Okay, so maybe I'm a dork, but I'm really rather tired of hearing about the final scene in the new P&P film. Yes, I didn't really like it either, but just from reading http://www.austenblog.com/ it seems that this has become a point of obsession amongst the Austenite community. Really ( Read more... )

Well, another weekend. It always gets me how expansive and full of promise the weekend seems on a Wednesday or Thursday, and then the real thing arrives and it's over before you could even start half of the things you had planned. Such as today. Got up, headed over to the Ashman branch to, what I thought, was just to pick up some materials that ( Read more... )

As a follow up to a previous post, I found this article (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/books/14peng.html?hp) in today's NYT. The first person to 'go public' about buying the entire Penguin Classics collection is a librarian. She purchased the collection to ( Read more... )

I went and saw the new Pride and Prejudice film last night, in spite of the fact that it was opening night and was therefore PACKED. I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as the A&E version (because really, can you do justice to a novel like P&P in under 5 hours?) but I in fact supremely enjoyed the new version. In spite of the harsher colors ( Read more... )

Well, it's a Monday night, I'm at home with the Haagen-Dazs and I've finally finished the romances. Bet Me wasn't too bad (major sin: cliche every three paragraphs) but the Perfect Lover was really something else. The author does not leave much to the imagination and seriously makes me question the wisdom of sending her books to nursing homes ( Read more... )

So I'm at work, having truged down the length of State in my effort to get here. There doesn't seem to be any damage (or even smell of beer and puke) so it must have been a pretty staid Halloween this year. Probably because of the (overblown) efforts of the police to make any sort of movement downtown absolutely miserable. I'm sure the people ( Read more... )

So last night I had a dream about the book that I want to present to my Reading Interests class. Considering that I've been reading horror books for the past week and a half (and finishing Book 3 of my guilty pleasure), the fact that I'm dreaming about biographies is somewhat puzzling ( Read more... )

I made a pizza tonight. It was as delectible a pie as ever I had made. God, I am a cooking genius ( Read more... )

In keeping with the spirit of coldness and wrath, I've been rereading the Inferno. As I sit in a cold apartment, I think of the irony of making the center of hell solidly frozen. We're not at that point yet, but hopefully this promised warm-up will come. Otherwise, I might try slowing my heartbeat and go into hibernation until the spring ( Read more... )

It is absolutely frigid outside and my heat has not been turned on yet in my building. One more day of this, and I will be filling up the rent office drop box with all the wadded Kleenex balls I'm producing. Not happy ( Read more... )