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I've started to watch some Austen adaptions that I haven't seen yet and since I've only seen one Mansfield Park (the Billie Piper one) I started going through the old miniseries and I sort of felt like I needed to make a picspam. Although the number of images are quite limited because... well, there are certain things that I didn't bother to screencap. It's a very loooong adaption.



( See the picspam under here )

I just saw The Notebook for the second time. I cried like a baby. Those scenes at the end (I won't go into details in case someone hasn't seen this wonderful movie) are just beautiful. Just beautiful.

At school, me and a few classmates are sort of adapting Pride and Prejudice into a one-act intro kind of play. I wrote the script and what I did was that I took the key lines that are said in the beginning of the '95 adaption and sort of moved things around a little and... voilá! A script was born. It's only five pages but I'm really excited about it, it's not going to be brilliant or anything, but it's going to be fun. Lots and lots of it. I can't wait!

House was just brilliant as well. Hugh Larie and Robert Sean Leonard are such terrific actors.

I am diving into - and loving - Pride and Prejudice again. The reason? I bought it today at the bookstore along with some other things but it's P&P that's important. The first time I read this lovely and completely brilliant book, I fell asleep during the point where Mr. Collins entered the book in his boring fashion. I'm not there yet in the book during my reread but I'm absolutely devouring it. I had originally thought to borrow it from the library but once I saw that it was already lent, I went by the bookstore with the idea to buy a notebook but then stumbled upon Pride and Prejudice and I couldn't help myself since it was such a nice edition (the Oxford edition with notes and stuff in it) and it's such a wonderful book. And the cashier agreed with me. When she saw the book, she commented:

"Best book in the world."
"Yeah, something like that," I said.
"Are you buy it as a present or?..."
"I'm buying it for myself. I'm that selfish."
(politely laughs, lightly amused) "Haha. Well, I can understand you."

Austen fans unite!

Know any good, active, community where you can discuss her books and/or your experiences of the books? I'd love to join one. ♥ There's a reason why she is the only author who has a tag in my LiveJournal. It's not that P&P is particularly girlish or "in style" or something like that, even though it's the ultimate love story as far as I'm concerned, whose only competitor is Heathcliffe/Catherine in Wuthering Heights. Austen writes so many splendid pairings and some I might even prefer over Darcy/Elizabeth, but P&P is the ultimate love story. Not because Darcy is all that either. It simply... is, you know? The language is flawless, you can really picture yourself in the environment and with all the people and see the culture that influenced Austen's world. It's an engaging story where you both pity and love each characters as though they were part of your family. Because in a way, we've all met our Mrs. Bennets, Marys, Lydias, Mr. Bingleys etc. even though the gender might vary, at least I have met variations of these characters and I can recognize aspects of myself in most of them as well.

I'm gushing but I do so shamelessly because I cannot stop talking about Pride and Prejudice right now. It's sort of to the point where I wish that her books were real life. Because even though it might appear to some that the only point in the book is to find a suitable partner (even though I argue it's not the case), it still has more substance than most of our lives these days, or even contains more substance than modern literature (some exceptions). At least to me. I sort of have this idea that love has more substance than money, work or anything like that (maybe considered naive, but whatever - in the world that I live in, love is about the most essential part of life and there is nothing that I can think of at the moment which is more important - regardless what kind of love it is, love is always going to be important to me). Which is maybe why I adore Austen's books. Also not solely because they're so romantic but also because the languge is, as I mentioned before, so incredibly captivating and beautiful.

I can talk forever and make no excuses, but... I adore this book so darn much and I'll probably read this book until the letters on the page fade away and can't be read any more.

Do you have something that you love love love but you can't like... finish it (if it's a book or a TV show or something) and the mere thought of it makes you depressed? I have two things that I can think about right now that makes me feel that way:

• The Tudors


• Sense and Sensibility (I really like Marianne/Willoughby for some reason and I can't bring myself to finish it because it will make me depressed)

Those two things, makes me almost literary depressed if I think about it. My soul becomes heavy and I almost become sad.

Do you have something like that or is it just me who's a bit insane?

RL still taking up a lot of my free time so I haven't been the best LJ friend. School is stressing, even though we're right now not doing much and I feel like I need a lot me-time, and since my flist takes about one to four hours to check depending on the activity, it's a huge time eater that I have to cut down. But I will come back (/Atonement moment).

For those who are interested, I bought a blue-ish sort of bag. Blue-grey and it's one of those brands that were on sale. NYPD if it says anyone anything. I feel so pleased with a bigger bag. Also, I ended up purchusing Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility and you know what, they didn't have Pride and Prejudice (!). Not having Pride and Prejudice is like... not having War And Peace or Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj.

Anyway, I'm off to be "Persuaded" (god, I'm such a dork :P)

I also ended up sleeping a grand total of one hour. I'm surprised I'm not tired.

Within the last couple of days I've seen Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (the tv show/mini series versions). I just love those movies, especially the first one of those. It's so incredibly charming and Persuasion is just filled with this angsty stuff that I adore. ♥ Somehow I just love Austen books and movies made based on them (exception made by the Pride and Prejudice version with Keira that I will never ever see just because I know I'll be disappointed).

This icon is just eight pounds of adorable. :D I adore it so much. I wish there were more Charlie Brown icons out there.

I made a The Office fanvid which you can download here. Feedback is adorable :D