Z.’s Reviews > Wolf Hall > Status Update
Z.
is 81% done
I've been reading a lot but not posting much here. Embarking on the final 20%, and still enjoying the ride. I'd post some quotes, but the whole thing is so quotable I couldn't possibly choose.
— Oct 19, 2016 12:12PM
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Z.
is 56% done
Taking this slowly (as it deserves) but I’m happy to confirm that almost a decade after my first go-round it’s still one of the best novels I’ve read.
— Jul 22, 2025 02:35PM
Z.
is 8% done
"Why does everything you know, and everything you've learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas is my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more. With every month that passes, the corners are knocked off the certainties of this world: and the next world too."
— Jun 08, 2025 05:51PM
Z.
is 84% done
"'And look, Gregory, it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.'"
— Oct 21, 2016 08:46AM
Z.
is 53% done
Mantel's writing is enviable, and her treatment of 16th-century London is rich and vivid (if somewhat confusing at times, especially with all the Marys and Thomases running around). I just hope I don't get burned out before the end, since this is quite the tome. I think a mid-novel intermission (aka, another, shorter read before continuing to the end of this one) might be order soon.
— Oct 07, 2016 07:39PM