Why is it that when I finally had the time to go to a Fully Booked branch to buy myself a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, they ran out of stock? Why oh why does this kind of shit happen to me? :/

Item the First: This site is driving me nutso, in that I'm starting to have irreverent mental commentaries in the form of lists whenever I observe things happening around me. Help?

Item the Second: Last Wednesday, on the 26th of August in the Year of Our Lord 2009, I, along with Kari, eviscerated a very dead, and very pregnant, cat. Also, we broke ( Read more... )

I was re-reading Emma earlier and now I'm starting to wonder how the events of the novel would have played out if Emma had been presented at court, or at least experienced a Season in town. Would she be more or less high-handed and snobbish as she is in the novel?

Hm. Thoughts to ponder on.

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Just finished watching the mad but brilliant 4-part show Lost in Austen, wherein Amanda Price, 21st-century girl, encounters Elizabeth Bennet in her bathtub addressing her as "Ms. Spencer" ("It's written on your underclothes!") and swaps places with her. It's filled with anachronisms and plays around with canon ("Hear that sound? That's the sound ( Read more... )

I scoured youtube for the American ending of P&P3, and it was a huge mess of DO NOT WANT. D:

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I can forgive this version's Darcy calling Miss Bingley "Caroline" (um...NO), or this version's Bingley going inside Jane's bedroom while she's in her sleep-clothes (DOUBLE NO), but that clip? Totally unforgiveable.

Thank goodness I watched the real ( Read more... )