Oscar Wilde Journals

[mythosidhe]

Picked up the one on the top at Borders today (Amazon carries them, too). They had a Jane Austen one, but the quote on the cover was from Mansfield Park, ugh. Least favorite Austen!

Lots to report on--September Issue was fab--but after spending most of the afternoon walking around downtown I am starving, and there is a pepperoni stromboli from

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[mirandapadgett]

Absolutely nobody around here is showing The September Issue. I could weep.

Just out of curiosity, what is your favorite Austen? (Mine is Northanger Abbey.)

[mythosidhe]

We are fortunate to have a great local chain of art house style theaters that pretty much exclusively shows limited release pictures. I'm surprised that The September Issue isn't getting more of a major distribution push though; if nothing else it seems to be generating alot of interest if only for the Devil Wears Prada tie-in. Maybe if it does well enough to go from limited to national release it will move into your area?

I have to say that Pride & Prejudice and Northanger are tied for my favorite Austen novels (P&P was the first, and for a long time the only Austen I ever read, so it's got a special place), Emma and Sense & Sensibility come out somewhere in the middle, and Mansfield is absolutely at the bottom of the barrel, below even the silly things Jane wrote in her teens like 'The History of England' and 'Love & Freindship'. No love for that book whatsoever.

[mythosidhe]

No love for that book whatsoever.

Mansfield, that is. That last sentence got away from me...

[glenvorian]

Pretty covers! I like them a lot.

I've never had a stromboli - I love calzones, so I might have to try a stromboli sometime.

[mythosidhe]

Stromboli & calzone are basically the same thing, and to most people the names are interchangeable. If you want to get technical about it, a stromboli is the the classic 'inside out pizza': crust with tomato sauce & mozzarella cheese (and whatever toppings) inside; while a traditional calzone has mozzarella & ricotta cheese with no sauce, or sauce on the side, though most places if you ask they will put the sauce inside. Really the only difference between the two is the ricotta. Anyway, they both taste good!

[glenvorian]

Oh! Thanks for the lesson, hon. :)

[newmoonstar]

I've never seen those journals before, they're so cute! I'll have to keep an eye out for them next time I'm at Borders. They'd be the perfect complement to that Oscar Wilde finger puppet/refridgerator magnet from The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild that I've had my eye on!

[mythosidhe]

Check in the literature section, rather than in the journal corner; at my Borders they were cutting these author-themed journals in next to the books by each author. Aside from the Austen and Wilde ones I also saw some on the Poe shelf as well...

[whitewildrose77]

They are certainly lovely. What a coincidence I just finished the book two days ago.

Did you hear that they are actually making a movie on The Picture of Dorian Gray?