Window seat!!!
Jul. 31st, 2013 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerIn a hotel this evening - it takes a long time to get to Canada - and WE HAVE A WINDOW SEAT. It overlooks a distant cornfields and a forest and a thicket of wild yellow flowers, and I have the perfect book to read while I sit there, Linnets and Valerians. I do not intend to leave until I am dragged out by wild horses and/or the promise of pie from Perkins.
We are also back in the land of Perkins! It is pretty exciting.
We are also back in the land of Perkins! It is pretty exciting.
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Date: 2013-08-01 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-01 05:53 pm (UTC)Linnets and Valerians was one of those books off my mother's shelf that I read and re-read when I was young and sick, or bored, or had run out of library books. It has inspired in me a lifelong urge to panel a hallway in my house in dark wood, and hide a door in it.
Based on Linnets and Valerians and The Little White Horse, I had a brief period where I tried to read more of Elizabeth Gouge's work, but her books for adults lack the everyday mysticism I found so charming in her children's literature. I still like her writing style, but I find myself wading grimly through the uplifting Christian messages, which seems rather counter to their intent.
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Date: 2013-08-11 11:17 pm (UTC)And I loved the description of Nan's hidden parlor. How lovely to have her own room with her own fireplace, all to herself!
It's too bad to hear that Gouge's adult books were so much more heavy-handed than her children's books, though.
Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-07 06:15 pm (UTC)http://www.themarysue.com/emma-approved-webseries/
Now, if they just have the same genderswap idea we did... But I'm excited to see Emma from these creators, even though Welcome to Sandition didn't end up interesting me.
Re: Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-11 11:14 pm (UTC)I also didn't find Welcome to Sanditon that interesting - I stopped watching sometime back in June, maybe - but I figure this one will have more story to it the Sanditon, which seemed to rely very heavily on the interactive element.
Re: Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-12 03:03 am (UTC)Re: Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-12 03:06 am (UTC)One of the things I love about Emma is that they're friends and, despite the fact that he's much older than she is, equals in a way that for instance Fanny and Edmund aren't quite. They're one of my favorite Austen couples.
Re: Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-12 03:11 am (UTC)"...didn't you see what happened with that Lizzie Bennet person? Show some discretion."
And at some point he must burst in while she's making a video and give a her a dressing down with "BADLY DONE EMMA" in there somewhere.
I would like it if they have the same relationship as in the book, with each having married siblings, rather than what Clueless did and making them step siblings. Because there's time to develop it here.
Re: Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-12 03:15 am (UTC)And of course "Badly done, Emma!" must appear somewhere! And the fact that she posts Knightly's rant, unflattering as it is, will show some character growth: that she's lost some of her egotism.
I kind of want to rewatch the recent BBC miniseries now.
Re: Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-12 03:19 am (UTC)I'm wondering at the title Emma Approved. Maybe the setup is going to be some sort of advice vlog that Emma decides to run?
Re: Emma!!
Date: 2013-08-12 03:28 am (UTC)