Insert ye standard “oh my God, is it really 2022 already, oh my God is March really over already.” Here are some Things I Liked this month. Snacking Cheese I’m going to be trotting out the “I don’t have guilty pleasures” line several times in this post. For those who are new to the blog, I ... Read more »
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The Austathon – Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
This is going to be either a really short or a really long post because I kind of have nothing to say about this film but I also feel I could say nothing about it at great length. Very, very technically speaking Jane Austen in Manhattan is an adaption of a work by Jane Austen. Where to ... Read more »
The Austathon – Emma (1972)
This is a difficult adaptation to talk about because I had very mixed feelings about it. It’s another BBC adaptation, from the same person who did Sense and Sensibility (1971) but not the same person who did Persuasion (1971). That was Granada, which may explain why it seems to have had a much ... Read more »
Books for Ukraine
EDIT: BOOKS ARE ALL GONE. FORM IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY. IF YOU HAVE SLIPPED THROUGH THE NET SOMEHOW AND HAVE MADE A DONATION BEFORE THE FORM CLOSED PLEASE EMAIL MARY(AT)QUICUNQUEVULT(DOT)COM AND WE'LL SORT YOU OUT! Hello. Here’s a thing ... Read more »
Things I Liked – February 2022
I stopped doing Things I Liked during the pandemic because it was getting hard to Like things. And then it got briefly easier to Like things. And now it’s hard again. Well, fuck. Having said that, I am trying to maintain something that resembles a positive mental attitude. So here we ... Read more »
The Austathon – Persuasion (1971) + Bonus Content
So, last post I mused about why there was a thirty-year gap between the 1940s Pride & Prejudice and any other Jane Austen adaptations. Turns out, there isn’t. Because there were three other Pride and Prejudices (Prides and Prejudices?) in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. These were, not in chronological ... Read more »
NetGalley for Normal People
This isn’t a post I ever thought I’d write but I suppose I didn’t really think I’d end up watching the entire filmography of Hugh Grant. Anyway, a preview of Husband Material recently went up on NetGalley, available for anybody with a NetGalley account to download (it’s still available, by the way) ... Read more »
The Austathon – Sense and Sensibility (1971)
So this is a four-part mini-series from 1971 that opens with a long shot of lilies on a river that you think is stock footage but then it pans up to show a big country house and you realise that, no, they had some poor bugger pointing a camera at a river for three minutes until they had enough lily ... Read more »