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Posted by Elizabeth Kennedy on July 2nd, 2010

The kids are out of school and looking to be entertained.  The temperatures are creeping up into the mid 90s.  We’re staying up late enjoying the long, light summer evenings.  Between the heat, late nights and kid chaos, I’ve lost all motivation.  I’ve been way too lethargic to lift fingers to keyboard.  All this laziness has been the perfect excuse to enjoy some great books, though.  I’m pulling myself (very briefly) out of summer slacking mode to reveal how my reading hours have been spent.

 

Like drama and intrigue?  Get yourself a fix by reading a book set in Tudor England.  Phillipa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl has been out long enough to have been made into a movie, but I just barely got to the book (which is better than the movie).  The novel tells the story of Henry the 8th and his second wife Anne Boleyn from the perspective of Mary Boleyn, Anne’s sister and a former mistress to the king.  While it often reads like a typical historical romance, Gregory does a great job of examining the dilemmas particular to women in 16th century England. 

 

If you prefer a more literary take on essentially the same story, read Hillary Mantel’s Wolf Hall.  This winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize (more or less the English equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) recounts the oft told tale of Henry and Anne, but it's really the story of the generally vilified nemesis of Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell.  Cromwell led a fascinating and in many ways tragic life and Mantel does an excellent job of portraying him as both sympathetic and fallibly human.  While Anne Boleyn is a secondary figure in Mantel’s book, her portrait of the ill-fated queen is much more nuanced than that of Gregory; Gregory’s evil villainess is really just a caricature.  

 

I’m always eager to read a book with local ties.  As the title of BYU graduate Brady Udall’s most recent novel, The Lonely Polygamist, suggests, his critically acclaimed work most definitely has themes central to Utah history and culture.  I picked up this book wondering how successful Udall would be in making his central character, Golden Richards, a husband to four and father to twenty eight, who still manages time to develop an extra marital relationship, at all likeable.  Udall succeeds admirably in creating Golden and his other characters.  I came to like Golden, and pity him too, even while finding him immensely frustrating at times.  The story is told from three viewpoints, those of Golden, his fourth wife Trish, and one of his sons, eleven-year old Rusty.  Trish is well-drawn and relatable, but it is Rusty who steals the show (and stole my heart).  I challenge any reader to get through this book without tears and without wishing you could give Rusty a much-needed hug.  Bottom line: Udall succeeds in making the sprawling Richards family and their many struggles (some of them tragic) seem familiar, even in their oddity
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