...looking for novels I might want to read, and found this:

When Three British Boys Traveled to Medieval England (Or Did They?)http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/07/when-three-british-boys-traveled-to-medieval- ( Read more... )

Watching films I've had out from Netflix since May ( Read more... )

Skeletons Show Rickets Struck the Medici Familyhttp://www.nature.com/news/skeletons-show-rickets-struck-the-medici-family-1.13156Read more... )

I'd totally forgotten that Russell Tovey was in My Family and Other Animals until it popped up in my Netflix recommendations ("British dramas based on real life," a category that actually makes sense based on my interest in An Education. Well done for once, Netflix). How did I manage that?

...Now I want to see it again.

Netflix thinks I will enjoy The Killer, described on the site in the following manner ( Read more... )

So I was actually looking for some other book on Shakespeare, but came across Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay by Thomas Alfred Spalding (London: Chatto and Windus, 1880) along the way. This book was dedicated to Robert Browning, so you can file that in your random trivia bank, I guess. At any rate, instead of a table of contents, the book has an " ( Read more... )

My main resolution for 2010 was to read at least two books a month for pleasure. I think I've failed every month so far except January. How sad is that ( Read more... )

If, for some reason, you find yourself with the urge to start a research project on sixteenth-century rings, don't be an idiot like me and put "english rings" into the title keyword search. Because you will get a bunch of books on fantasy and Lord of the Rings. Of course. (The sad/hilarious part was that the second I typed it, I knew how dumb that ( Read more... )

Based on my interest in Ever After, Netflix recommends The Last King of Scotland and The Godfather. Apparently all of these movies fall under the category of "Critically Acclaimed Suspenseful Movies."

I'm not sure why I find it so amusing that there is a subject heading in the library catalog for "Foliate Head (Sculpture)," but I do. It is useful, though, if one is looking for a book on the Green Man.

...I think it's because it kind of sounds like an insult. "You big foliate head!"