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Currently Reading:
- Middlemarch by George Eliot. Fred Vincy just bought a horse that he hopes to sell to pay off his debt. I have a bad feeling about this.
- The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble.
- Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Recently Finished:
- Rebecca's War by Ann Finlayson
- Sorcery and Cecilia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede
- Surprised by Joy and A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis.
- The Moon by Night, Meet the Austins The Young Unicorns, The Arm of the Starfish, and Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle.
- The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Next Up:
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Liza's England by Pat Barker (and why, pray tell, doesn't my library have the second book of her Regeneration trilogy??)
Currently watching:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer season one. They're all so TINY! and cute! I want to put Buffy and Willow in one pocket and Giles and Xander in the other.
Recently Seen
- National Treasure You'll laugh, you'll wince, you'll laugh more - if you're an archivist, that is. Good to know I went to school for four years to learn to say "careful!" while turning over documents and rolling and unrolling them (and covering them with ACID!). The film also features Sean Bean as Nicholas Cage's nemesis. I imagine Bean in an interview saying, in that delightful accent I think is Northern English, "When I played Boromir I found I really enjoyed portraying covetousness. So, I've decided from now on I'll only take roles where I can covet things. So, in this film, I've really moved up, from coveting a ring to coveting a whole treasure." This is is particularly amusing to me because of how I imagine he would render the "o" in "covet."
- The Incredibles Dude! It's like Watchmen meets... shoot, I can't think of a good example, but any person-has-a-midlife-crisis-but-discovers-that-family-is-great-after-all film. A good one. I love Elastimom.
- two recent episodes of Saturday Night Live, the Liam Neeson one and the Owen Wilson/U2 one. Liam is looking very fit but awfully thin, I thought. The opening monologue pretty much stank, as did the ridiculous bird sketch, but the Irish home improvement show was fairly amusing, and the final sketch, featuring Liam as an aging hippie trying to borrow a drug-sniffing dog to find his lost stash of marijuana, was hi-freaking-larious.
Next Up
- The Librarian: Quest for the Spear. Apparently if you get TNT you've been innundated with advertisements for this absurdity, which stars Noah "Yup, STILL John Carter" Wyle as a 30-year-old with 22 degrees who gets what he expects to be a mundane desk job at the New York Public Library, but soon finds himself racing through jungles with a blonde, curvaceous "library operative" in search of something called "the spear of destiny." The ALA (American Library Association) has sent me a questionnaire to fill out if I watch it, so there might be a gathering at C's house on Sunday night to view this monstrosity.
- Kinsey. Monday night, I hope, if I can stick to the budget for this weekend's holiday shopping and haven't literally laughed myself to death over The Librarian.
- Middlemarch by George Eliot. Fred Vincy just bought a horse that he hopes to sell to pay off his debt. I have a bad feeling about this.
- The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble.
- Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Recently Finished:
- Rebecca's War by Ann Finlayson
- Sorcery and Cecilia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede
- Surprised by Joy and A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis.
- The Moon by Night, Meet the Austins The Young Unicorns, The Arm of the Starfish, and Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle.
- The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Next Up:
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Liza's England by Pat Barker (and why, pray tell, doesn't my library have the second book of her Regeneration trilogy??)
Currently watching:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer season one. They're all so TINY! and cute! I want to put Buffy and Willow in one pocket and Giles and Xander in the other.
Recently Seen
- National Treasure You'll laugh, you'll wince, you'll laugh more - if you're an archivist, that is. Good to know I went to school for four years to learn to say "careful!" while turning over documents and rolling and unrolling them (and covering them with ACID!). The film also features Sean Bean as Nicholas Cage's nemesis. I imagine Bean in an interview saying, in that delightful accent I think is Northern English, "When I played Boromir I found I really enjoyed portraying covetousness. So, I've decided from now on I'll only take roles where I can covet things. So, in this film, I've really moved up, from coveting a ring to coveting a whole treasure." This is is particularly amusing to me because of how I imagine he would render the "o" in "covet."
- The Incredibles Dude! It's like Watchmen meets... shoot, I can't think of a good example, but any person-has-a-midlife-crisis-but-discovers-that-family-is-great-after-all film. A good one. I love Elastimom.
- two recent episodes of Saturday Night Live, the Liam Neeson one and the Owen Wilson/U2 one. Liam is looking very fit but awfully thin, I thought. The opening monologue pretty much stank, as did the ridiculous bird sketch, but the Irish home improvement show was fairly amusing, and the final sketch, featuring Liam as an aging hippie trying to borrow a drug-sniffing dog to find his lost stash of marijuana, was hi-freaking-larious.
Next Up
- The Librarian: Quest for the Spear. Apparently if you get TNT you've been innundated with advertisements for this absurdity, which stars Noah "Yup, STILL John Carter" Wyle as a 30-year-old with 22 degrees who gets what he expects to be a mundane desk job at the New York Public Library, but soon finds himself racing through jungles with a blonde, curvaceous "library operative" in search of something called "the spear of destiny." The ALA (American Library Association) has sent me a questionnaire to fill out if I watch it, so there might be a gathering at C's house on Sunday night to view this monstrosity.
- Kinsey. Monday night, I hope, if I can stick to the budget for this weekend's holiday shopping and haven't literally laughed myself to death over The Librarian.
