[ebooktalk] televising books and reading in different formats.
- From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:02:12 +1000
Praise be for all formats. I read a lot on the BrailleNote too though
manually, and quickly, in case I want to look up a word or re-read a
comment.
I also have Simon Callow reading a selection of "Dickens' Letters" awaiting
my attention and a Terry Pratchett, title forgotten.
"War Horse" is on my Must Read list though I have a copy of the
audio-described performance also waiting for me.
At present I am wallowing in L. M. Montgomery for nostalgia and research and
loving it, plus a third of the way through a Mark Billingham crime thriller:
"Good as Dead".
Oh, sorry, Clare, and yes, that was the P. D. James sort of memoir, more of
a diary of a year.
Film and television:
I don't watch much TV either but we have a huge DVD collection as Chris is
such a film buff.
We have a friend who espouses the theory that each period drama also
reflects the era in which it was made. The "Scandalous" kiss on the streets
of Bath in the 1990s film of "Persuasion", I haven't seen it, as opposed to
the Hollywood clean-up of "Pride and Prejudice", making Mr. Collins Lady
Catherine's librarian in the Laurence Olivier-Greer Garson film because it
was deemed unacceptable to have such a revolting character as a clergyman.
Not a bad theory.
Take care,
Elaine
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