Where Are The Answers?

Okay....
I'm sorry!

I know I said I'd post  the answers to any questions given to me back at the beginning of August. Unfortunately, August got away from me.

So, here's your opportunity!
If you would still like to ask me any questions (those of you who haven't asked any), you still have a chance!

Thursday (September 5) is my birthday, and what better time to post such a post? So, while I won't be posting my answers on that day, I will be the next day (Friday, September 6).

So here's your chance!

Please! Ask Away!!!!!!! ;-)

PDC Review 4- From Time To Time

Sorry I haven't gotten to this sooner- I explain why in the video. And here is my fourth review for the Period Drama Challenge at Miss Laurie's blog Old-Fashioned Charm. This time, I am reviewing the period drama/ghost story/family movie From Time To Time- starring Maggie Smith.

PDC Review 3- The Importance of Being Ernest 2002

This is my third review (second for March) for the Period Drama Challenge at Miss Laurie's blog Old-Fashioned Charm. This time I watched the 2002 version of The Importance of Being Ernest with Colin Firth and Reese Whitherspoon. My opinions:

PDC Review 2- Amazing Grace

This is my second review (first for March) for Miss Laurie's Period Drama Challenge.

This time I did Amazing Grace.

And it's not too late to participate, if you want. Just go to Miss Laurie's blog for details.

And, now, here's my review:

Enjoy! :-)

PDC February Questions

As part of Miss Laurie's Period Drama Challenge, I have tag questions to answer at the end of each month. I know I'm a few days late, but better late than never, right? ;-)


1. What period dramas have you watched in February?
I'm afraid the only thing I watched for reviewing was Season 1 of Downton Abbey.

2. How many Charles Dickens adaptations have you seen?
In total of my life? Or over the challenge? If over the challenge, then none, yet- thouugh, there shall be. In life, about nine and a half.

3. Do you prefer heroes that are spotless wealthy gentlemen or gritty hardworking men?
Hard to say.... There's a side of both that I like. It really all depends on the man, himself, but I think I do tend toward the spotless wealthy- though, I have no problem with gritty hardworking, either.

4. Do you tend to prefer heroines that are sweet and gentle or adventurous and spunky?
Why can't they be a bit of both? I like it when they have a bit of both in  them.

5. Do you enjoy listening to period drama soundtracks? Do you own any?
Yes, I do, when the music is interesting to me. I have the A&E/BBC P&P soundtrack on my computer, and some songs from North&South (especially the main theme), and, perhaps, a few others I can't think of at this moment.




Enjoy my answers, and my coming reviews for the month! :-)
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Downton Abbey Season 1 Review (for period drama challenge)

So, I finally got my first drama and review done for Miss Laurie's Period Drama Challenge at her blog
Old-Fashioned Charm. And here it is:

Enjoy! :-)

Period Drama Challenge

Miss Laurie is having a period drama challenge at her blog Old-Fashioned Charm. The goal is to watch a certain amount of period dramas (there are various category amounts to pledge to) and review them on your blog between January 7 and July 7- that's 26 weeks!. The number categories she has organized are:

5 Films- Period Film Admirer

8 Films- Period Film Lover

10 Films- Period Film Devotee

12 to 15 Films- Period Film Fanatic

I, personally, have decided on 15-20 films, as I don't have much of a life (let's face it, it's true :-P ). Does that make me Period Film Obsessed? I plan to do at least one film a week, which could enable me to do the full 26, but, of course, I'm giving leeway for anything that may come up. Who knows, though, I could do up to that or more! Still, I'm only going to pledge the 15-20. If you would like to know more about everything this involves, just visit the post at Old-Fashioned Charm to get your answers. (You can also click on the button on the left side bar to get there.)

I am possibly getting a late start on this, though, just as I am on my 2013 reading list, as I am on my second flu bug in a row. :-P This has been causing me not to feel like reading or watching anything. It's amazing I actually felt up to posting this. :-P

I shall be posting a review for each TV drama, movie, or series I watch. They will probably be short and and sweet, knowing myself, but hopefully they shall be good. ;-)

And I shall be adding the name of each (as a link) to this post to create a full list.

Period Drama Reviews

(TBD)

2013 Projected Reading List

 As there has been a change in plans, and I shall not be seeing The Hobbit until tomorrow after I get out of work, and that will make tomorrow very busy, I have decided to post my projected 2013 reading list tonight.

I shall only be posting the first 40 books on my list, and it will not necessarily be the order I actually end up reading them. Also, as it did happen this past year, this list could change in both number and content. You have been warned!

As with the last list, + denotes a re-read, and = denotes non-fiction.

• Jane Austen's Letters=
• Pride and Prejudice+
• Lady of Milkweed Manor
• The Fairest Beauty
• The Apothecary's Daughter
• The Night Dance: A Retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
• The Girl In The Gatehouse
• Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty"
• Northanger Abbey+
• Water Song: A Retelling of "The Frog Prince"
• To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn
• Princess of The Midnight Ball (Princess #1)
• Wives and Daughters
• Entwined
• The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence #1)
• The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern #1)+
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew=
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1
• The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves #2)
• That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy #3)
• Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia
• Till We Have Faces
• Violets Are Blue
• Kristina: The Girl King
• The Widow of Larkspur Inn (Gresham Chronicles #1)
• Shirley
• Murder On The Links (Hercule Poirot #2)
• Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without A Country
• Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess
• Oliver Twist
• Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle #1)
• Snow White Blood Red (The Grimm Diaries Prequels #1)
• Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves #3)
• Manuscript For Murder
• El Dorado: Further Adventures of The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Romeo and Juliet
• Little Dorrit
• A Girl Aboard The Titanic: A Survivor's Story=
• The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister=
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot #20)

Now, let's see how many books I actually manage to read this year, and if this all of this list makes it through. ;-)

Happy New Year, everybody! :-D

2012 Reading List Finished

  As it's only a day or so until New Year's Eve, and I shall most likely be busy that day, I have decided to post my completed list of books I read in 2012 now.

It turned out that I read many more books than I had originally planned and the whole list changed in exactly which books I would read. If you want to refresh your memory as to which books I originally intended to read this year, you can check out the post here. I must say some of the books stayed the same, but many left and more came in. I originally had 25 books picked out, and it expanded to 50!

Now, before I begin the list, I must give you a little bit of a key:

* denotes a book I did not finish (usually due to some sort of moral objection)

+ denotes a re-read

= denotes a non-fiction book

In order of first book of the year to the last:

1. Darby O'Gill
2. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
3. A Christmas Carol/The Chimes/The Cricket on The Hearth
4. The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society #1)
5. Men of Iron
6. Tuesdays At The Castle (Castle Glower #1)
7. The Gammage Cup (The Minnipins #1)
8. Wonderstruck
9. Out of The Silent Planet (Space Trilogy #1)
10. The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Perilous Journey (The Mysterious Benedict Society #2)
11. The Iron King (The Iron Fey #1)*
12. Cat Among The Pigeons (Hercule Poirot #32)
13. The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Prisoner's Dilemma (The Mysterious Benedict Society #3)
14. Back Home+
15. Austenland*
16. Lisa and Lottie
17. The Night Circus*
18. Perelandra (Space Trilogy #2)
19. The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society #0.5)
20. David Copperfield
21. The Murder At The Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)
22. The Wind In The Willows
23. The Merchant's Daughter
24. Daddy Long Legs+
25. The Soldier's Cross
26. I Want It Now! A Memoir of Life on the Set of Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory=
27. Finally and Forever (Katie Weldon #4)
28. Behind Jane Austen's Door=
29. At The Sign of The Sugared Plum
30. The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
31. Life In A Medieval Village=
32. Only A Novel
33. The Scarlet Pimpernel
34. North and South
35. Beyond Downton Abbey=
36. The Angel of Music Part 1: The Enchanted Violin*
37. Elizabeth I: Red Rose of The House of Tudor+
38. Sanditon/The Watsons/Lady Susan
39. The Diamond Secret: A Retelling of "Anastasia"
40. Heartless
41. An American Guide To Britishness=
42. Brave: The Junior Novelization
43. Clockwise (Clockwise #1)
44. The Nutcracker and Mouse King/The Tale of The Nutcracker
45. Extricating Young Gussie (Jeeves #0.5)
46. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1)
47. Number The Stars
48. Asking For Trouble (London Confidential #1)
49. Sew, It's A Quest (Bookania #1)
50. Dragon Slippers (Dragon Slippers #1)

That's the whole lot!

New Year's Day or so I shall be posting my projected list for 2013!

See you then! :-)