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ladybusiness, Ellen DeGeneres's production company has optioned Naomi Novik's excellent novel Uprooted, apparently. And if you haven't read Uprooted yet, why not? Go, read! Let's just hope DeGeneres is a little quicker off the mark than that bloody Peter Jackson, who optioned Novik's Temeraire series NINE YEARS AGO and has still done nothing with his option. Time's a wasting, buddy. There are Napoleonic dragons to film, when you finally finish making all 21 chapters of The Hobbit into separate movies. Actually, that's hyperbole. I don't know exactly how many chapters there are in The Hobbit. All I know is I really wish he'd hurry up on bringing Temeraire and Lawrence and all their human and dragon friends to the screen.
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selenak, and in honour of the New Horizons mission's successful trip to Pluto, have John Scalzi's Pluto Tells All. Truly, truly hilarious.
Am I the only person in North America who's always been kind of meh on To Kill a Mockingbird? I read it in my early teens as a set text in English class (we had quite a few American set texts, despite being in Canada) and it was...fine. I didn't DISlike the book, just didn't have this transcendent experience of adoring it, re-reading it over and over, going nuts at the prospect of a sequel or prequel, etc. It's just, there's all this huge hype over Go Set a Watchman, and I feel kind of left out of the frenzy.
Gakked from...someone on my f-list, have the New Yorker on Marriage Equality and the Dred Scott Decision.
Cross-border weirdness abounds. I looked into buying The Sorrow and the Pity on DVD. It's a really, really good French documentary about Vichy France and collaboration which I saw in class back when I used to be a university student. However, the price on Amazon.ca is $61.39 CDN, which is....a lot. I looked on Amazon.com, expecting the pricing to be similar, but there's it's only $29.47 USD. Even with cross-border shipping and positing a bad exchange rate, that's still a hell of a difference. Methinks I may ask for it for my birthday from family members.
I have Mad Max: Fury Road thoughts and links, but I'm running out of middle-of-the-night energy, so they'll just have to wait until the next update. But in short, go see that movie. It's one of those movies that should definitely be seen on the big screen at least once.
Oh God, I have to try and get some more sleep. I woke up at 2:15 am and it's now 3:47 and I still haven't fallen back to sleep. I need my sleep, dammit. I have to get up in 3 hours, and as Rex Harrison said in The Reluctant Debutante, "I wouldn't mind just a little nap before the office."
ladybusiness, Ellen DeGeneres's production company has optioned Naomi Novik's excellent novel Uprooted, apparently. And if you haven't read Uprooted yet, why not? Go, read! Let's just hope DeGeneres is a little quicker off the mark than that bloody Peter Jackson, who optioned Novik's Temeraire series NINE YEARS AGO and has still done nothing with his option. Time's a wasting, buddy. There are Napoleonic dragons to film, when you finally finish making all 21 chapters of The Hobbit into separate movies. Actually, that's hyperbole. I don't know exactly how many chapters there are in The Hobbit. All I know is I really wish he'd hurry up on bringing Temeraire and Lawrence and all their human and dragon friends to the screen. Gakked from
selenak, and in honour of the New Horizons mission's successful trip to Pluto, have John Scalzi's Pluto Tells All. Truly, truly hilarious. Am I the only person in North America who's always been kind of meh on To Kill a Mockingbird? I read it in my early teens as a set text in English class (we had quite a few American set texts, despite being in Canada) and it was...fine. I didn't DISlike the book, just didn't have this transcendent experience of adoring it, re-reading it over and over, going nuts at the prospect of a sequel or prequel, etc. It's just, there's all this huge hype over Go Set a Watchman, and I feel kind of left out of the frenzy.
Gakked from...someone on my f-list, have the New Yorker on Marriage Equality and the Dred Scott Decision.
Cross-border weirdness abounds. I looked into buying The Sorrow and the Pity on DVD. It's a really, really good French documentary about Vichy France and collaboration which I saw in class back when I used to be a university student. However, the price on Amazon.ca is $61.39 CDN, which is....a lot. I looked on Amazon.com, expecting the pricing to be similar, but there's it's only $29.47 USD. Even with cross-border shipping and positing a bad exchange rate, that's still a hell of a difference. Methinks I may ask for it for my birthday from family members.
I have Mad Max: Fury Road thoughts and links, but I'm running out of middle-of-the-night energy, so they'll just have to wait until the next update. But in short, go see that movie. It's one of those movies that should definitely be seen on the big screen at least once.
Oh God, I have to try and get some more sleep. I woke up at 2:15 am and it's now 3:47 and I still haven't fallen back to sleep. I need my sleep, dammit. I have to get up in 3 hours, and as Rex Harrison said in The Reluctant Debutante, "I wouldn't mind just a little nap before the office."
