The first reviews of the upcoming filmed Histories extravaganza I posted about before are in, and the Guardian one is glowing. Excccccccellent. To celebrate the sheer collection of actorly and Bardic awesomenose, here's another thing I found: Patrick Stewart reciting Sonnet No. 116. Just in case the vimeo embedding doesn't work, have a direct ( Read more... )

Travelling with various air planes and trains through Italy left me with time to read Lindsey Davis' newest novel, Master and God. Now Lindsey Davis is most famous for her series of Roman mysteries centered around one Marcus Didius Falco, but she also writes non-Falco historical novels, of which this, as far as I know, is the third. The first one ( Read more... )