Over the long weekend with the Boyfriend's family, his younger sister and I deliberated over fully casting the fantasy movie version of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It took us several hours, but we're (mostly) satisfied with the results. ( presenting the fantasy cast of Strange&Norrell, with explanations )

I HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY A BOLT OF BRILLIANT.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. In the theoretical imaginary movie version in my head. Ian Holm as Mr. Norrell.

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN. I HAVE DECLARED IT SO. SOMEONE GET ON THIS. NOW.

Hi. I just listened to Neil Gaiman talk for an hour. I sat in the second row. He was about ten feet away from me for an hour. And newredshoes asked him a question about fannishness and got him to sign a card. And I WAS IN A ROOM WITH NEIL GAIMAN (and about fifty other people) FOR AN HOUR HI.

So so so I received the book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell for Christmas and started reading it over winter break but didn't finish it and brought it back to college with me and then had no time for reading so never read more than a couple of pages at a stretch and then this past week I've had time again and tonight I was only about 100 pages away ( Read more... )

Wandering the Village after dinner tonight, I passed an old bookstore that was having a used book sale outside. I perused.

Then I bought myself A Dictionary of Angels (including the fallen angels)It's a dictionary of the angels. Like, ALL of them. Almost 400 pages' worth of angels. Some have long passages of description (Gabriel gets practically ( Read more... )

Girl With a Pearl Earring, a really lovely book by Tracy Chevalier, is being made into a movie, due to be released this December.

Starring Colin Firth.

...

::melts into puddle of squee::

...you may now return to your regularly scheduled fandom.

I am exactly 31 pages into Good Omens, and it's already shaping up to be the Best Book Ever. Not only that, but it's a Dom/Billy shipper:
It meant that Crowley had been allowed to develop Manchester, while Aziraphale had a free hand in the whole of Shropshire. Crowley took Glasgow, Aziraphale had Edinburgh...
See? Crowley created both Manchester and ( Read more... )

Barry White died. This is very sad. I foresee that millions of people will listen to his music this weekend in memoriam, and, subsequently, a disproportionate amount of babies will be born about nine months from now.

In other news, have gone out and bought myself my summer reading:
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
American Gods, Neil ( Read more... )

Ehm, yes. GIP. Because, really, he was SO talking about fanfic. Or something. Right. (Deasey is so obviously the sort of person I will grow up to be. I weep.)

I shall stop raving about this book now, I promise.

I've been putting off reading the last few chapters of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Much as I love this book and want to know what HAPPENS, I always feel vaguely depressed after finishing a truly good book. Like, "well, NOW what am I supposed to do with myself ( Read more... )