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Isn't this a pretty picture? Apparently it's from an illustrated treasury of children's stories. I found it on Flickr. (Flickr, along with Etsy, is the epitome of all that is good on the internet.)


I have not posted in almost a month. this is unforgivable. But I am lazy. So here are some fun tags to remind me to post again. I have a ton to say but very little time to say it in, sadly.

The Movie Version

1. One movie that made you laugh:
Meet the Robinsons. Wacky surreal humor is not everyone’s cup of tea, but it certainly is mine! “I know! I’ll turn him into a duck! Ooh, it’s so evil!”

2. One movie that made you cry:
Finding Neverland makes me tear up every time. Especially after learning more about Barrie’s real life story…that poor guy. No wonder Peter Pan was originally titled “Peter Pan: the boy who hated mothers!”

3. One movie you loved when you were a child:
Robin Hood, both the Disney version and the Erroll Flynn version.

4. One movie you’ve seen more than once:
Pirates of the Caribbean, probably about 20 times. Can practically quote verbatim the first fifteen minutes.

5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it:
High School Musical 2, better than the first, just makes you happy all round!

6. One movie you hated:
The Wizard of Oz. Creepy, like a drug trip almost (not that I’d know what this is like), with unsympathetic whiny characters and a very weak narrative structure. Also, flying monkeys.

7. One movie that scared you:
The Sixth Sense. But in a good way.

8. One movie that bored you:
Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers. There has never been a more overrated series of movies. I liked the first and the third, and if you watch them with a rabid fan they can be quite enjoyable, but really, Helm’s Deep? Ew. That is all.

9. One movie that made you happy:
Stardust, though I’m not sure why. But it just gives me major warm fuzzies every time.

10. One movie that made you miserable:
My Boy Jack, if that wasn’t just the most dismal thing I’ve ever seen well I don’t want to know what is.

11. One movie you weren’t brave enough to see:
Alien, I am never watching that movie. Ever. Ever ever ever. No.

12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with:
Mr. Thornton. Squee! “I do not wish to possess you, I wish to marry you because I luff you!”

13. The last movie you saw:
Prince Caspian (It was good. Prince Caspian isn’t really my favorite Narnia book, though, so I viewed the whole thing as an extended teaser for the real good stuff, Dawn Treader. Also Ben Barnes is more adorable than a pile of adorable things.)

14. The next movie you hope to see:
Wall-E! Epic robot romance, bring it on!

15. What book would you love to see made into a movie?
The Ramsay Scallop would make a terrific film if they did it right, slow and beautiful, but somehow I doubt it’ll ever happen.

The Book Version (edited by me)

1. One book that made you laugh:
Forever Rose, by Hilary McKay. Rolling on the floor is more like it. Also the bit about ribbon-like sea worms in The Code of the Woosters.

2. One book that made you cry:
Along Came a Dog, by Meindert de Jong. It had a happy ending but the tone throughout was so painfully bittersweet and nostalgic…not necessarily a tearjerker, but so sad it’s painful to read.

3. One book you loved when you were a child:
The 21 Balloons was my favorite for a few years. Also The Pushcart War. I was literally convinced it was a true history of the war.

4. One book you’ve read more than once:
Um duh. Everything. Specially I Capture the Castle and the Harry Potter series.

5. One book you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it:
Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Awww I love Pigeon!

6. One book you hated:
David Copperfield. Reading Dickens is like trying to wade through a marsh of caramel and marshmallow sauce.

7. One book that scared you:
The Westing Game. It isn’t really scary but at the young impressionable age of 11 it spooked me out.

8. One book that bored you:
Um. Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility. Jane Eyre and Northanger Abbey are proof that not all 19^th century literature has to be dull…so they were very disappointing.

9. One book that made you happy:
Regarding the Fountain is very warm-fuzzy. The Winnie-the-Pooh series, Paddington Bear, Alice in Wonderland, Alfie and Annie-Rose, etc.

10. One book that made you miserable:
Of Nightingales that Weep. She marries her stepdad, okay? After her boyfriend leaves her and her friends all kill themselves. Lovely.

11. One book you weren’t brave enough to read:
None. I am brave enough to venture all.

12. One book character you’ve fallen in love with:
JOE WILLARD from Betsy-Tacy, also Mr. Tilney from Northanger Abbey.

13. The last book you read:
The Aeneid. It’s basically the Odyssey except less exciting and more Roman. Yay.

14. The next book you hope to read:
To the Lighthouse, my friend assures me it is absolutely chock-full of the Oceanic feeling.

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