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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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 Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 07:40:14 AM
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I seldom agree with movie and book critics... So I was just wondering what was the latest movie or books the farmgirls were recommening.... I sat down and watched "becoming Jane" - I had purchased it a whle back and havent taken the time.. Loved it.. but of course I am a HUGE Jane Austen fan... and Pride and Prej. is my all time favorite......anyway, I much more trust this crowds assessment then some of the more fameous critics......
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
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Jami
True Blue Farmgirl
1238 Posts
Jami
Ellensburg
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 07:45:59 AM
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Rene I'm a huge Jane Austen fan as well. I just loved the series that PBS did on her books...so English and kind of delicate and sweet. Wish they made more movies like that. Anyhow, I haven't read all of the books so thought I would read those I haven't yet even though I've seen the movies now.
It's a very long read by I enjoyed Tolstoy's Anna of Karenenina (spelling?). I read it before Oprah suggested it (still mad at her for stealing my thunder, LOL) but it's a very good book and one of those that you reflect back on now and again and think of her character fondly.
Jami in WA
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 07:56:31 AM
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LOVED Becoming Jane!!!!!! I always seem to love movies critics slam! Guess I'm just not that smart!!!!LOL!
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 07:57:30 AM
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I loved Becoming Jane, too...cried through most of it, I think :); I like all sorts of films, though, and usually the period dramas are the ones I gravitate towards.
As far as movies (which we've been watching a lot of through Netflix because we don't have cable)...but my tastes vary...
We watched Atonement last week...beautiful film, but not what I thought it would be...My husband said it was like a bunch of Chanel No. 5 commercials all rolled into one...and in the end, I was fairly bitter about the way it ended...made me feel sortof "dead" inside, which I think is what it's supposed to do :), so it was a success???
Just watched The Notebook, also. That was a nice film....glad husband wasn't home to jab me about crying.
We're also working on the 3rd season the HBO series, "The Wire". It's by the same makers of the tv show Homicide: Life on the Streets, which takes place in Baltimore, MD. The Wire is not for folks who don't want to be faced with realism about drugs or prostitution, or gang murders, or corruption in city and state government. It's riveting and the cast is phenonmenal--we can't get enough of it.
Books: Well, right now I'm reading Shadow Song, by Terry Kay. It's an older book, but I loved "To Dance with The White Dog" and found this cheap at the thrift. I'm loving this too. Wonderful writer.
Just finished: Poe's Cat, by a Brenda_____, an aussie author. Too cerebral, and very depressing. Of course, it was about Edgar Allen Poe and his marriage to his cousin, and takes place mostly in her death room, but also a love story between the narrarator and her cousin. Yep. Yuk.
I tend to like what I like...and it can vary from totally sappy Hallmark films to well, The Wire. If it's well done, I'm on it.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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elphie0503
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Samantha
Gilmer
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 07:58:36 AM
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I love love love Jane Austen....watched "becoming Jane", "Jane Austen's Book Club", and Kiera Knightly in "Pride and Prejudice" all in one night....my favorite of her books is "Persuasion"....all hail the Jane!!!! 
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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Prairie Princess
True Blue Farmgirl
1075 Posts
Jodi
Washington
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 08:08:12 AM
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Oh, I absolutely love Pride and Prejudice; probably one of my favorite stories ever. I like the PBS series, too, Jami, and I also really enjoyed the new movie they did recently, but the series still has so much more to it. I have a confession, though... (and unlike Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail, I haven't read it a gazillion times..quite the opposite) I've never actually read the book!
And that is SO unlike me, usually I'll read a book long before I'll watch the movie they based off of it. But there's a certain level of concentration required to read Jane Austen, because of the lovely older language style, and my life isn't peaceful enough for that -- always get interrupted, lol. I think the most I've ever made it is to chapter five...
~Jodi
"Women are like teabags...you never know how strong they are until they get into hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
2701 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 08:20:36 AM
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I have loved Jane Austen for so long that I have actually forgotten when I first started reading her. I am a huge book nut to begin with and always have a huge selection of books to read, and England's Regency is my favorite time period of all. (In truth, I have been obsessed with english history since I was five years old, which means I have been obsessed with England for 37 years! I have had all of her books in soft cover and hard cover several times. And now I have the PBS special addition with all of her books in one volume, which I think I will be starting soon. I love to write as well and if I ever get anything published, she is definitely one of my biggest inspirations. I also love L.M. Montgomery and anything Dickens and Twain.
Take care everyone. I am glad to see that I am not the only Janite on the forum.
Farmgirl #170
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 08:21:50 AM
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I absolutely loved Pride and Prejudice. I'm going to have to see Becoming Jane again. When I tried to watch the movie the phone rang sooo much I kept losing track and didn't get much out of it. But it's definatley on my "Re-watch list."
A movie I just "re-watched" the other night -- The Lake House -- It's one of those you have sit and watch all of to catch what's going on. No interuptions. That's quite a trick in the busy house. LOL It's been out for awhile but then I haven't heard any of the newer movies that I think I really wanna see.
Melanie
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." Helen Keller
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Prairie Princess
True Blue Farmgirl
1075 Posts
Jodi
Washington
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 08:39:45 AM
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Jonni, I felt the same way about Atonement. It was definitely not what I was expecting, and I didn't like the unsettled, 'dead inside' feeling it left me with. The ending was a total shocker, too...NOT what I thought would happen!! I was a bit disapointed, but maybe someone else liked it fine...
An older movie I watched not too long ago that I absolutely loved was 'While You Were Sleeping', with Sandra Bullock. It's the first movie I've giggled through in a while... I put it on my 'fav' list, right up there with 'The Lake House', and 'You've Got Mail'.
Another cute one is 'Kate and Leopold'...again, an oldish one. Has Meg Ryan in it...
~Jodi
"Women are like teabags...you never know how strong they are until they get into hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Sandra K. Licher
True Blue Farmgirl
1106 Posts
Sandra
Horseshoe Bend
Arkansas
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Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 09:25:36 AM
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I'm not a big movie watcher simply because I can't sit still long enough and by the time I settle down for the night I usually watch something brief on T.V. and crochet and then read for awhile. BUT.....I did watch Miss Potter a week ago or so and loved it....the scenery most of all and I had read all of Susan Wittig's fictional books on Miss Potter (Beatrix Potter that is) which are mysteries and I loved those. I don't enjoy sad or depressing or violent at all...they like stick in my brain and I can't get rid of them....I have WAY too much empathy in my body and I can't separate even fictional from the fact that someone thought it up so I'm careful what I watch and read. I know....I live in a fantasy world yet I love non-fiction usually but right now I am reading the entire "Chronicles of Narnia"....now that I think about it I really love children's books and movies. My kids used to tease me about "the glad house" from Pollyanna because that's the world I want to live in....sappy but true! And now that I'm "retired" I actually can pretty much do that! LOL!
I watched the Prairie Home Companion movie but was dissappointed...I've listened to the radio show for years but the movie had no plot. I watched The Bee Movie and that was cute and also a movie on James Herriot's area where he lived and practiced...again, gorgeous scenery. I got that one at the library. I also watch travel videos that I get at the library or at garage sales. I recently have been watching a "walking tour" of all kinds of places around the world that I bought through Reader's Digest. I had never seen a walking travel video and it is pretty cool since it goes places you couldn't go or see in an ordinary travel video. I also love to watch train videos....different rail trips throughout the world. I know...I have pretty different tastes compared to most but it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble! LOL!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 10:06:20 AM
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Another Jane-ite popping in!
Love all her stuff (except Northanger Abbey, which I just couldn't get into at all). My favourite movie has to be the 'Colin Firth Wet Shirt' Pride and Prejudice, lol. But I really enjoyed the ones they ran recently on PBS Masterpiece theatre. (ITV british production) My favourite book of hers is Persuasion though, Capt. Wentworth is totally swoon-worthy ;) And Anne is such an endearing character.
If you like BBC period drama/comedy try - Wives and Daughters, Under the Greenwood Tree, Bleak House, Berkley Square (a brit. tv show that was only around for one season, but great!)and Cold Comfort Farm. Most of these you can find at your local library.
Enjoy!
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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elphie0503
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Samantha
Gilmer
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 10:47:32 AM
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Ok..so Meg is my Jane-twin...b/c there is nothing bad about Colin Firth AT ALL...wow!!!!! I love him in Bridget Jones' Diary as well!
Samantha
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 10:54:12 AM
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Well, then count us as triplets, because Colin is dreamy...but then, so are several of the gentlemen. In fact, PBS had a little interactive that I found ADORABLE, like listing all the Austen men with "personal type ads"..
Go play--have fun!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/menofausten.html
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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chessie
True Blue Farmgirl
403 Posts
Karen
Vista
CA
USA
403 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 12:04:06 PM
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Hey girls, I have read and watched Austen to death. My husband actually thought there was an Austen channel 'til he figured out it was dvd's. I liked "Miss Austen Regrets" better than "Becoming Jane" (which i liked) what say you all?
I also read (and watch when applicable) Dickens, Alcott, Montgomery, Karon, Gresham, Higgins-clark, Davison, and on and on.
Love and Blessings to all, Karen
www.edgehillherbfarm.com "where the name is bigger than the farm, but no one seems to mind"
blog http://edgehillherbfarmer.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
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Prairie Princess
True Blue Farmgirl
1075 Posts
Jodi
Washington
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 12:14:59 PM
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REALLY big Alcott fan!!! :D
~Jodi
"Women are like teabags...you never know how strong they are until they get into hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt |
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 7:37:36 PM
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WOW.... you gals are so amazing! Karen, I havent seen "Ms Austen's regrets".... So that goes on the list...and I havent seen atonement..and it is on the list. The Lake house was awesome - felt like an old film.. so classy. and Pride and Prejudice is one that I can watch over and over and over again.. Love it! and on a lighter side.. I also love "Everafter"... have you all seen that?
So.. on the topic of jane Austen - which book do you love the best?
Dont you think our "jane" should do a "Becoming Jane" book????? I'd buy it!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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chessie
True Blue Farmgirl
403 Posts
Karen
Vista
CA
USA
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 10:16:47 PM
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OK MARYJANE - we have two of us... thinking another book called "BECOMING JANE"....Is a great idea! I am a persuasion fan too.... Great taste karen
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jun 19 2008 : 11:07:59 AM
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Just got a recommendation to see, "In Love and War" about Ernest Hemingway....anyone see this one?
I never could get into Hemingway--found him rather chauvinist and jocular in his writing, but maybe his life (and death) were more interesting?
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 19 2008 : 6:31:24 PM
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Jonni, I am with you.. I always thought he was a little dark and...............well dark....but he did have an interresting life...
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2008 : 2:14:37 PM
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so add another Janite here. I enjoyed Becoming Jane and The Jane Auten's book club. Our quilt group is Janite as weenll. Every retreat, there are 2 a year, we watch pride and prejuidice with Colin Firth and Sense and Sensibility. We have been watching them at retreats for .....hmmmmm I have been there for 7 or 8 years now and the group has been around for 13 years.
They are who introduced me to her. See quilting is definitely a good thing becasue I became a Janite. LOL
Recent movie, August Rush. I really liked it.
listening to the quiet moments
Farmgirl #39
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2008 : 2:26:32 PM
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Carol Sue, I guess when you find a good thing, why change......lol
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
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