Book stuff

discworld announces that the next Tiffany Aching book will come out in March of '06, tentatively titled Wintersmith. This will be roughly 6 months after the release of Thud, a Watch novel. (I'm getting the impression that there will be no adult Witch novels while the Tiffany series is running.)

BBC History has a fun review for Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court 1547-1558 by David Loades. Quoting Christopher Haigh:

"The Little Tudors have not had much attention. Squashed between Henry the much-married and Elizabeth the unmarried, Edward the too-young-to-marry and Mary the unhappily married have looked pretty dull. Their reigns seemed a disgression from the proper course of English history: left turn, about face, then on th where we should have been doing anyway. The middle years of the century were just a quick sequence of the Good Duke (Somerset), the Bad Duke (Northumberland) and Bloody Mary - though recently they've been revamped as the not-so-good Duke, the not-so-bad Duke, and bloody-but-well-meaning Mary."

I just liked that phrasing. The rest of the review is reads rather like Haigh, an Oxford history professor, is correcting Loades' thesis; he considers the book to be detailed but flawed by making everyone out to be a "goody-goody" rather than focusing on "what a dramatic dozen years they were, with the first royal minority in England for more than a century and the first queen regent ever."

And finally, the offer to sell review books in return for Team Wench pledges will end on Friday; I need the space and I'll be packing them up for the AAUW this weekend.