Fluff for the Week

Fluff for the Week (FFW)
Lost in a Good Book , by Fforde: book 2 out of I've lost count. Thursday Next solves another caper and saves the world. Not as much fun as the The Eyre Affair as it's not as focused and at times works too hard, as sequels are apt to do. (Although I'm biased as I'd lose myself in Bronte over Dickens any day.)

Sweet Hush by Deborah Smith: Orphaned at 15 married and pregnant at 16, young girl rebuilds her personal legacy by rebuilding her family's apple farm and then must help her children build their own futures. Smith is a local author (local for me anyway :-). Her prose works. For the most part, it avoids campy even though the story could easily degenerate into it. I was surprised by the "twist" at the end. But the structure could be tightened--the 2 main characters take turns narrating the story and each switch is a bit confusing.

Movies I've seen recently:
League of Extraordinary Gentleman: I imagine I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't already feel like I was intimately acquainted with the characters. Quartermain and Nemo were the characters I thought worked best, but I haven't read King Solomon's Mines or 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, so they were the characters I hadn't already met in any detail. Mina Harker and Tom Sawyer are likeable enough characters, by type, and they do their jobs for the movie overall, but the intertextual connections between the League's Harker and Stoker's Harker don't work for me, as don't the ones between the League's Sawyer and Twain's Sawyer or the League's Jeckyll/Hyde and Stevenson's Jeckyll/Hyde.

The Princess Bride: I hadn't seen it in 10 years, but it's still wonderful.

I'm Inigo Montoya
What Princess Bride Character are you?

Good Luck Stormin the Castle!