I needs a hubby!

My Harry Potter RPG, road_ahead is once again seeking a Lucius. Anyone up for it?
eonone? (I miss you!) kiwifruitbat? allova in your tons of free time? (kidding!)

I needs a hubby!

My Harry Potter RPG, road_ahead is once again seeking a Lucius. Anyone up for it?
eonone? (I miss you!) kiwifruitbat? allova in your tons of free time? (kidding!)

Book #26 - Much Ado About Nothing

(Have also in the meantime read Henry IV part I and A Midsummer Night's Dream for my Shakespeare class, but since I read those last year I won't count them. Same will go for The Merchant of Venice, which is up next.)

It amazes me that I spent _months_ in rehearsals for this play back in high school and missed so much of what was going on. Don Pedro flirting with Beatrice?! How'd I miss that? And speaking of Beatrice, I can now say that I do indeed think Portia is cooler. Not by _too_ much, and actually the only difference is that Beatrice wails to Benedick to duel Claudio until he concedes, whereas Portia would have just rolled up in drag and done it herself. ;)

And alas, among all the greater insight I now have into this play, I still think Hero is a cardboard cutout: insert good-girl daughter of venerable old man and love interest for hot young soldier here. Really there's not much else to her character. I guess Shakespeare was either saving himself for writing such awesome females in The Merchant of Venice or had already shot his load doing so.

Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Pages: 197

26 / 36 books. 72% done!

Book #26 - Much Ado About Nothing

(Have also in the meantime read Henry IV part I and A Midsummer Night's Dream for my Shakespeare class, but since I read those last year I won't count them. Same will go for The Merchant of Venice, which is up next.)

It amazes me that I spent _months_ in rehearsals for this play back in high school and missed so much of what was going on. Don Pedro flirting with Beatrice?! How'd I miss that? And speaking of Beatrice, I can now say that I do indeed think Portia is cooler. Not by _too_ much, and actually the only difference is that Beatrice wails to Benedick to duel Claudio until he concedes, whereas Portia would have just rolled up in drag and done it herself. ;)

And alas, among all the greater insight I now have into this play, I still think Hero is a cardboard cutout: insert good-girl daughter of venerable old man and love interest for hot young soldier here. Really there's not much else to her character. I guess Shakespeare was either saving himself for writing such awesome females in The Merchant of Venice or had already shot his load doing so.

Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Pages: 197

26 / 36 books. 72% done!

Book #27 - The White Dragon

Wow, this one took a long time to get started. I was seriously thinking about setting it aside and reading the third book in the Harper Hall trilogy first, since most of this book takes place after that one. But after page 100-something, it actually picked up and started showing some signs of a plot. Yay! Now I'm even more excited about reading Dragondrums to learn firsthand what happened and fill in the holes made by all the oblique references here. And to find out what the heck happened to one character in particular since the last time I read about him in Dragonsinger. He seems to have changed a _lot_ and it'll be interesting to watch it happen.

Eventually more headway is made into discovering the mysterious origins of Pern, and little details are starting to be familiar and fit into what I already know (but only dimly remember) from reading All the Weyrs of Pern years ago (before I was pregnant with Morgan).

Title: The White Dragon
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Pages: 445

27 / 36 books. 75% done!

Book #27 - The White Dragon

Wow, this one took a long time to get started. I was seriously thinking about setting it aside and reading the third book in the Harper Hall trilogy first, since most of this book takes place after that one. But after page 100-something, it actually picked up and started showing some signs of a plot. Yay! Now I'm even more excited about reading Dragondrums to learn firsthand what happened and fill in the holes made by all the oblique references here. And to find out what the heck happened to one character in particular since the last time I read about him in Dragonsinger. He seems to have changed a _lot_ and it'll be interesting to watch it happen.

Eventually more headway is made into discovering the mysterious origins of Pern, and little details are starting to be familiar and fit into what I already know (but only dimly remember) from reading All the Weyrs of Pern years ago (before I was pregnant with Morgan).

Title: The White Dragon
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Pages: 445

27 / 36 books. 75% done!