Netflix is usually pretty good about recommending period films for me to watch, more often than not based on books… so I can thank it for a few recent discoveries, including Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith and now Catherine Cookson’s The Black Velvet Gown.
After watching the ITV adaptation of the novel, I felt that the film only [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 29, 2008
a laundress and an heiress
November 16, 2008
It’s book fair time!
The Miami International Book Fair is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and seems to have drawn quite a lot of book lovers if the “Sold Out” bookstalls that I saw yesterday are any indication.
I started going to the fair four years ago, so I knew that I had to set a budget for myself [...]
