Mirkwood Reflections

A librarian at one of the libraries I frequent heard me mention that I wanted to watch Gamer because Gerard Butler stars in that violent action flick. Not my normal type of movie. Hers either, but she is a rabid Butler fan and so we discussed his various movies for a few minutes. The next time I came into the library, I found this note affixed to my stack of requested items. "Lisa - For my Gerard Butler fan. Check out Dear Frankie and Attila the Hun DVDs. Good Chick Flicks! Christine, The Library's Gerard Butler Fan" Are you giggling? I was! LOL We then had a chance to talk about those films in particular, which I'd already seen (of course!) and loved. Dear Frankie is a lovely movie and Gerard is particularly charming in it, especially because of his Scots accent shining through. Too many movies don't feature that. Attila the Hun is not a particularly good movie, but I enjoyed Gerard in that one as well. And Gamer ? Interesting premise. Pretty gory, in a vide...

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series rocks! When I was pregnant with my last baby in 2001, I overheard a librarian recommending Outlander to another patron. I sidled over, feeling like an eavesdropper, and discovered what they were talking about. I devoured the first four books in the series within just a few weeks, and that's all that existed then! Fiery Cross came out the following spring, if I recall correctly and I actually went out and bought that big heavy hardcover book brand new - first time I can recall doing that ever! Since then, I've re-read Outlander several times and re-read Dragonfly in Amber , Voyager , and Drums of Autumn . I'm saving the re-reads of Fiery Cross and A Breath of Snow and Ashes for this upcoming year, in preparation for An Echo in the Bone , which is set to release in the fall of 2009. If you like historical novels, especially really long ones, and even more especially romantic ones, this series should please you as much as it does me! ...