Good to get your latest. Long-awaited - since Cat Among the Pigeons. Superb - perceptive as ever before if not better. I am in the process of watching the 1971 tv series of S&S which are excellent. Did you read Emma? At the moment my favorite Austen. II believe you did review it tho I can’t find the video?

@mikegseclecticreads

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! I did ready Emma -- it's my favorite as well. Never did a video on it though, I read it before I started making these. And thanks for mentioning that 1971 series -- I may now watch those myself.

@58christiansful

5 ай бұрын

@@mikegseclecticreads What are you planning to review next?

@mikegseclecticreads

5 ай бұрын

@@58christiansful Next Poirot video coming up very soon :)

@58christiansful

5 ай бұрын

@@mikegseclecticreads Wonderful news. Which one is that? Hope you continue to delight us. You haven’t yet read Curtain, have you?

@58christiansful

5 ай бұрын

@@mikegseclecticreads You will be pleased to know that- A Gentleman in Moscow on TV Ewan McGregor has a moustache to rival Hercule Poirot's as Count Alexander Rostov in this series based on Amor Towles' bestselling 2016 novel. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks sentence the young, aristocratic Rostov to a life sentence in a small attic room in the grandiose Hotel Metropol in Moscow. To step outdoors will be a death sentence. Over decades of Russian history, Rostov roams the hotel, crosses paths with the hotel's staff and guests, including an actress, Anna Urbanova (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and becomes surrogate father to a nine-year-old daughter. Much of the series was directed by Sam Miller, a Bafta winner for I May Destroy You. Vanity Fair calls the show "enchanting”, and says that it "mounts Amor Towles' novel on an expansive, sumptuous scale", shot on locations and constructed sets in the UK. A Gentleman in Moscow premieres 29 March on

Wouldn't you consider "Persuasion " an equally emotional, brooding novel, if not more so? For me, that novel (my favorite of her books) is the most melancholic.

@mikegseclecticreads

5 ай бұрын

That's a great point. I'll have to revisit Persuasion sometime -- of all her books I've read, it's the one I recall the least clearly in my mind, but I think you're absolutely right