Posted by: After5 on: January 19, 2009
Last night I settled myself comfortably on my couch to enjoy a historical movie called The Duchess. The movie is based on a biography of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire. It is a beautiful movie, and Kierra Knightely is truly lovely in it. The costumes were dreamy, opulent, a perfection, although I can’t imagine [...]
Posted by: After5 on: January 10, 2009
For the past few weeks I have been reading The Idiot. It is a slow progress, slower then I would like, but it is not Dostoyevsky’s fault. I am too tired to read by the time I sit down with the book. However, I am enjoying it so much; every word is right, every sentence is [...]
Posted by: After5 on: January 3, 2009
If you have read any works of Alexandre Dumas, then you must have loved them. And if you loved them, then you must have wanted more of his books. Well, a few years ago a scholar in France discovered a serial novel written by Dumas, which was published over a period of 10 months back [...]
Posted by: After5 on: December 23, 2008
So I chose to start blogging right before I went out of town for the Holidays, and that will not help continuity. But here I am blogging on my Holiday. I went to Barnes and Noble today, and here are a few things I found there which just delighted me. Did you know that there is [...]
