Sense and SensibiliTEA☕️
Added 2025-03-03 13:04:34 +0000 UTCI had a very nice holiday during which I got to Read Books and also Attend Birthday Parties. And I must admit, I was not expecting Sense & Sensibility's Drama Levels.
Currently working on Daredevil S3 Prison Fight, Sadly There's No Bob, but I am told that he does appear in S3E10, "Karen", so we may have to have a look at that one. Just...for completeness :D
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"Withering Heights" is another famous melodramatic novel. The plot is essentially, "Boy is offended, so he totally destroys two families." Ugh!
Mark Hammer
2025-04-03 15:03:44 +0000 UTCThe Count of Monte Christo is one of those stories where the hero's superpower is money. A bit like Les Miserables and Around the World in Eighty Days. It makes me wonder how many 19th-century French novels have that in common.
Sagitta
2025-03-08 16:55:08 +0000 UTCI think that one was with sea monsters.
Sagitta
2025-03-08 16:50:48 +0000 UTCI admit I've never read the full Sense and Sensibility, but the manga version is a good read an conveniently much shorter. And straying a little off topic, the background to the D&D adventure Storm King's Thunder is the plot of King Lear with the characters from Sense and Sensibility,. Which with hindsight is an obvious combination.
Sagitta
2025-03-08 16:50:25 +0000 UTCYou have a particularly lyrical descriptive ability, Ekij!
Ann Brookens
2025-03-04 23:29:53 +0000 UTCEkij, I love your desire to stay true to your roots! Long live Daleks!
Ann Brookens
2025-03-04 23:20:32 +0000 UTC"Perm and Permiability" was set in the seventies and most of the characters have those hanging bead curtains for all of their doors but nobody can get through them because their hair is just too big
Jesse Thompson
2025-03-04 15:40:38 +0000 UTCSin and Singability: As a young woman Sophia gets her chance to develop her aptitude for music when she goes to choir classes. One evening the choir master keeps her behind and gives her a private performance that changes the tune of her life forever. Fast forward 5 years and Sophia is now a married woman, but Sophia's husband just can't hit the same notes with his piccolo as her former choir master did with his flute. While Sophia knows she should stick to the sheet music, deep down she longs for something syncopated. Sophia seems trapped, forever humming the same dull tune when a mysterious baritone moves into the house across the street. If she opens her window in the late evenings she can hear him sing. This enigmatic neighbour has talent, stamina, breath control and an eclectic array of novel melodies that Sophia immediately finds herself resonating to. Dare she try and orchestrate a harmony? Needless to say there are more than a handful of semi-quavers before this song comes to a rest.
Ekij
2025-03-04 08:51:44 +0000 UTCMy favourite romance. I was wondering could I recommend it but was lacking the nerve. I second this, it's got a lot of series behind it but the author works to make it accessible to new readers.
Fenrir Wolfganger
2025-03-03 15:36:23 +0000 UTCSense and Sensibility is what happens when a sensible author is given a herd of "I'll die but I'll do it dramatically" characters, and I bet she loved and hated most of the writing process.
Cassandra
2025-03-03 15:01:18 +0000 UTC"A Civil Campaign" by Lois McMaster Bujold - Jane Austen is even included in the dedication.
Crochet4Joy
2025-03-03 13:48:05 +0000 UTCnow have they made a version with added zombies?
SpicyMcHàggi
2025-03-03 13:39:23 +0000 UTCOne "Just stab me now" by a mysterious J. Bearup comes to mind! Cheese please!
Leonard Richard Stanway
2025-03-03 13:35:09 +0000 UTC"Flex and Flexibility" [NSFW!] (Skip the sequel "Probe and Probability" that one is just a *P*articularly *O*bscene *R*omantic *N*ovel.) and "Stab and Stability" : A harsh look at the reality of bipolar disorder in the 18th Century. When a servant turns up dead from a stab wound the family are more interested in avoiding scandal than in finding the truth about what happened. But what actually did happen? Who is to blame and might it happen again? "Rel and Reliability" (a look into the superiority of the Dalek measurement of time)
Ekij
2025-03-03 13:23:33 +0000 UTCMight not be true for everyone, but Count of Monte Christo gave me big melodrama vibes. I remember reading the "children's illustrated" version in primary school, and got around to reading the full novel in my 30s, and HOOBOY! everyone is running at 11/10 for drama all the flipping time.
Haldon Lindstrom
2025-03-03 13:16:53 +0000 UTC
