Shout out for the P&P audiobook! I’ve read it multiple times, watched almost every version on film and now listening to the audiobook I am struck by new passages that I totally missed while reading. Certain conversations that I recall being much more circumspect are actually quite direct and to the point hearing them read aloud.
Thanks for sharing the essay on Nick Cave! I especially loved “Religion is spirituality with rigour, I guess, and yes, it makes demands on us" and “Grief gave me a reckless energy. It afforded me a feeling of invincibility and a total disregard for the outcome, a sort of fearless abandonment to destiny. The worst had happened". The latter reminds me of Leticia Ochoa Adams' writings on grief.
I do really really love the Branagh Much Ado - the soundtrack by Patrick Doyle is just intensely romantic and powerful. I enjoy the Whedon film, but it never comes close to the Branagh one, even though Keanu Reeves isn't quite working as Don John.
Shout out for the P&P audiobook! I’ve read it multiple times, watched almost every version on film and now listening to the audiobook I am struck by new passages that I totally missed while reading. Certain conversations that I recall being much more circumspect are actually quite direct and to the point hearing them read aloud.
Yes!
Thanks for sharing the essay on Nick Cave! I especially loved “Religion is spirituality with rigour, I guess, and yes, it makes demands on us" and “Grief gave me a reckless energy. It afforded me a feeling of invincibility and a total disregard for the outcome, a sort of fearless abandonment to destiny. The worst had happened". The latter reminds me of Leticia Ochoa Adams' writings on grief.
So glad you enjoyed it! And love the shout out to Leticia.
Thanks! I loved everything about this newsletter!
Thanks, Debbie!
AGREE-- I love that version of Much Ado About Nothing and it definitely shaped my high school years.
Mine, too!
I do really really love the Branagh Much Ado - the soundtrack by Patrick Doyle is just intensely romantic and powerful. I enjoy the Whedon film, but it never comes close to the Branagh one, even though Keanu Reeves isn't quite working as Don John.
I remember that article about Jeremy Irons' castle. So awesome.