dude! Fiona! this is awesome. NYC is so much closer to Wethersfield than CT or B.C. are. yay! of course, I've lived 1.5 hrs away from NYC for almost my whole life and been there maybe five times, but improvement is good!
I really enjoyed The Seven Samurai; saw it a long long time ago. more recently, my mom and brother rewatched it, but I was super tired and went to bed after 50 minutes. (it is, yanno, Really Long!)
Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt. I've been wanting to read this. glad to hear your input. yeah, obvious endings and clueless heroines/assorted characters are annoying (you start wanting to thump them real hard), but such is life. re: the obvious, alas! not all authors are supremely brilliant and able to mess with you the way Megan Whalen Turner can. *g* re: the nitwits, well sometimes it does provide comic relief. think Midsummer Nights Dream. but alas, all to often knocking their heads together would be much more of a relief. XD
re: Lady of Quality *jogs memory at amazon* ah yes, I enjoyed this one. I get along with Heyer's notorious heroes much more than I do her aimiable ones. the one we have in B&N right now is Cotillion, where both the main characters are aimiable nitwits with a lot of growing up and *duh!* realizations to make, again with the head knocking. ;)
yay thoughts on the Austenathon! I enjoyed watching Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, but missed last night's showing of Miss Austen Regrets. (missed partly because I was on the Cape and watching a mystery with my dad. partly because I can't work up much enthusiasm for dramatizations of this sort. if it's good, I'm glad to hear it and can watch it later.) way back when, I did see The Barretts of Wimpole Street and thought it most romantic, but there we are.
unfortunately I have no good advice or, in fact, experience on the task of appartment finding. I would dearly love it if you would email me or call me and tell me all about what's in store for you for the next months. I have a feeling I will be envious. ^_^
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Date: 2008-02-04 11:48 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed The Seven Samurai; saw it a long long time ago. more recently, my mom and brother rewatched it, but I was super tired and went to bed after 50 minutes. (it is, yanno, Really Long!)
Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt. I've been wanting to read this. glad to hear your input. yeah, obvious endings and clueless heroines/assorted characters are annoying (you start wanting to thump them real hard), but such is life. re: the obvious, alas! not all authors are supremely brilliant and able to mess with you the way Megan Whalen Turner can. *g* re: the nitwits, well sometimes it does provide comic relief. think Midsummer Nights Dream. but alas, all to often knocking their heads together would be much more of a relief. XD
re: Lady of Quality *jogs memory at amazon* ah yes, I enjoyed this one. I get along with Heyer's notorious heroes much more than I do her aimiable ones. the one we have in B&N right now is Cotillion, where both the main characters are aimiable nitwits with a lot of growing up and *duh!* realizations to make, again with the head knocking. ;)
yay thoughts on the Austenathon! I enjoyed watching Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, but missed last night's showing of Miss Austen Regrets. (missed partly because I was on the Cape and watching a mystery with my dad. partly because I can't work up much enthusiasm for dramatizations of this sort. if it's good, I'm glad to hear it and can watch it later.) way back when, I did see The Barretts of Wimpole Street and thought it most romantic, but there we are.
unfortunately I have no good advice or, in fact, experience on the task of appartment finding. I would dearly love it if you would email me or call me and tell me all about what's in store for you for the next months. I have a feeling I will be envious. ^_^