Status Updates From The Beheading Game

Good luck Anne

So far the pace is much slower and more deliberate than I expected. However, I love the level of detail provided about the daily lives of ordinary people in Tudor England. I’m in love with Alice, so Anne better take care of her! Her story/introduction to the narrative reminded me a lot of the Five by Hallie Rubenhold. Can’t wait for the pace to pick up!

Alice pondered Anne’s recitation, asked her to repeat it, then went silent, thinking. “ ’Tis strange, my lady, and makes me a little sad. ‘The earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the deep.’ I think of the sea beyond the fens, deep and wide and terrible. On a calm day it seems like a person could walk across it, ’tis so smooth, but on a stormy day it can crush a ship like that, and where do the men go

The fen teemed with animals, fish, fowl. Bumps Anne thought were rocks revealed themselves to be turtles, sticking blue- or yellow-striped heads out of their shells to gaze with beady eyes before receding into the water. Flying insects hovered on bright wings, leaving behind rings of ripples where they touched the water’s surface..

The three followed the river into the fen, where a strong sulfur smell hung in the air, and a thick fog covered water and land alike,as if a cloud had descended from the sky and lowered itself upon them.Or as if they were rowing to the afterlife, as if George were not a common boatsman but Charon, that ancient ferryman shuttling the dead to Hades,or a kinder angel, Gabriel perhaps, taking Anne to her eternal reward.

I’m so sad I’m nearly finished because this book is just CINEMA