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[prysmicdork]

Having finished watching it last night, I can now say that the new BBC Emma is awesomesause, officially my favorite version (I think it has something to do with it being a 4 hour series, so it can really take its time with things) and Romola Garai is so lovely and she just hit all the right notes (and for those of us who are also superficial

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[silly_cleo]

Hiii! I will watch it, just, I don't have time! @_@ Nano has eaten my life even though I only have like 4500/5000ish words! (I went to 4 write-ins this week. x_X)

The book sounds really interesting! :D (I will email you back cuz I am glad you are alive again! :D)

[prysmicdork]

Still that is totally a yay word count! As I have said before. ;)

I would be super interested to know what you thought of it because half, a third? of the people he references are classical figures/philosophers/historians and I don't know enough about them to have an opinion on his reading of them (although he ends with Tiberius! And makes some really interesting points about him, while still acknowledging the crazy. ;))

[silly_cleo]

I feel :DDDD pretty much covers this bit. ;D

Hee, ok! You know classics will always inspire me to poke a book. I will make a note of it and maybe THIS weekend I will make it to the library! ;D And see if this is there.

[prysmicdork]

Seriously, I think that is so the magic of nano, to just show that the words will come if you make them!

It's a v. short book too, although I did find it a bit slow going just because the ideas are so dense. It isn't a gloriously optimistic read though, so warnings for that, but SO interesting. Also his intro basically lays out a ton of the problems that have happened in Iraq, without talking about that at all, since the book was written in '02 and the invasion was in '03 and he's speaking in generalities about foreign policy.