacksmith. He was never able to live down the fact he was the son of a blacksmith, but that fact notwithstanding, he rose to unheard of power in Henry's reign. There was a very thoughtful side of his character that I loved. This novel cannot be read quickly. Part of the reason is the multitude of characters, whom the author categorizes by place in the front of the book. Even as I read pages in the 400's, I had to go back to those lists to remember who was who. Another difficulty is the author overuses "he" at times when she should have used Cromwell's name. Often I had to go back to the beginning of a paragraph to clarify who the "he" was. I need to think further about the title. I don't think it was a symbol of Cromwell or Henry. "Wolf Hall" is the name of the Seymours' home. Jane Seymour is a plain, little, timid lady in waiting to Anne. Cromwell likes her perhaps BECAUSE Anne overlooks her because of her timidness. I expected the novel to end with Henry's growing interest in Jane. However, the novel simply ends with Cromwell planning a five day stop for the king's retinue at Wolf Hall. History tells us that was quite an important layover! In spite of those two comments, I did LOVE this novel. I had the patience to read it after flying through eight novels in our two weeks at Lake George.

Supawadee Vitoorapakorn _allyaeroklas — This is a diary compiled from 150 students in Long Beach, CA. They were almost all at-risk kids in gangs, who lived in the projects, and generally were expected to drop out of high school and not live to see 18 or be in jail. Enter the preppy very white idealistic Erin Gruwell who was a brand new teacher fresh out of college. She gets the idea to teach them about the Holocaust after a racist drawing of one student gets passed around the class. After that it picks up, and soon her students are writing journals, reading the Diary of Anne Frank, and meeting with Holocaust survivors. It transforms their lives and that of their teacher as well. This book is a compilation of the student's diaries and follows them through the four years they stay with Ms Gruwell. It is pretty amazing to see the changes that many of them go through and also painful to read about some of the horrific experiences they went through. Sometimes I wonder if the students without horrific experiences felt in that class. Did they feel left out? But no - everyone experiences intolerance or "wrong" situations in life, and these students now have a heightened awareness of this. It's pretty amazing at the end, to read how these students are going to Harvard and Stanford, and so on. I'm a little disappointed that the teacher left the high school after that to go teach at a university, but in theory she is training a lot more teachers her style of teaching now. But I would be more powerfully impressed if she had stayed at Long Beach and done it for another 4 years with another 150 students. But perhaps she is helping 1500 students with her new foundation.