I might read Sense & Sensibility if someone else joins me. But I usually take more than one month to read an Austen book - it's a bit depressing, really. I love them! But IDK, the language is just too hard to get through, apparently. Otherwise, we could do a chat-watching of any of the (shorter) adaptations - Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Mansfield Park (199..9?) are some of my favorites. It could be fun!
Right now I'm half-heartedly reading the first volume of LMM's journals. It's interesting, but not much more than that - right now she's 14 and talking about which boys walk her home, and I guess I just want more about her career. Maybe I should jump ahead.
I was actually thinking about doing Sense & Sensibility. It's probably the book I've reread least, and I've already read Persuasion and P&P this year. But a chat with one of the movies could be fun!
I CAN'T MAKE EDUCATED GUESSES ON ANYTHING, BECAUSE I HAVE READ NO AUSTEN.
BUT I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR!!!!!!!
...I'm not drunk, I swear. It is ten in the morning. I just went on a journey to deliver a check. So I have a roof next year.
No one was there so I had to slide it under the door. Now I have to go back because I forgot they wanted to give me forms and they are going to judge me for my Care Bear checks.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER, BECAUSE IT'S SUNNY AND I HAVE ENDORPHINS.
LOL If it's any consolation I've read of all Austen, in multiple times, and yet my choices are pretty much random selections too! I'm horrible at remembering character names unless they are the two main ones!
I'm thinking of re-reading Sense & Sensibility since it's the Austen book I tend to avoid. I saw the movie before reading the book and I really didn't like the Emma Thompson adaption, which is considered blasphemous in some circles but whatever. Also thinking of re-watching the BBC adaptions that came out a few years ago since they were really well made and do the books justice.
I'm currently reading The Calculus Diaries by Jennifer Ouellet (I know, nerd alert). It's about the application of math in daily life explored through the author attempting to get over her fear of calculus. It's super informative, interesting all while being hilarious. She also wrote a book called The Physics of Buffyverse which I want to eventually check out.
On a last note IT'S FINALLY WARM AND SUNNY HERE! YAY FOR SPRING!
The 2008 S&S is great, it's so beautiful. I like the Thompson adaptation too but the actors are a tad too old so it's wonky. Plus, who doesn't want Emma Thompson to end up with Alan Rickman? It breaks the whole story ;)
It really was. Watching it was the first time, aside from reading the book, that I actually felt for the characters and cheered for the "right" couple! Plus, who doesn't want Emma Thompson to end up with Alan Rickman? It breaks the whole story ;) EXACTLY! Her and Hugh Grant just didn't for me at all.
I really love the 2008 S&S. Possibly more than the 95 one? I can't really decide. The Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman thing really does bother me about the 95 version. I can't NOT want them together. It's practically programmed in me.
I'm ALMOST done with Long May She Reign. I've been a little bit distracted with Farscape (and all of the DYING), but I swear I am going to finish it this afternoon at some point. MEG ♥
Working on Anne of Avonlea, The Blind Assassin, and The Mischief of the Mistletoe at the same time, but really focusing on Long May She Reign for now.
I will think on the book recs. I never know where to start with them... ;) You should definitely fill out the rest of your Austen collection while you're at it, if you haven't already.
YAY! (For Long May She Reign, not the Farscape dying because YEAH. That season is brutal.)
How are you liking The Blind Assasin? I'm hoping to start The Handmaid's Tale pretty soon, but am not doing so well with book planning, lol. I keep "accidentally" reading other things instead of whatever I said I would!
I have the complete collection, so I'm good there!
THE FARSCAPE DYING IS JUST ... IT WAS THREE AM AND I WAS CRYING BUT NOT AS MUCH AS AERYN WAS.
Long May She Reign has been fantastic so far. Just like Long Live the Queen.
I really haven't made it too far into The Blind Assassin yet. I started it on my way back from vacation, but then that week I was doing Anna and the French Kiss and Anne of Green Gables AND I got distracted with a couple of the Lauren Willig books, so Blind Assassin has gone on the back burner for a little while.
I love The Handmaid's Tale, though. One of my favorites :D
I just finished Rilla of Ingleside today. I'd been reading it on the bus, but I made a conscious decision to shift it back to a home book, because I knew that I'd sob at one point, and I didn't feel like doing that in front of strangers.
Otherwise, I've read Where She Went, the sequel to If I Stay, and I think I loved it almost as much as the first book. It felt like the right sequel, and that wasn't a book it was easy to imagine a sequel to. I've also read Sloppy Firsts (pretty delightful), Sweet Valley Confidential (so terrible it cycles around to awesome), and I finally finished Kitchen Confidential. Now I just have to figure out which of my library books I'm going to read next.
It's definitely a book that could have lived without a sequel, but I loved Adam so much in the first one that I was at least tentatively into the idea of a book about him, from his POV. But I really did love it a lot, I read it about as fast as it was humanly possible to read and now I just need to go back and go through it slower, lol.
Oooooh, I loved Sloppy Firsts. And Second Comings, but none of the books after that. Those two books read back to back are some of the most hilarious, insightful, on-the-mark YA books ever.
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I might read Sense & Sensibility if someone else joins me. But I usually take more than one month to read an Austen book - it's a bit depressing, really. I love them! But IDK, the language is just too hard to get through, apparently. Otherwise, we could do a chat-watching of any of the (shorter) adaptations - Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Mansfield Park (199..9?) are some of my favorites. It could be fun!
Right now I'm half-heartedly reading the first volume of LMM's journals. It's interesting, but not much more than that - right now she's 14 and talking about which boys walk her home, and I guess I just want more about her career. Maybe I should jump ahead.
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SO ARE BOYS WALKING YOU HOME.
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pause while i try to remember if any boys have ever walked me home.
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BUT I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR!!!!!!!
...I'm not drunk, I swear. It is ten in the morning. I just went on a journey to deliver a check. So I have a roof next year.
No one was there so I had to slide it under the door. Now I have to go back because I forgot they wanted to give me forms and they are going to judge me for my Care Bear checks.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER, BECAUSE IT'S SUNNY AND I HAVE ENDORPHINS.
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I'm currently reading The Calculus Diaries by Jennifer Ouellet (I know, nerd alert). It's about the application of math in daily life explored through the author attempting to get over her fear of calculus. It's super informative, interesting all while being hilarious. She also wrote a book called The Physics of Buffyverse which I want to eventually check out.
On a last note IT'S FINALLY WARM AND SUNNY HERE! YAY FOR SPRING!
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It really was. Watching it was the first time, aside from reading the book, that I actually felt for the characters and cheered for the "right" couple! Plus, who doesn't want Emma Thompson to end up with Alan Rickman? It breaks the whole story ;) EXACTLY! Her and Hugh Grant just didn't for me at all.
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And buying lots of books at my closing Borders. Now's the time to give me books recs. ;) (. . . that will sit on my shelf forever, but SOMEDAY.)
Filled out my Austen bracket and feel like I probably got some obvious ones wrong when it comes to the books I haven't read yet!
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Working on Anne of Avonlea, The Blind Assassin, and The Mischief of the Mistletoe at the same time, but really focusing on Long May She Reign for now.
I will think on the book recs. I never know where to start with them... ;) You should definitely fill out the rest of your Austen collection while you're at it, if you haven't already.
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How are you liking The Blind Assasin? I'm hoping to start The Handmaid's Tale pretty soon, but am not doing so well with book planning, lol. I keep "accidentally" reading other things instead of whatever I said I would!
I have the complete collection, so I'm good there!
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Long May She Reign has been fantastic so far. Just like Long Live the Queen.
I really haven't made it too far into The Blind Assassin yet. I started it on my way back from vacation, but then that week I was doing Anna and the French Kiss and Anne of Green Gables AND I got distracted with a couple of the Lauren Willig books, so Blind Assassin has gone on the back burner for a little while.
I love The Handmaid's Tale, though. One of my favorites :D
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Otherwise, I've read Where She Went, the sequel to If I Stay, and I think I loved it almost as much as the first book. It felt like the right sequel, and that wasn't a book it was easy to imagine a sequel to. I've also read Sloppy Firsts (pretty delightful), Sweet Valley Confidential (so terrible it cycles around to awesome), and I finally finished Kitchen Confidential. Now I just have to figure out which of my library books I'm going to read next.
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