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What are you reading now?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Generally I am an Austen watcher rather than an Austen reader (defriend me now, I know). This might be the only one I've actually read by her, and that was years ago. It's wonderful on re-read -- I mean, what can I say that hasn't already been said? But I've been ( Read more... )

Oh, man. I finally got into Pottermore and was happily clicking around, then left the house to run an errand, and now I'm back and the site is down for updates. Where is magic when you need it ( Read more... )

I had a book review written up but not posted for, like, ten months. Mostly because it was more of a rant than a review. But I was talking about this book recently with someone in RL and remembered I'd jotted down actual thoughts about it somewhere ( Read more... )

oyceter linked to a post which touches on some issues with the Memoirs of a Geisha movie.

I tried to write something intelligent in order to explain my ambivalence about this movie, especially considering some really excellent recent posts by jazzypom and miriam_heddy about race in fandom. But I can't come up with anything logical. This is what goes through my head when I ( Read more... )

Ah, Harry Potter. I'm not sure why the fact that Daniel Radcliffe wasn't naked for the prefects' bath scene was such a news item this week, but I did think it was amusing, and I figure I can do my part by spreading the news to the rest of the universe. So, hey! Daniel Radcliffe WAS NOT naked for his bath scene!

There are so many pictures being ( Read more... )

( HBP spoilers re: shipping )

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H is reading Little Women. He started it months ago and found the beginning hard going ("Why are they all so damn cheesy?"), but over the last few weeks he's really picked up the pace. Occasionally I ask for updates about what's going on.

( reports from the clashing of worlds )

So in a recent post I was casting about for a new book to read. I'd just settled on Hearts in Atlantis (Stephen King) for my daily commute, when a thread in snacky's LJ on Flowers in the Attic inspired me to look for something else.

loligo, you may recall this. A few months ago I asked melymbrosia about a scary-ass historical romance I stumbled into as a teenager. ( Read more... )

I've been reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I have maybe fifty more pages to go. I've seen the movie version, so the thing that's keeping me hanging right now is seeing whether the endings differ ( Read more... )