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  • Dec. 27th, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Kate Winslet
1) The winner of the bracketology poll of great female characters was, unsurprisingly,

Buffy Summers

. She had to beat a lot of other worthy contenders to get there. I can hardly think of another more deserving, as she has touched so many of our lives.

2) I finished my Austen reread with Persuasion )

3) It's Oscar-bait season, and therefore a poll is in order.
Poll #1321416 Oscar bait
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

I plan to see/have seen these *verry serrious* Oscar-bait movies or Oscar-bait performances:

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10 (71.4%)

Revolutionary Road
8 (57.1%)

Doubt
6 (42.9%)

The Reader
5 (35.7%)

Slumdog Millionaire
8 (57.1%)

Milk
10 (71.4%)

Frost/Nixon
7 (50.0%)

The Wrestler
7 (50.0%)

Rachel Getting Married
9 (64.3%)

Changeling
3 (21.4%)

Gran Torino
2 (14.3%)

How could you have forgotten about (state in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Philip Seymour Hoffman is determined to be in every film ever made from now on. Agree/disagree?

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Agree
10 (83.3%)

Disagree
2 (16.7%)

Most awesome surprise nomination?

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James Franco, Golden Globe nominee for Pineapple Express
5 (38.5%)

Tom Cruise, Golden Globe nominee for Tropic Thunder
2 (15.4%)

Robert Downey Jr., everything nomination for Tropic Thunder
6 (46.2%)



Real-life holiday update coming soon.

Jane Austen reread part 5

  • Nov. 30th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Pride and Prejudice
In which I read Emma )

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Reread part four

  • Nov. 11th, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Dashwood sisters
Anyway, onto more pleasant thoughts. I am more than halfway through my Jane Austen reread (of her complete novels, anyway - I don't own any copies of her juvenilia or Sanditon/Lady Susan/The Watsons).

Mansfield Park, or in defense of Fanny Price )

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Reread part 3

  • Nov. 6th, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Pride and Prejudice
I continue my Jane Austen reread with Pride and Prejudice )

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Reread part the first

  • Oct. 24th, 2008 at 6:28 AM
Anne Elliot
I completed the first part of my Jane Austen reread with Northanger Abbey. )

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