So I bought and read These Old Shades today ( Read more... )

On a more cheerful note, I just completed my Austen collection by ordering my very own copy of Persuasion --- the 1995 Amanda/Ciaran version, not the ughy recent version --- which, ha, I just realised features Corin Redgrave, Natasha Richardson's uncle. Heh. Mind you, it's less amusing and more absurd that to get a Region 4 version wot I can cap to ( Read more... )

Ooh, I just realised I'm going to miss the second half of Lost In Austen cos I'll be at the gig. D'oh! Currently trying to will YouTube to load faster. But I'm kinda suspecting that I'm missing bits and pieces so no doubt a purchase will have to be made.

And ah, aren't the ABC clever? Available on Thursday.Oy. The one time I find something worthy ( Read more... )

Sooooo did the Austenites on my flist catch the first part of Lost In Austen on the ABC last night ( Read more... )

God, I hate Unwired. It turns uploading the song(s) of the day into a dread nightmare and has pretty much put me off turning the laptop on. And cuts into my sleep time. Fucking Unwired.

But I succumbed to the totally unsurprising temptation and bought another Heyer today. Arabella cos it turns out I haven't read that one. Between Venetia and ( Read more... )

Wordcount: 90,172 ( Read more... )

So many books, so little time ( Read more... )

Devoured in the last week:

*** Hellboy II: The Golden Army which was every bit as awesome as I'd hoped and made me kick myself for not seeing it on the big screen as intended, and made me fall a little bit in love with Luke Goss Prince Nuada. Like nnnggghhhh! ( brief spoilery squee. )

Weeelll, I'm kinda set for the next two weeks. Cos the Aunt also gave me two hundred dollars for Christmas, ninety per cent of which I spent yesterday on books and the remaining ten per cent on DVDs. *cough*

As of this morning, I finished the second collection of Nurse Matilda stories by Christianna Brand, the first collection of which is wot ( Read more... )

Nicked from christinafairy.

Because we'll go weeks without surveys and then two pop up in the same morning.

(  ... need to get you out of your cave, man ... )