It's been a long time

Everything is lovely. I am doing very well. Jared and I have been married for over three years. We are living just outside of D.C., where Jared is undergoing what he jokingly calls purgatory, also known as graduate school (okay, maybe it isn't so much of a joke!). No babies yet (I wish!), but I've been teaching middle school math at a Catholic school in the District. The neighborhood we live in has a great community - I know all of my neighbors, we have a listserv, go on walks, have a book club (I recently led Mansfield Park, this month was Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood), etc. Generally things are very well. And you all seem to be well, too. I think it's been 10 years since I discovered RoP - how time flies!

The new NA movie? Jared and I enjoyed it. I scanned y'alls opinions of it, so I know what you feel about it. Wink

I suppose I'm less discerning these days, but we thought it was humorous as NA should be. Davies made a few decisions that I thought were less than necessary or out of place (John Thorpe was all wrong!), and he cut some of Henry's excellent lines and gave him a melancholic turn that I didn't care for. My sense is that it would be hard to write and play Henry's or Catherine's parts unless you have a very good actors, because they could be so easy to screw up (Henry could be turned chauvinist or feminine, Catherine could become flighty and stupid). That considered, I thought they did well with what they had, despite some criticisms. I think that the NA movie along with the new S&S were the best out this round. Mansfield Park should remain a novel and not an adaptation; Persuasion.... sigh. Handsome actors, but not so subtle nor deep, were they?

Rhonda