A long and pleasant Sunday...

[fajrdrako]

Nice day: went to josanpq's place with lunacy_gal and maaseru for our annual post-Christmas brunch. Had a wonderful time, and we played a terrible game: Trivial Pursuit for Book Lovers, something like that.

Now, we are all readers. We spend a lot of time reading and we are, by any measure, well-read. But this game... turn after turn, none of us knew the answers. Collectively we got a bout one question in 6, and josanpq was discarding questions as she went. Most of the books cited were American (not my area of expertise) and quite recent (even more so). Though I'm still kicking myself that I didn't get the one where the answer was Vladimir Nabokov.

It was actually very funny.

This evening, we watched some of Lost in Austen. We wandered into the middle of (I think) the third episode and it was tricky to know what was going on, but after a while I got quite into the story... There were some nice surprises. But I kept expecting Thursday Next to turn up. I didn't recognize Jemima Roper, though she looked terribly familiar: turns out she was Nicola in Kinky Boots. And I really like Gemma Arterton, whose familiarity is more recent - she was Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.

Comments

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

Don't you hate that the games are made for the American public?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Not always! But this one... I shake my head sadly. It was awful.

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

Not all them are that bad. depends on the game I think

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

depends on the game I think

Definitely. The original Trivial Pursuit was Canadian, though managed to be (as far as I could tell) fairly good at not showing it. There's a Canadian edition of the game that is horrendously difficult - just proves to me I should know my Canadian trivia better than I do!

[katkim.livejournal.com]

I loved parts of Lost in Austen, but I think I'm too much of a purist to love it completely :)

Gemma Arterton also plays Tess in a BBC version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which I raved about on my LJ. Catch it if you can, it's a very, very good version.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I loved parts of Lost in Austen, but I think I'm too much of a purist to love it completely,

My problem is that I don't like Austen enough to 'get' it all, but it was more fun than I expected.

Okay, I'll try to get my hands on Tess.