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Just finished rewatching the BBC adaptation of North & South. *sigh* What a great adaptation it is! I think most of it was done really well, but I do feel there was no need to include that scene of Mr. Thornton beating up the smoking worker in the first episode.
I was amused when I disovered that all my favourites scenes are exactly the same that Richard Armitage lists in his interview. My favourite scene in the entire adaptation is the powerful "Look back! Look back at me!" scene when Mr. Thonton is standing at the door of his mill and thinking that Margaret is leaving Milton forever.
My recent reading has included some Gaskell, as well, since I finished the short story collection A Dark Night's Work and Other Stories (67.). However, I didn't think any of the stories rivalled her novels, but it was interesting to see her writing in a variety of styles from the pastoral to the gothic.
After that I read (68.) Temeraire (His Majesty's Dragon in the US), naominovik's delightful Napoleonic naval adventure with dragons. In it Captain William Laurence and his crew capture a French vessel carrying a very important treasure: a dragon egg. The egg is about to hatch and someone in the crew must harness the dragonet, because it cannot be allowed to rogue.
The dragon, Temeraire, chooses Laurence as his Captain, and from then on, Laurence's life is completely changed. He must adapt to a different branch of the armed forces, slowly build his bond - soon to be friendship - with Temeraire, and, of course, play his part in defending Britain form Napoleon's forces.
Great book! Highly recommended!
I'm currently in the middle of Devyani Saltzman's Shooting Water, but in between I've read a couple of comics: (69.-70.) Gosho Aoyama: Salapoliisi Conan 1 & 2 (manga, light detective stuff) and a reread of (71.) The Books of Faerie inspired by my entering the book into my LibraryThing catalogue.
I was amused when I disovered that all my favourites scenes are exactly the same that Richard Armitage lists in his interview. My favourite scene in the entire adaptation is the powerful "Look back! Look back at me!" scene when Mr. Thonton is standing at the door of his mill and thinking that Margaret is leaving Milton forever.
My recent reading has included some Gaskell, as well, since I finished the short story collection A Dark Night's Work and Other Stories (67.). However, I didn't think any of the stories rivalled her novels, but it was interesting to see her writing in a variety of styles from the pastoral to the gothic.
After that I read (68.) Temeraire (His Majesty's Dragon in the US), naominovik's delightful Napoleonic naval adventure with dragons. In it Captain William Laurence and his crew capture a French vessel carrying a very important treasure: a dragon egg. The egg is about to hatch and someone in the crew must harness the dragonet, because it cannot be allowed to rogue.
The dragon, Temeraire, chooses Laurence as his Captain, and from then on, Laurence's life is completely changed. He must adapt to a different branch of the armed forces, slowly build his bond - soon to be friendship - with Temeraire, and, of course, play his part in defending Britain form Napoleon's forces.
Great book! Highly recommended!
I'm currently in the middle of Devyani Saltzman's Shooting Water, but in between I've read a couple of comics: (69.-70.) Gosho Aoyama: Salapoliisi Conan 1 & 2 (manga, light detective stuff) and a reread of (71.) The Books of Faerie inspired by my entering the book into my LibraryThing catalogue.