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This week I finished Emma and Northanger Abbey. These were the last two Jane Austen novels that I had not read. I loved both of them, but I'd rank Emma 5 of 5 stars and Northanger Abbey 4 of 5. WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUT BOTH BOOKS BELOW I found Emma to be a more perfect and complicated novel. I knew...
Ok, I've spent too long playing with this, but it's so. much. fun!! Here's chapter 1 of Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I've also played with some songs and posted them on my Tumblr: "In Your Eyes" and "Elevator Love Letter".
Lets just say Satan came to you and asked you to be the archetect of a brand new Hell. Lets say that Satan is a fan of great works of literature and asks you to give the place nine levels, in honor of Dante's great work The Inferno. Who would you put in each level? Dante puts great men who were not...
Well I have had an exciting past couple of days in Bath. I arrived on Wednesday and did nothing but buy a phone and go to sleep. On Thursday I had an appointment at the Fashion Museum. After waking up early and getting a little lost wandering around, I found the museum and met Eileen who brought me...
I'm only 71 pages into Mother Night so far, but I'm already getting an inkling that it might be my favorite Vonnegut yet, which is no small compliment. I'm also still churning along in Mansfield Park. It's getting much more interesting, but I still have over 100 pages to go. I started Anne of Green...
I love to read, watch movies, and have blooming flowers, or at the very least some potted plants. I'm just about to finish a book that was written a long time ago describing what the area I live close to now used to be like. It's sort of depressing to think that the vegetation, birds and wildlife...
Ok, so I read the book version of this, and I'm only a few minutes into the movie, but I already love it. It doesn't stick to the book chronologically, but I like how they mixed it up. The characters are just like I imagined them to be...it is possible to love science fiction and Jane Austen. There...
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, mainly a result of avoiding the internet with the year of Girl Guide emails finally over, my first chance since September of not seeing 10-18 messages in the inbox, none of those related to writing. Also, the time has come to self-publish so I have...
My web presence has been shamefully absent from this vox this year so far, so this is a part of one of my upteenth resolutions to post more regularly. Last month was a really poor reading effort - nothing was finished. This month things are looking up: so far I've finished: Mansfield Park was my...
Stimulus check arrived, and not a moment too soon. I've squirreled away what I could, paid some bills, then went and got some new work clothes and shoes. I was a little naughty, and got three minor things that I didn't need, but wanted. No more spending. Except for the rum and beer that I'm bringing...
I just finished "Becoming Jane," and I really feel for Jane. I remember those feelings of liking someone and not being able to say anything. Just wanting to be around that person, and at the same time wanting to run away every time you see them. Wanting them to feel the same way about you and...
Look, I really love Miss Austen, so deal with it. I had the pleasure of watching the 2008 BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility earlier this week, and have been tortured ever since by the following question: Which version is the best, the 1995 movie or the 2008 miniseries? I finally reached a...
Synopsis: The greatness of George and Weedon Grossmith's masterpiece of comic irony, The Diary of a Nobody, rests to a large extent on perceptions of class. It purports to be the diary of Charles Pooter, a lower-middle-class individual of the mid-nineteenth century who lives at "The Laurels,"...
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