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posted by ReneeMarie at 8:08 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009

Hello
Have you tried accessing the BBC (radio three) or Classic FM online - I think they work almost anywhere in the world?
I am really looking forward to getting the book.
Best
Wendy

posted by wendyrey at 3:36 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2009

Of course I love all of Teddy but here are some favs:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V9C...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VZE...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ATB...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AT5...

and this is about a book!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AT9...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AT4...

Do you know Flogging Molly? I really got into them lately (I started listening to all these Celtic bands or with Celtic influences)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014EV...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014ES...

posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 1:01 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2009

Hiii
Oi Teddy was amazing!!! I can't wait to see him again. He did a lot of my favorites and some new ones, can't wait for the new album now. He was as adorable as before (yes, Teddy's like the only musician that I keep on seeing LOL), charming, witty, funny, tall, British and thin (did I mention how I always like these tall, pale, thin guys like Mr. Lovely and David Tennant with nice hands). Oooo ooo everyone froze at one point - he was wearing a shirt and a sweater and while he was taking off his sweater, the shirt rolled up really high *eeeeeeeeee* and he flashed us all. Then Tift came out and they did 'Till I kissed ya.' When Tift did Good Hearted Man, my friend and I started sniffling...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bclh1zOQL...

Ooo thanks for netflix. I'll send some recommendations but we're pretty much on the same page :) Speaking of recommendations, I wish the librarything had what neflix has, where I can just send you a quick rec for a book.

Oh you're so lucky you're in a bookclub. My friends and I can never get it together. I understand busy but I think we can at least try, ahhh it's so frustrating. Wow, Les Miz is one of my favorite books and musicals. Love love love that book and the character of Javert. You will have so much to talk about.

I really want to do some reading challenges here but I would just stress myself out so much. I just started grad school, so the priority is that. Honestly I can barely wait till I'm done with school and have a job and not come home and do papers all the time and be PAID finally! And of course, move as far away from NY as possible...
Oh I used to have tons of lists everywhere before I found the librarything. I LOVE the librarything and that I can organize everything. LOL I know what you mean about not reading the books you really want. I really love the classics, especially 19th century lit but I keep on reading contemporary lit lately and thinking how I would really love to read more Trollope.

Oh I love Jude the Obscure! Most people that I know find Hardy too depressing. Did you read Tess of the D'Urbervilles? Hmmm well, Briar Rose wasn't bad, it's more of a book that you would teach in high school. Portrait of a Lady has been on my list for ages. I think I'll get to it this winter. Is the movie good?
Oo if you want a cute and funny mystery, check out
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425222...

Yayayay that was such a perfect video of Mr. Wonderful :)

posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 12:54 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2009

Oo check this out.
I was not expecting it to be sooo good.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0119125/

oi must stop with British shows and go to bed...

Yuliya

posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 11:15 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

Oooo ooo speaking of British blokes, I’m going to see one tomorrow, a musician Teddy Thompson, front seats :) totally love his music and he's so adorable and explorable. And he's got a guitar!
Here’s some of him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnQO29AUS...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IjevaAr...
(how cute is that?)

Aw man, I just realized that I’ve no idea how to add people by names on netflix. When you have time why don’t you send me a request from them. Here’s my email – Christine_doinel@yahoo.com.
LOL yea, my netflix queue is always at max too. Netflix rocks!!! Thanks to them I get my British fix daily.

Ha ha Laura was one of the first film noirs that I've seen and it's been downhill from then; I've a whole list of film noirs - it's about 5 pages long...It also got me into Dana Andrews. How hot is he in The Best Years of Our Lives and in a uniform. Ok, so I DO like American man but only from the 30's,40's mainly

LOL at least you just ramble on with hot guys, I ...blush. I've got the whole 18th century heroine blushing going on here. It's tragic, you'd think I was 12!

Ooo do report on that Miss Marple episode with Mr. Lovely.
Hmm Inspector Lynley was good. Have you seen Wire in the Blood? Or Midsomer Murders?

I am soooo annoyed that they canceled Primeval, it was such a fun show! I read that they are trying to make a movie, so hopefully
I am really looking forward to the new Doctor Who episodes and how the Doctor is going to be. I loved Eccleston and then I love David Tennant - who's always too much energy and so jumpy and adorable that just watching him puts me in such a good mood. Speaking of him, did you see Blackpool? He was singing :)

Oh I've been trying to see Green Wing for ages. Netflix doesn't have it grrr

Ooo you MUST read Excellent Women. I'm quite surprised that there's no adaptation of it. As for Enchanted April, I adore both the book and the movie.
Do you like fantasy? I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (& apparently I've got the UK edition) and can't stop raving about it. It's very well written in that 19th century style and funny. I'm waiting to see when the movie's finally going to be made

Oi I watch Fringe too! I thought that they managed to cancel it already but then caught the first episode. I like Sanctuary A LOT, it's on sci-fi channel and I hope that's still on too. I swear, every time I actually watch an American show, after a season or two it gets canceled. Remember Men in Trees? It was so cute and I always watched it and then they went and canceled it ahhhhhh grrr

Any book recommendations for me?

PS. I started watching the IT Crowd and it's ok the first few episodes but it becomes so funny!

posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 11:12 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

PS. really looking forward to watching this
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0810784/

posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 1:27 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2009

Yayyy at last someone understands me! I have tried and tried to force my friends to watch British shows and they just don’t get it. Honestly, British tv is the only thing that can actually keep me away from reading for hours. (After years of watching just British shows and almost nothing American, the accents are starting to rub off on me too. Today I was doing a presentation and I actually went Scottish on people with some words!!! I’m like – uhh did I just roll my Rs?)

OMG, Mr. Armitage in Vicar – I know the exact moment you’re talking about! First we see him open the door and I’m thinking – ooo here’s Mr. Loveliness but THEN they show him surrounded by all those books and picking up a whole stack of them – I was squeaking (luckily I was alone) and I literally had to pause for about 5 minutes and compose myself. And then they talked about Austen and BRITISH authors – I thought I was in heaven :) I could go on, every minute is just so brilliant…like when Geri thinks that he’s cheating on her but it’s only the sister and she starts following them and later she has to jump into that pool of dirty water and her look afterwards. Oooo ooo and what about the bunny episode, where they’re dressed as Easter bunnies
Ok, here’s something funny. We’ve been talking about how perfect Richard is. Well. Boy oh boy. In one of my grad English classes I had to do a presentation with this guy. I’ve barely looked at him before from afar (and my eyesight is really horrible) and then we were just emailing about it. Today he sits next to me to discuss the presentation further and I see this gorgeous guy around my age, 25 maybe, tall, thin, (kinda reminded me of Tyron Leitso but just 100 times hotter) dark hair like Richard’s, unblemished skin like porcelain, nice hands and the most beautiful blue eyes. Whoa! He's so loverly, Adonis incarnate. Of course he’s probably got a girlfriend and all….but I’m so tempted to just email him and ask him whatever…must resist temptation

Oh I know! None of my friends ever know any of these British guys and sometimes complain that it’s hard to understand. LOL I was just thinking about the name Alistair and how utterly British it is. ALL the men I like are British too. I used to have a crush on Lee Pace and still don’t believe that he’s American. Come on, look at him, I suspect he’s just hiding that he’s British. And you know that Cary Grant is actually British…(Firefly is one of the few American shows that I love. Also, Northern Exposure form the ‘90s and House and Bryan Fuller stuff – but his humor is soooo British) Oh and yea, one of my friends got me into Lost but I watch it mostly for the mystery part and all the hot men, it’s such a woman’s show I tell ya.

I LOVE MI-5 and Richard joins in Season 7. Netflix doesn’t have it yet so I watched it on youtube. Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XdjQ2lx...
Seasons 1, 2 are a bit slow but everything really picks up when blondie Adam joins.

Ok, Shows - are you on netflix by any chance? This way I can just click on it and recommend it to you?

Last few I was watching - rewatching Doc Martin, A Fine Romance (love love love that show, it’s so quirky), All Creatures Great and Small.
And I’ve been watching some Australian – have you seen McLeod’s Daughters?

Ballykissangel is a MUST – that’s where I got the name Assumpta, the name of Dervla Kirwan's character.

Ok I’ll stop for now…British stuff really gets me going.... :)
When you ask for books, what kind of books do you usually go for? (I see we give similar ratings to a lot like Possession. Enchanted April and Excellent Women were AMAZING!)

Yuliya

posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 1:22 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2009

Hiii
Thanks for the comments.
I LOVE Dawn French too! Can't wait to get my hands on her book. I'm going through a major Vicar of Dibley phase, it's sooo brilliant and funny. I'm guessing you've seen the episodes where Richard Armitage comes in and he moves in that little cottage with all his books.

eeeeee Richard Armitage *sighs* He's always great - North and South, Vicar of Dibley, MI-5, haven't seen Robin Hood yet (ok, his name in MI-5 is actually Lucas North, I always think that the last name is a reference to his role in North and South)

Oh noooo, my kind of person! You even know the Doctor. Would you happen to be an Anglophile too?

I'm always raving about all these British shows and British actors and no one around always has the foggiest idea as what I'm talking about :(

posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 10:21 am (EST) on Sep 14, 2009

Stopped by. Just thought I'd say hi. We still have a tiny number of books in common. Going to log out and head home from the library now, carrying my overloaded book bag with me. :)

Have a good weekend, Renee

posted by ReneeMarie at 9:16 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2009

Oh you must! I can lend you my copy. You know, actually, we should watch it sometime. It's on my list of films to get, but I could bite the bullet and buy it and we could have a girls night in! It's really very good.

AND! I'm fully updated on my books. So, aside from kids books, all that I have is on here. :) Aren't you proud of me?

At any rate - how about a night in sometime soon? We can just maybe hang at your place and watch movies? I got "Becoming Jane," "A River Runs Through It" and "The Wedding Singer" for my birthday!

posted by jennacz at 8:29 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2009

Guess what you're doing the first Monday in October? Yup, that's right: historical fiction book group. Michener's _Poland_ came out of the hat tonight. :-)

posted by ReneeMarie at 9:35 pm (EST) on Aug 3, 2009

Laura -

Have you visited the Web site http://www.literature-map.com/ yet? It's a site that visually maps relationships between similar authors. A reference librarian found it for me based on my description of a site I remembered. (It had sounded familiar to her, too.)

And, for reading suggestions, try using the name of an author you like and "readalike" or "readalikes" as search engine terms. Picked up that tip from someone in the Librarians Who Library Thing Group.

See you at book group, Renee

posted by ReneeMarie at 12:40 pm (EST) on May 28, 2008

The painting is by an early 19th century German painter, G. Kersting, and it's sometimes referred as "Lady at a Window".

Ellen

posted by ellenandjim at 10:49 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2008