Sunday, February 13, 2005
Oh how I love the library!!!!!!
I know I have written about this before, but I just love the library!!! It is really great. One advatage to living in a big city is that we have several branches (19 to be exact) plus the Central library downtown. Needless to say there are a lot of books, and other media to choose from. I rarely ever go to the video store to rent movies. We usually just reserve something we like and place a hold then pick it up on our weekly library excursion. Then that way we don't have to drive around to the different branches, we just go to our favorite one nearby and get it off the hold shelf. And the movies are all fairly new. The have DVDs and VHS. As well as many music CDs and books on tape to choose from. Last couple of weeks I guess I kinda had Bronte on the brain so I reserved and watched several good movies. First I watched, Jane Eyre. This BBC version is the 3rd version that I have seen that the library has. It was okay, but not my favorite of the 3. Then another BBC video - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which I thought was rather good. Then I watched Wuthering Heights with Juliette Binoche & Ralph Fiennes. I think they both did a fine job on the acting. From there I watched Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, then Dicken's Great Expectations. I also checked out Emma Brown. I haven't started reading it yet, but it sounds like it will be good. It is Charlotte Bronte's unfinished novel. Some say her 1855 death deprived the world of what might have been her masterpiece. Her 20 unfinished manuscript pages about a lost young girl sat in waiting for 150 years until Irish novelist Clare Boylan decided to finish it. I also reserved Northanger Abbey. So I guess I must have been craving classic literature in some form or another. Before that I watched Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Nicholas Nickleby. Well, I am gonna end here for now! If you haven't been to the library lately, like I always say, Go Check it out!! Yes, pun intended, and no I don't work for the library! As always, Yahweh bless! And cuddle up with a great book, a dog or two & expand your mind!
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