…you are excited by the fact that the opening voiceover in this trailer (which is set in 17th-century New England) forms its first question - "What came we to this wilderness to find?" - without the use of auxiliary 'do'.

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Code Name Verity is finally out in paperback! I've been waiting on the paperback release so that I could buy myself a copy. I may have startled the friend I was with at the bookstore, with my...intense reaction to seeing it on display (there was squealing, and hugging of the book), but this person is my friend, after all, so she knows the drill. ( Read more... )

It's probably at least a *little* weird that I just got an eyelash in my eye, yelped "ow!" and then giggled and said, "eyes, that are the frailest and softest things, that shut their coward gates on atomies..."

But it distracted me until I could get the eyelash out, so I guess there's that.

Hazards of reading while being me: girl in novel with red hair dresses up in a policewoman's outfit; I start giggling and going, "Like Amy Pond!" Narrator of book (she's American, in an English boarding school) goes, "so...you're a hot police officer/stripper?" (I wonder, "why would you assume she was a stripper, as opposed to "sexy police officer ( Read more... )

So, guess who went to the bookstore, discovered that Claudia L. Johnson's Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures had finally come out, grabbed it off the shelf, and actually did a little shimmy dance in the aisle ( Read more... )

You will not, I think, be especially surprised to know that while I was walking to school this morning, wearing new shoes and fretting about whether they would give me blisters, my sub-brain piped up with some ridiculousness about plucking the rose from the forehead of an innocent love and setting a blister there.

*facepalm*

Not even kidding; this is so my life:

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So last week, when I was watching S2 Slings & Arrows? I wasn't even really listening that hard, when Henry Breedlove starts doing his totemic recitation of ( Read more... )

Oops. I just had lunch with a friend, and Doctor Who came up (I was telling him that I finally got my mom to watch Hamlet). He mentioned that he'd only seen the most recent Christmas special (that is, not the rest of season 5, but he'd seen some Tennant episodes too), but that he fell in love with it, and--oh dear. Flail city, you guys ( Read more... )

Someone asked me today if I liked the new Doctor, because she's seen some episodes with Ten but not with Eleven. I may have told her that he was "all sunshine and rainbows ( Read more... )

Because I am a degenerate, I had cause to watch a DVD from Netflix on Friday instead of working on my paper. (It was the first disc of S2 of Being Human, which I still haven't seen. I was only going to watch a little bit, while I ate dinner! Ha.) At the beginning of the DVD, as there are, there were previews. And this voice started saying that the ( Read more... )