I’d been pretty good at keeping up with my reviews of the Jane Austen-fest on PBS, but a got a little behind with the last few, now that it’s spring, and I’ve had to DVR them rather than watching them all when they aired. Ms. Austen Regrets disappeared into the black hole of the DVR, […]
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The latest installment of the Masterpiece Theatre Jane Austen-athon was Mansfield Park, featuring Billie Piper, late of Doctor Who fame. It was a lovely little production that I very much enjoyed. This production, more than any of the others so far, has made me want to reread the book. There was a certain haste to
Last night was the second night of the Jane Austen-athon on PBS, and the feature was Northanger Abbey. I recently reread Northanger Abbey, for the RIP II reading challenge, and was reminded that it’s one of my less favorite Austen books. Apparently, I’m not the only one to think this, as I’m told this was
They’re doing a run of all Jane Austen’s books on Masterpiece Theatre, starting with Persuasion last night. I know some people aren’t necessarily fond of this book. It’s understandable, as it’s definitely not one of her lighter works, but I actually like it better than Emma and Sense and Sensibility. I’m not sure exactly why
In a follow up to the Book to Movie reading challenge, I finally got around to watching the movie version of Steve Martin’s Shopgirl last night. I enjoyed the movie, but I liked the book better. Mirabelle’s interior life was much clearer in the book, and since this is what made her relationship with a
Read for the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge This book is the companion to the Sahara travel series that Michael Palin filmed in 2001. I’ve seen the last half of the series, so I had a certain visual frame of reference for some of the book that I didn’t have for the rest. (Though there were
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I’m pretty well cruising along on Mom sock #1. (Though can I say, the colors look much less scarily pooly in person than in this picture.) Sadly, I finished Season 4 in the Babylon 5-athon last night, and we don’t own Season 5. I’m at a bit of a loss tonight, trying to figure out
I raked 15 bags of leaves this weekend, 13 of which I had to wrangle on a rather blustery Saturday morning. Fortunately, my backyard is rather sheltered, so I only had to work around the worst of the gusts, but I definitely have some issues with Mother Nature deciding it would be fun to have
I’ve completed my sister’s Christmas socks. I really like the colors (it’s called Crazy Woman, which is very apropos for my sister), and I have a decent amount of the yarn left, so I need to see what kind of little thing I might be able to make with the leftovers. I’ve cast on my
This book is a novelization of the movie starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley that came out four or so years ago. It’s a movie that didn’t received overly great reviews, though from what I’ve seen in my DVD extra viewing, and from the differences in the theatrical version and the director’s cut DVD version,
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