What to do?
From: KPRC Houston
From: KTRK Houston
It’s a typical Houstonian experience. Run home by the torrential flooding on my way to work.
{Always SomeThings}
Reading books,Word Nerding, and taking names.
Archive for the tag “Highly Estrogenized!”
Bollybook: Jane Austen’s Emma
There will be a Bollywood version of Emma. (Click on the picture to see a preview).
Sonam Kapoor, daughter of Anil Kapoor, stars as the matchmaking heroine (courtesy of BBC)
Thoughts?
I’m pretty excited. I, however, am very much an Austen fan. It looks pretty interesting, though. Hope it doesn’t end up being too fluffy or a remake of Clueless.
Review: Northanger Crappy?
Northanger Abbey
Random House UK, 2008
ISBN: 978-0099511878
Pages: 288
Reading Time: 3 days
Deya’s Tagline: It was just my imagination running away with me.
Cover: I absolutely adore Vintage Classics’ interpretation of a Jane Austen cover. Usually, publishing houses find Regency painting of a pretty, but distressed girl to put on the cover or some “pretty wilderness” to feature in a baroque frame. I found this approach very fresh and to the point. What’s the book about? Just look at the cover.
Janeites: Rest Easy. I come in peace.
A Mother-loving Distress! (“Tardy for the Party” Edition)*
The Joy Luck Club
(*Late Post: Here’s a video to cheer you up!)
Ballantine Books, 1989
ISBN: 0-8041-0630-4
Pages: 332
Reading Time: 3 days
Deya’s Taglines:
~ You’re smothering me.
~ Mother knows west.
Cover: The cover of the book doesn’t really tell me much and evokes a lot of stereotypes I’d like to run the other way from. There are dragons slithering along the edge of the title whose cartoonish nature makes it hard to take them seriously. I think a nice dignified watercolor would have been better.
Movie: The Joy Luck Club
Year: 1993
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Produced by: Oliver Stone
Length: 139 min.
They brought you into this world and they can take you out.
I thought I’d read this book because I had taken a class on Mothers and Daughters a few years ago. Granted, the class was a German class, but I feel the Pandora’s box that is mother-daughter interaction is an international sort of thing. It’s archetypal, for example, to wish for a mute button when your mother criticizes your outfit or if you’re a mother, to medicate yourself/drink enough to stand your children’s whining**. Even the dear Maya Angelou who does not allow negative commentary in her home has something to say about her mother.
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
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