A long and pleasant Sunday...

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.