Life is very busy these days, as Mr. L and I have both started school again (our translation degrees). I'm only taking one class, but must squeeze all the reading and writing into baby M's naps or after he's asleep for the night, and by that time, my brain is basically mush. I have started my next batch of dolls, but they are moving slowly...will post some WIP photos as soon as I have something worth documenting.
We did make time to watch a movie this past weekend: Cary Joji Fukunaga's adaptation of Jane Eyre, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I've professed my love for for Gothic literature on this blog before, and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is one of my favourites, but somehow I've made this far without ever having read Charlotte's Jane Eyre. Anyway, now I feel I must because I loved the movie. It had all the delicious elements of the Gothic I love - desolate English landscape, dark castle, brooding man, struggling-to-be-free woman - but without descending into caricature or ridiculing the genre, which is easy to do. It's actually quite understated and beautiful and Micheal Fassbender (who plays Rochester) is a serious honey.
I even enjoyed Mia Wasikowska; she put me off in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (so disappointing!) and I didn't really get the big fuss about The Kids are Alright, but I thought she was very well-cast here. So, another addition to my ever-lengthening list of books I don't have time to read. Oh, how it mocks me. If you have such a list, you might consider this in the meantime...