Comments on: Things in my week that were awesome https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/ before I read the middle Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jeanne https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20361 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:07:20 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20361 In reply to Gin Jenny.

I did love it–their Cleopatra was less regal and aloof than most. She was playful and fun, but her voice didn’t project as well as it should have. She fed a piece of apple to a groundling and then kissed him. She drank wine out of another groundling’s plastic cup.

]]> By: Gin Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20360 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:53:59 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20360 In reply to Jeanne.

Yayyyy! Enjoy it! I’m glad it got to you so promptly.

Are you going to write about Antony and Cleopatra? Did you love it? I am wild about seeing shows at the Globe, but I have been told that the current creative director there makes some bad choices.

]]> By: Gin Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20359 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:52:45 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20359 In reply to Athira.

Ugh, I know. His attitude really really REALLY sucks. It made me very angry.

]]> By: Gin Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20358 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:52:20 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20358 In reply to Cecelia.

Which one was your first exposure to her? I want to read one of her books but am not sure which one.

Hahahaha, the whole thing IS a sketch-fest, but to be fair to Henry VIII, he really did just want an heir. And no heirs happened. Poor dude. Even when he eventually got little Edward, the kid was all sickly and pathetic, and he died quite young after he ascended the throne.

]]> By: Nish https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20338 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:04:36 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20338 In reply to Gin Jenny.

I’m a big Partisan too :), I am convinced she had no idea what was really going on there, even the dress-cutting stuff. As per what I read it was only when she saw them kissing (consensual) that she realized what was going on. She was so traumatized she miscarried her child. Sad!

]]> By: Jeanne https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20311 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:40:13 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20311 So I may actually be the luckiest person in the world at this point. I went to the beach in SC for a week with my college friends and we had a great time, and then because my mother doesn’t plan ahead (she’s in her mid-80’s so who can blame her), we washed our clothes and flew to London for six days, where we slept for about 5 hours a night because there were so many fun things to do including a totally unplanned midnight show of Antony and Cleopatra at the Globe that got out at 3 am and there we were, careening around the crowd trying to find the car I’d hired to get my mother and her wheelchair back to the hotel, which was right under the London Eye and within walking distance except for curbs and cobblestones (my sister-in-law heard a British person exclaim “she’s using that wheelchair like a battering ram” which is totally unfair because I was very careful to not run it into anyone’s shins after one of my nieces did that to me). Anyway…
I got home and there was a pile of mail and in one of the envelopes was a copy of Alias Hook. I’ve been walking around for two days racking my brains trying to remember where I heard of it and why it came to me. My brains are not in their usual racking state, what with the sleep deprivation and the work emergencies that came up while I was entirely out of internet contact and the unsurprising fact that after touching every sticky handrail in south London I caught a cold. Finally, this morning, I thought I had time to catch up on some blog reading and here it is! The answer! While I was out having fun I also WON A BOOK!
Isn’t life great? I’m looking forward to reading it! Thanks!!!

]]> By: Athira https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20256 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:16:49 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20256 The Roxane Gay incident makes me so mad! Worse, that guy’s attitude sucks. I have a mental image of punching his guts in, but then that would only feed into his prejudices right?

]]> By: Cecelia https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20250 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:35:52 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20250 LOVE Mary Robinette Kowal. But that may just be because my first exposure to her was a *very* Cecelia sort of book. Authors can get by for years on the strength of one perfect book in my universe.

The whole Amazon thing is just madness.

I don’t know much about English royal history (I never did take European history, just lit), so I can’t say I had opinions about the wives previously, but the whole thing is *such* a sketch-fest. Uuuuurghhhhh. May need to take a shower now. (and such is life, unfortunately!)

]]> By: Gin Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20246 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:25:10 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20246 In reply to Lu.

Yeah, I’ve been interested but daunted by the volume of the source material.

]]> By: Gin Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/08/things-in-my-week-that-were-awesome/#comment-20245 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:23:33 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5758#comment-20245 In reply to Stephanie.

Hahahaha, you don’t have to! They might be terrible, I have no idea!

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