Books read in 2014: 112 (less than in 2013, 2012 and 2011!)

First book of the year: The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

Last book of the year: Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid

Favourite books (not counting re-reads): Carry Me Home by Terri Wiltshire; In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl

Most spectacular waste of money: Uhura's Song by Janet ( Read more... )

Books read in 2013: 140

First book of the year: Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Last book of the year: The Secret Letters of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy by Wendy Leigh

Favourite books (not counting re-reads): Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (fiction) and Mrs Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill (non-fiction)

Most spectacular waste of money: A toss up ( Read more... )

Star Trek: Déjà Vu
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(Quick, quick, let me post this while LJ is actually live!)

Books read in 2012: 128

First book of the year: Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy) by Mervyn Peake

Last book of the year: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (re50-read)

Favourite book (not counting re-reads): The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes (fiction) and Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of ( Read more... )

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

1969-1971

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Emma (1972)
Doran Godwin, John Carson

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Re-reading Emma by Jane Austen recently, and then watching the woefully miscast Mark Strong transform the hero Mr Knightley into a sort of proto-Mr Rochester, has made me
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Emma (1996)

Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong

In the interests of general unfairness, I thought I should criticise to an equal degree all of the Emma film and television adaptations which are not my favourite 2009 version. So here goes ‘the other’ 1996 Emma, with Kate Beckinsale and Mark Strong!

Actually, despite being written by Andrew Davies for ITV, ( Read more... )

Emma (1996)

Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam

Warning: high levels of vitriol and hypocrisy abound!
Caps from grandecaps.tumblr.com


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