I Aten't Dead
It's...been some time.
Hum.
Still alive! ...barely.
(we actually do own that gas mask)
BOOKS! They're great!
Read in the last week:
Little Women. Louisa May Alcott.
Why I haven't read this before, I don't know. GOD, IT'S SO WARM FUZZIES-INDUCING.
I can't get through Beth's death with dry eyes in either the book or the movie. Which I saw again today . (Gah, Gabriel Byrne with a German accent is LOVE.)
The Island of Dr. Moreau. H.G. Wells.
Bigod, for late-Victorian sc-fi that was an astonishingly creepy book. Mainly because of the vivisection aspect. Basically, Heart of Darkness meets the English "island adventure" story. I really need to reread H. G. Wells, if he's always this good.
Hellboy, vol. 1 and 2
Ho-kay, I'm hooked. Took me long enough, right? Not that I didn't enjoy the movies, particularly the second installment, but the comics are...oh so much better. Oh, God, that artwork rocks my socks. And my inner folklore nut is still squeeing wildly, especially over the short story "The Corpse".
Currently reading:
Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens.
It's bloody interminable, but so packed with interesting characters and amusing vignettes that I just don't care. I'm just going to savour it.
The Vicar of Wakefield. Oliver Goldsmith.
Probably the first 18th century book I've ever attempted- I'm reading this one mainly because EVERYONE in Victorian fiction alludes to it. I'm thinking that this is the prototype for the dysfunctional Bennett family in Pride and Prejudice.
To read, in the near future, if possible:
Brief Lives. John Aubrey. Just to see what the 17th century was all about.
Rasselas. Samuel Johnson. Again, one of those 18th century touchstones that seemingly every Victorian novel alludes to.
Pilgrim's Progress. Paul Bunyan.
The Pickwick Club. Charles Dickens. Since it's the one that started it all, really.
In other news, I hear that the new Sherlock Holmes movie stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson respectively. Holmes looks scruffy.
DO. NOT. WANT.
JEREMY BRETT, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE?
"The game is afoot, Watson!"
Hum.
Still alive! ...barely.
(we actually do own that gas mask)
BOOKS! They're great!
Read in the last week:
Little Women. Louisa May Alcott.
Why I haven't read this before, I don't know. GOD, IT'S SO WARM FUZZIES-INDUCING.
I can't get through Beth's death with dry eyes in either the book or the movie. Which I saw again today . (Gah, Gabriel Byrne with a German accent is LOVE.)
The Island of Dr. Moreau. H.G. Wells.
Bigod, for late-Victorian sc-fi that was an astonishingly creepy book. Mainly because of the vivisection aspect. Basically, Heart of Darkness meets the English "island adventure" story. I really need to reread H. G. Wells, if he's always this good.
Hellboy, vol. 1 and 2
Ho-kay, I'm hooked. Took me long enough, right? Not that I didn't enjoy the movies, particularly the second installment, but the comics are...oh so much better. Oh, God, that artwork rocks my socks. And my inner folklore nut is still squeeing wildly, especially over the short story "The Corpse".
Currently reading:
Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens.
It's bloody interminable, but so packed with interesting characters and amusing vignettes that I just don't care. I'm just going to savour it.
The Vicar of Wakefield. Oliver Goldsmith.
Probably the first 18th century book I've ever attempted- I'm reading this one mainly because EVERYONE in Victorian fiction alludes to it. I'm thinking that this is the prototype for the dysfunctional Bennett family in Pride and Prejudice.
To read, in the near future, if possible:
Brief Lives. John Aubrey. Just to see what the 17th century was all about.
Rasselas. Samuel Johnson. Again, one of those 18th century touchstones that seemingly every Victorian novel alludes to.
Pilgrim's Progress. Paul Bunyan.
The Pickwick Club. Charles Dickens. Since it's the one that started it all, really.
In other news, I hear that the new Sherlock Holmes movie stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson respectively. Holmes looks scruffy.
DO. NOT. WANT.
JEREMY BRETT, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE?
"The game is afoot, Watson!"