What are you reading this week of November 1, 2015?

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6. I'm just getting near the end of Lamentation

This is the 6th book in the Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom.

Shardlake is a lawyer and a commoner in the years of Henry VIII starting as an agent of Thomas Cromwell in book I and now coming up near the time of Henry's death in book VI. In this book he's working for Queen Catherine Parr and trying to find a copy of a book that was stolen from her room. She and her family are worried that publication of the radical text might be bad enough to cause Henry and the conservatives that surround him to have her killed.

It's a great series, a lot of fun and a pretty good examination of life during the time of the Tudors from the point of view of a commoner with access (not always welcome) to the royal court.

Queen Catherine Parr did actually write a book called The Lamentations of a Sinner in 1547 but it was not published until 1548, after the death of Henry VIII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamentations_of_a_Sinner