Books and dramas...

[dangermousie]

I am reading Eva Ibbotson’s Countess Below Stairs and it’s delightful: a cross between an early Woodhouse, if he wrote romantic instead of purely funny, and Georgette Heyer if she wasn’t a snob. It’s a novel about Anna, an aristocratic Russian emigree after the Revolution, who ends up in England in 1920, and becomes a housemaid in a rural aristocratic house with a bit too much enthusiasm. It’s very very funny, and rather sweet, and has some awesome characters in addition to Anna: such as a hero named Rupert (how could you not like a hero named Rupert?) who is a WWI veteran, the Dowager of the estate who communes with spirts who only tell her most mundane things, a butler with an elderly mother who likes to throw cups out of the window, Anna’s mother who wants to economize by selling vast quantities of milk, and horrid Muriel, believer in eugenics, among others. It’s a lovely book which would have made an awesome 1940s movie or maybe a cute Korean movie of today :P I didn’t even mind her being a Russian aristocrat, which is a big deal for me :P

In news that are less delightful, I read spoilers for ep 11 of Robbers and surprise surprise Oh Joon has a brain tumor. Raise your hands, everyone who is shocked. Yeah, I thought so. And after she forgave him, too! And she was the one who proposed to him. And he cried because he was so shaken and thought she wouldn’t believe him. And then they were so adorable together. All I know is, there better be miracle surgery.

I mean, how could you destroy cuteness like this:



And hotness like this:

Comments

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

I know! I'm totally peeved at the writers. That girl cannot lose another husband, darn it. And, you just know he'll try and push her away, so she doesn't get hurt. :(

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know, it would totally destroy her to lose a man she loves, twice. What is this, Misa? Ugh. And if they are going for 'this time she'll get to come to terms with it because she'll see him die' than I have only one thing to say to writers and it's unprintable.

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

It is not Misa. I cannot take another Misa. I think he has a blood clot, and not a tumor, though. Which makes it worse. And, I believe he got it because he always gets beat up. :/

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I couldn't take another MISA either.

And how sad that this is the result of his hard life. Eeek.

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

It's very sad. and. . . spoiler alert!









If he gets beat one more time - he could die. Save OJ!








BTW: Love your icon! And, why are there no Robber icons anywhere?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh :(((((((((((

Don't die, Oh Joon!

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

I think you might enjoy Elisa DeCarlo's very Jeeves-and-Woosterish romps called Strong Spirits and The Devil You Say, where a young sprig of nobility suddenly finds himself haunted by ghosts. And he is assisted by a butler who is a very unreluctant medium.

Very much light fun, but they might be quite hard to find nowadays, since they were originally published in the 1990s.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec, I'll try to locate them.

[main-hoon-emily.livejournal.com]

I have A Countess Below Stairs in my to-read pile. I was thinking of starting it next. A Song For Summer made me wary of Eva Ibbotson's books; I hated how she lulled you into thinking everything was going to be warm and happy and cozy and then BAM! Everything was messed up.

There's a movie from the thirties called Tovarich with Claudette Colbert that is supposed to be very similar to Countess Below Stairs. I haven't been able to find a copy of it, but it sounds like it might be good.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's very cute and fluffy, I promise.

Tovarch I saw, and it was very cute.

[lenabean.livejournal.com]

Have read that book last year, and LOVED IT. (One of the, like, 5 FUN books I got to read last year.) Am glad you discovered it too!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's so so adorable. I need more books by this author.

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

Countess Below Stairs sounds like something I'd enjoy. Thanks for the tip!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It really is very cute.

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

I've just been pottering about online because I can't sleep, and by way of friends of friends of, I saw that there's a new Vicky Bliss book due in September, "The Laughter of Dead Kings". Thought you might be interested.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I will love you forever now!!!!!!!!

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! So much cuteness!! Oh Joon has a brain tumor. Raise your hands, everyone who is shocked.

LOL, i wish i could raise my hand. We guessed this already :P

I hope there will be miracle surgery too and i can't believe we have to get until ep 11 for cuteness..i'm only at ep 6? :/

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

There is apparently plenty of cuteness in the intervening eps (the kiss is from way earlier). EEEE! He better get cured. If the weepy chick in BD could get better, so should he.

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

Oh yay!! Okay i'll keep watching..he better not die on me!

If the weepy chick in BD could get better, so should he. LOL!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I mean, he is much cooler than she is!

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

He so is! Even though I haven't see the weepy girl, lol. XD

Random: MatsuJun did a wedding photoshot for BOAO: http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/826/boaomarriageni5.jpg

That's just a preview image. I strangly want to be the girl in that picture..*worries*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, thanks for the link!

Here is a bit of Jang Hyuk cheering up:

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

GAHHHH! *turns into mush* Thank you!! I'm getting that poking abs feeling again^^

Np :) Hopefully the rest will be out soon. I'll link you when i see them :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Here is more:

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

AHH! *___* Hehe his undies are Calvin Klein...i probably shouldn't be starting there. *hides*

Thank you! You've been spoiling me with shirtlessness :P