1. I finished reading Frankenstein. Weirdly, it was pretty much exactly what I expected - my only real exposure to the story apart from, you know, pop culture images, is from seeing Branagh's movie when it originally came out, which is mostly told from Victor's perspective, and then more recently the National Theatre filmed production, which leans ( Read more... )

Watched Atonement yesterday (in the virtual company of evila_elf). I'd heard vaguely favourable things about the movie in general, but Keira Knightley leaves me Kompletely Kold, so I wasn't really looking forward to it. However, the last-minute discovery that James McAvoy was in it lifted my spirits immensely, because I've found him very watchable in the ( Read more... )

Have been resisting the pull of Sherlock fandom thus far, only not very well. I'm still not interested in reading fanfic yet, but I've ended up watching vids and reading discussion instead. So I thought I'd post a round-up of things I have enjoyed lately for the benefit of the less obsessive *g*:

Seen via trickseybird - "Sherlock in Love" (by deductism). Um, ( Read more... )