Claire | October 29, 2009
Kdramas: 9 End 2 Outs-4/5 Boys Before Flowers-3/5 Goong-4/5 Fireworks/Exhibition of Fireworks-3.5/5 Full House-4.5/5 Last Scandal-3.5/5 Lawyers of the Great Republic Korea-4/5 My Girl-4.5/5 Partner-4/5 Robbers-3/5 Shining Inheritance-4.5/5 Snow White-3/5 Soulmate-4.5/5 Thank You-5/5 The First Shop of Coffee Prince-5/5 Who Are You?-4.5/5 You’re Beautiful-3.8/5 Reviewed: The World That They Live In Jdramas: 1 Litre of [...]
Claire | October 27, 2009
Miniseries/period dramas: BBC Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility (- and 2009) Emma() Persuasion () Northanger Abbey North and South Wives and Daughters Little Dorrit Daniel Deronda Victoria and Albert The Young Victoria Tess of the D’Urbervilles(Justine Waddell) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(Tara Fitzgerald, Toby Stephens) The Buccaneers Where Angels Fear to Tread Bleak House [...]
Claire | October 20, 2009
Ooch. Well, I guess I did flirt with him a little bit, didn’t I? But he’s European! They’re supposed to take it less seriously! Anyway…
Claire | October 19, 2009
The older I get, the more I discover that there is one thing, and one thing only, that makes sense. Christ, and him crucified. Christ on the cross is one of the most baffling, counterintuitive, and sometimes even seemingly perverse events which has ever been presented to the human mind, and certainly, as wonderful and [...]
Claire | October 8, 2009
Since the time has come for us to part Let’s part without meaning and without art Without sound, only sense And the death-inanities of grief. Don’t make it a brilliant pact – just a silly paragraph- a leaf in the door – shut gently without preconception. Walk away and don’t look back.
Claire | October 7, 2009
Claire | October 5, 2009
Was sick so I stayed home today. For some reason (okay, I admit it – it was because I watched the Korean tearjerker A Millionaire’s First Love, which was by the by lovely and not nearly as cliched as it sounds) I got to thinking about death, which set me to wondering which verse in [...]
