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(Or rather, I am taking a break from doing a bit of cleaning -- which puts me in rather a Sophie Hatter state of mind -- to write this.)
As You Like It, William Shakespeare. Play readalouds have started up again! This play is still a delightful confection of nonsense, and I'm glad to get to read it aloud. Also, I got to read Phebe -- who I've been very fond of since I unsuccessfully auditioned for the play as a teenager. She really only gets one scene (and a few lines later), but it's a great one. The play doesn't really do enough to sell us on Silvius/Phebe, but I appreciate that they share a taste in poetry and hope that will be the foundation for a relationship. Actually I think that Phebe may be the only female character in Shakespeare's comedies who doesn't end up marrying the person she's attracted to, or at least that person's twin (in the case of Olivia).
Dune, Frank Herbert. I read this once about 20 years ago, watched the David Lynch movie several years ago, and recently have watched both the new Villeneuve movies and the SyFy channel miniseries. However I've never read any of the sequels, so I'm working to fix that before watching SyFy's Children of Dune. Reading this, so far it's a decent read and interesting to try to see how it's influenced speculative fiction more generally, and also I'm going "yeah, those adaptations were pretty faithful" a lot.
As You Like It, William Shakespeare. Play readalouds have started up again! This play is still a delightful confection of nonsense, and I'm glad to get to read it aloud. Also, I got to read Phebe -- who I've been very fond of since I unsuccessfully auditioned for the play as a teenager. She really only gets one scene (and a few lines later), but it's a great one. The play doesn't really do enough to sell us on Silvius/Phebe, but I appreciate that they share a taste in poetry and hope that will be the foundation for a relationship. Actually I think that Phebe may be the only female character in Shakespeare's comedies who doesn't end up marrying the person she's attracted to, or at least that person's twin (in the case of Olivia).
Dune, Frank Herbert. I read this once about 20 years ago, watched the David Lynch movie several years ago, and recently have watched both the new Villeneuve movies and the SyFy channel miniseries. However I've never read any of the sequels, so I'm working to fix that before watching SyFy's Children of Dune. Reading this, so far it's a decent read and interesting to try to see how it's influenced speculative fiction more generally, and also I'm going "yeah, those adaptations were pretty faithful" a lot.