Neapolitan Quartet - Elena Ferrante:

L'Amica Crudele Lénu and Lila in a time loop. It would never have occured to me to use the Groundhog Day principle on the "My Brilliant Friend" verse, and yet it feels perfect for how Elena uses her memories and writing even in canon in order to capture the vanished Lila.

Sarah Jane Adventures:

Wanted: ( Read more... )

Allow me to geek out for a moment: Byron's copy of 'Frankenstein' with a handwritten dedication by Mary Shelley goes on sale at an auction! Haunted summer! One of the more creative laudanum-drenched get togethers of English writers while touring Switzerland! (Also a bad Highlander episode, but forget that one.) (The Ken Russell movie Gothic, ( Read more... )

I had the great luck of reading Wuthering Heights without any expectations whatsoever. What I mean by that is: being German, it wasn't a part of our literary canon we had to read, so I didn't encounter it in school (though I was still a teenager when reading it - I simply came across it in the library, started and couldn't put it down), I had ( Read more... )

Yuuuuuuuuletide! And what an abundance of treasure it brings.

The story I got was my Wuthering Heights prompt (an examination of the relationship between Heathcliff and Hareton): Fathers and Sons. It's a Heathcliff pov, and the author pulls it off well, which I've always imagined to be extremely tricky ( Read more... )

Yuletide assignment: hmmm. One of my oldest fandoms, so I'm comfortable there. Two relationships I'm neutral about (i.e. I don't love them but neither do I have anything against them), though luckily I love all three characters in question. It'll mean writing something I haven't before, stretching my muscles, as it were, which it all of the good. ( Read more... )