I borrowed Wolf Hall, which is lots of fun to read. Thomas Cromwell is "smoove"*. Horace seemed to enjoy a vivid excerpt describing the burning at the stake of a heretic. Because I can't get enough of Henry VIII, I also started watching The Tudors (available from Netflix: Watch Instantly), which is scandalous yet boring. Here Horace is being instructed on the color of Cardinal Wolsey's vestments:
*"But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man’s power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."
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