Noodling

I hope to hit 60K words on the Behemoth novel tonight. ( Read more... )

In the meantime, I have laundry and housecleaning to do, and it's grey and rainy and I'd much rather curl up with a good book. I have been rather starved of stories lately; in the first two weeks of the year I read about half of the big serious Oppenheimer book, and all of Philbrick's Mayflower, then allowed myself some fiction in the form of The Lies of Locke Lamora, which I did not find entirely satisfactory, and now I'm wading through the latest Covenant book while almost completely failing to remember what happened in the previous one. That's the other problem with writing regularly; it eats up reading time!

Mansfield Park

Sorry, but Billie Piper was impossibly miscast as Fanny -- who admittedly can't be an easy character to make sympathetic to a modern audience, but to turn her into a buxom galumphing wench isn't the way to go. Apart from "not too bright," I can't imagine what made them think she was right for the part. I don't think I'm tempted to order this one on DVD.