Wombats!

[chaletian]

What ho, darlings! I feel I should do a proper post, and keep you all enthralled with charming little tales of my recent exploits, but I fear I should find it tedious, so bullet points ahoy

Comments

[davidbrider]

Ooh, I love A Little Princess but hadn't heard about the sequel. I'll have to treatt myself to a copy.

[donna_k]

Hah! I was beginning to think I was the only person who hadn't liked the National's Hamlet. And All's Well was truly awful. I approve of your theatrical opinions. :D

[chaletian]

I just thought it fundamentally didn't make sense. (A) why wasn't Hamlet, who was mid-30s and presumably not weird until his father died and was supplanted by his uncle, king of denmark? Is this explained in the text and I missed it? Is he supposed to be too young? Is there something weird about their constitution? It felt like it didn't make sense in the context of the production because he was all old and (generally) compos mentis. (B) As a continuation of that, Hamlet's political impotence was utterly unfeasible, and its manifestation in immature pranks and emotional outbursts, was completely unsympathetic and made him look like a twat, so by the time he died I didn't give a shit; in fact, it felt like he rather deserved it. I had no emotional connection to any of them, not even Ophelia or Gertrude. I quite liked the West Wing-esque staging, but generally it was pants. And let's not even go onto AWTEW!!

[chaletian]

Ooh, I would particularly like to borrow Murder at the Flood if poss, please, and also Pink Sugar. And, tbh, maybe the Streatfeilds at a later date!! I think I just bought Murder While You Work for 1p on the Amazon Marketplace, but that seems supremely unfeasibly, so it's probably someone lying about their stock.

[weird_bird]

If it does turn up may I borrow when you are done!

My carly Simon CD's turned up :)

[chaletian]

Of course, darling.

Mine has too! I haven't listened to it yet, though.

[cavgirl]

Eva Ibbotson has died? Oh, I didn't know that. If it's 'The Dragonfly Pool' you'll like it, I think. A school story with her own particular whimsical twist, but not quite as strange as the CS-but-not one (A Song of Summer? A Song for Summer? Memory fail...).

[chaletian]

Yes, a few months ago. Very sad.

And no, not Dragonfly Pool - that's a few years old now, I think - it's one of the proper kiddy ones, but I like those too!

[cavgirl]

Oooh, I must watch out for it. I might even get into a re-read... I have a sneaking feeling I'm about to move back into a GO mood, which is bad timing, dammit. I have fic commitments where I am, but I'm seized by a sudden deep desire to visit the CBB...

[chaletian]

I'm sure a lie down will cure that!!

[ungratefulwench]

I had no idea someone has released a sequel to A Little Princess. I must investigate - and, you know, reread A Little Princess.

I don't think I've ever been disappointed by a Celia Rees book. She's not particularly well known but she's keeps banging out thoroughly readable stuff.

[chaletian]

I need to read some of her others. I did really enjoy both the idea and execution of The Fool's Girl. Have you read it?

I re-read A Little Princess first too! The two books together presented me with an entirely satisfactory day's reading. I can lend you the sequel, if you like.