First, I have to get this out of the way; daylight savings time is ruining my life today. I planned to have a nice relaxing day — brunch with a friend, maybe a little shopping, maybe a museum, maybe a movie depending on how we’re feeling after a brunch full of goodies — but now I feel as if I’m already an hour behind! Really hate that. I’ll get over it in the next few minutes but putting it out there for anyone else that’s hates losing an hour of beloved sleep on the weekend.
Moving on to movies. Jane Eyre came out this Friday and I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time and since my husband has already said I need to recruit a friend (there was no way he was going) I’m going to try and convince a friend to see it with me today. A trailer is below for the curious. It looks absolutely delightful. I read the book for the first time last year and adored it so I have very high hopes for the movie. Has anyone seen it yet? What did you think?
I fit in some good reading this week too. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis was wonderful and I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to find her. Needless to say, I’ll be reading more. This book reminded me how much I love science fiction. I started The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick yesterday but I’m not having much luck with it. Right now it’s a lot of characters and one really giant ship and I’m having trouble seeing where it’s going even after reading the end. Not so sure about this one. I may give it till to the end of the day to make a decision about finishing.
Now some fun things:
Tips on how to make your books last a long, long time.
Dolly Parton, while I’m a country music fan, I do admire her for the work she does to promote literacy. I had the opportunity way back in the day when I worked for the publishing industry to meet her and some of the people who work with the Imagination Library program and it’s wonderful group of people who care a lot about what they do. She deserves a hand for making new readers every day.
The Tournament of Books is in play. Fessing up, when I play along with the NCAA tournament, I pick by color and mascot if I don’t know anything about a team (my husband is full of useless useful basketball knowledge so this doesn’t happen as long as he can stop me from falling back on my old ways) but I would have picked winners by cover. Cuz I’m a cover lover.
The Royal Mail is putting out some Harry Potter love.
That is all I have for today. Enjoy your 23 hour day. Happy Sunday!
Just Book Reading 
Oh, I couldn’t believe the time change…here I was, blogging away, thinking I had HOURS before I had to do anything else…and I saw a blog post that mentioned the time change. Thankfully…or who knows how long it would have been before I noticed?
Then I had to rush around manually setting certain devices, including my numerous clock collection that looks so good over the mantle, but which I groan about every season when the time changes…sigh.
So now I, too, must rush around instead of savoring the moments….
Here’s MY SUNDAY SALON POST
I still have to wait months for Jane Eyre to be released here 😦 Booo.
Ugh, daylight savings 😦
The new Jane Eyre comes out this Friday for us. A friend and I already decided months ago that we would see it together so hopefully we can see it this weekend. It looks fantastic.
I haven’t seen it, but my English 212 class (post-1700s British Literature) is actually going to take a little field trip to go see it—we’re reading the novel during spring break for class. I’ve heard wonderful things—it got a glowing review from A. O. Scott, The New York Times‘ film critic.
Daylight savings is no fun, but the payoff is that now it will stay lighter later, which is nice.
Definitely looking forward to seeing Jane Eyre too! I have seen the director’s other film “Sin Nombre” and it was well-done. Thanks for posting the trailer, that will tide me over until I can see it! 🙂