I haven't been able to bring myself to read Ian Mortimer's and Matt Haig's recent books about immortal people, for personal reasons (there was a story I started once that I thought I might finish, and though that's clearly never going to happen, it's still a tender spot), but under other circumstances, I would be utterly into this ( Read more... )

the Masterpiece adaptation of Little Women is apparently filming in Ireland; this seems wrong

The trailer for Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time film came out yesterday (or at least, I saw it for the first time yesterday ( Read more... )

Oh gosh, I like this line: "Schulz knew that shyness has no narrative arc: the shy just have to carry on being shy ( Read more... )

A series of four essays on Little Women, one for each of the March girls ( Read more... )

This piece by Katie Riophe on Maurice Sendak is haunting:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/maurice-sendak-art-of-death/472350/

Even as a tiny child in Brooklyn, Maurice was unusually alert to the ( Read more... )

‘Little Women’ Series Produced By Michael Weatherly In Development At CW
/2015/07/little-women-series-michael-weatherly-cw-1201487185

(LJ keeps blocking the post because the article is from Deadline dot com, so I removed that bit of the URL.)

"Written by Jolly, Little Women is described as a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation of the 1868 novel by ( Read more... )

According to Nicholas Orme in Medieval Children, "faunt" is a medieval word for "infant." Which, it occurs to me, means that Little Lord Fauntleroy is really redundant: it basically boils down to "little lord infant king."

I don't really know what to do with this fact.

I Smell a Gritty Reboot: "Modern Take" on Little Women Coming to ABC
http://www.themarysue.com/little-women-abc/

(link via Bookshelves of Doom.)

My actual problem with this is that I simply can't imagine it. Sherlock, and then Elementary, was an easy fit for imagining how ( Read more... )

(Is the New Yorker's new stance "no one should like reading anything unless it is approved by us"? Didn't they just publish one of these finger-wagging pieces for adults? Did they feel like they weren't scolding enough readers with that last one? Thought they'd cast their net a little wider, did they?)

"What if the strenuous accessibility of ' ( Read more... )