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[newmoonstar]

Today on the good side: I bought the cast album of Jane Eyre: the Musical new for only $6. Hurray!

On the bad side: Two books I ordered from BetterWorld.com over a month ago finally came, in terrible condition. They were new books, not used, but they were still filthy and banged up and the covers and pages were all bent. Oy. And I don't understand it, since everything else I've ordered from them came on time in good condition. What the heck, you know?

On the good side: I had some very good beignets that were sweet and deliciously decadent.

On the bad side: I'm now terribly, terribly ill. I can't eat that much sugar. They were just heaped with powdered sugar and...oy.

So, it's been rather an up and down couple of days. I'm hoping a marathon of viewing various Jane Austen adaptations will put me back solidly on the 'good' side!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_toffee/]

gahhh I missed both "Sense and Sensibility" and "Wuthering Heights" [i know, not Jane Austen] on PBS--have you seen either of those adaptations? Are they good? Also, hope your recover from your sugar overdose! What are beignets? They sound scrumptious.

[newmoonstar]

I saw both Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights, and they're both worth watching. Sense & Sensibility followed the book pretty closely, and while I still think the movie was a lot better, it's still a very entertaining adaptation. Wuthering Heights, on the other hand, I've never really liked, and I've never actually read all of it, so I can't judge how it is as an adaptation, but it was entertaining in a soap opera kind of way; mostly it was lots of English people in pretty clothes screaming at eachother!

Beignets are pastry things from New Orleans, they're kind of like doughnuts, except that they're diamond shaped, and traditionally have powdered sugar on them. My mum says the ones we had tasted much different from real New Orleans beignets, but I've never been there so I wouldn't know!