As this week presented me with the sad news of novelist C.J. Sansom's death, watching the filmed version of the first of his Shardlake novels was a mixed affair in more ways than one. Overall: I didn't love the four parter (currently available in my part of the world on Disney +) the way I hoped I would, but neither did I dislike it, and what ( Read more... )

I just found out Disney will do an adaption of the Shardlake mysteries by C.J. Sansom, aka my favourite novels set in the Tudor era bar none. The current idea is a season per novel, and they've started on filming the first season based on Dissolution . There's one immediately obvious big change for readers, i.e. Jack Barack will already be in this ( Read more... )

On the 25th, Yuletide nominations start, so I'm pondering which I'll nominate this year. The Americans again, and I'm already coordinating that over at the community. Black Sails, of course, and here alas there is no community (that I know of, and I continue to avoid tumblr if I can). Since it would be lovely to have more than four characters to ( Read more... )