Hmm… A recent Atlantic piece on the Emma Thompson and Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility, by literary critic Devoney Looser:

Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen's Accidental Feministshttp://www.theatlantic.com/ ( Read more... )

The website has been updated: Joseph Fiennes reading from Sense and Sensibilityhttp://www.cartenoire.co.uk/cartenoire/page/readers/joseph-fiennes/joseph-fiennes-reads-sense-%26-sensibility-by- ( Read more... )

Once again, Mondays are for meta. All of S2, but mostly the second half.

( Fraser's uniform (again) )

I finished reading In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker last night, and I'm jealous. Conceptually I thought it was really interesting and clever, and it had little bits about time travel and language, which I'm a sucker for, but what I am *really* jealous of is the Tudor dialogue. I have long wanted to write historical fiction, but I can never get ( Read more... )

...In less shouty S&S07 news:

( What he might say on the subject a twelvemonth after, must be referred to the imagination of husbands and wives )

Dear Andrew Davies ( Read more... )

Did anyone watch the first part of the new Andrew Davies S&S last night? Did anyone else feel like they'd basically just replaced Margaret's atlas with a library, and the fencing scene with horseback riding? And that they'd hired someone whose hair was almost as floppy as Hugh Grant's?

( I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than a watch-tower )

Ugh. Am sick. One of my friends had some kind of illness at New Year's, and I thought I'd miraculously escaped without catching it, till I woke up yesterday morning with a sore throat, sore muscles, etc ( Read more... )