I'm listening to Emma on audiobook because I borrowed it from the library for that long trip and I've never read it and, anyway.

I've also never seen any of the film adaptations. There are a few! Is there one more recommended than the others?

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

For today: The Mighty Book of Boosh!


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I hate that the SPN newsletter calls wallpapers and other random graphic-y things "fanart". Not because I'm being snobby about what is and isn't art, but because it pisses me off when I click on it expecting an illustration and get a wallpaper ( Read more... )

Someone at work has suggested that I read Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. So I looked it up, read the little preview on Amazon. Perhaps because I'm not *really* a fantasy reader, perhaps because it was written in the seventies, but some of the writing was really kind of hilarious. Here are some of the best ( Read more... )

( Almost entirely about writers, actually. )

I finished North & South and it was so lovely. So lovely.

I've heard some insanely amazing, but also pretty scary news that Viggo may play the father in an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Amazing because Viggo could completely own the role. Scary because I loved that book so much. It affected me deeply. I don't want Hollywood mucking it ( Read more... )

Random disjointed comments for my own reference and delight.

SPOILERS

( Privateering... )

House last night was good. And they said afterward that they were going to air back-to-back eps all summer long! So now I don't have to watch the downloaded eps... which are rather poor quality and (even worse) the soundtrack gets off. oO Yay! Reruns!

Finished The Letter of Marque last night, which ended remarkably well! Very happily. He could ( Read more... )

Stephen has taken his skiff to the shore of an island. Some time later Jack swims from the ship to shore to inform Stephen that his skiff is now stranded.'The sea has receded!' cried Stephen. 'I am amazed ( Read more... )

Stephen, already late to meet Martin, the parson, and soon to be hours late to meet Jack (and missing the tide!), comes upon a man while walking and the gentleman claims to know where there are bustards. Stephen is amazed, never seen one in England. 'Your bustards, sir?' Stepen cried, his pale eyes searching the man's face...
He is told it should ( Read more... )