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  1. On 6/7/2020 at 5:23 PM, Jeannaisais said:

    Yep, keeping our fingers crossed for a June 2021 visit! 

    And with the civil unrest here now, Lake of the Ozarks is definitely yesterday's news.

    I'm home full time for summer break now, won't have to return to work until August. Places are starting to open back up and I'm hoping pools will open soon as well so I can take the kiddo and not be cooped up inside all summer!

    That would be the correct Lady Susan film!

    And we watched the version where Jim Caviezel portrays Edmond Dantes. 

     

    Social distancing and isolation can be tricky for everyone, but I guess It's a lot more difficult and challenging when you have kids.

    I really did not like that movie version of Montecristo. I definetely have to read the book n_n

  2. On 6/5/2020 at 12:41 PM, Jeannaisais said:

     

    Oh, Toleda was amazing. We got to visit as part of one of our program excursions. I went with Academic Programs International - they were amazing and incredibly helpful all around! I also really enjoyed visiting El Escorial. We also had excursions to Cadiz, a flamenco night (amazing)

     

    Yeah - Lake of the Ozarks got mocked a bit after I mentioned that. I'm in Northwest Missouri in one of the cities on the Missouri River. I've done pretty good with staying home except for grocery shopping and the times the school district insisted we go to work (twice per week from mid-March to mid-May, that was....annoying).

     

    There's a movie for all of Austen's books. Her writing is decent and I've always enjoyed her style.

     

    I finished Monte Cristo. Apparently I had an abridged copy though so will have to read the umabridged edition someday. Watched the film too and that was....frustrating lol I'm now reading the Hobbit and have determined that movie Bilbo was not appropriately preoccupied with food lol

     

     

    It's really nice you could visit so many places in Spain! I'm glad you still want to come back.

    I didn't see the news about people in the Ozarks during the pandemic until now you mentioned it. I just google it and went to see the pictures. As my searches are set in Spain by default, I usually cannot see news from other places if they are not more in mainstream international media. I should changed that because usually we are used to live and know just our very small portion of the world.

    Anyway, it doesn't sound like a good move to force you to go to work when you probably were able to work from home. How are things now?

    Here you can go out more now, and most people do, but some people seem to have gotten used to go out as little as possible and do so right now (me among them). Now is mandatory to own and wear respiratory protection at all times you cannot keep 2 meters distance with everyone else.

    The Lady Susan movie I found is too recent (2016) and it's called Love & Friendship; I guess it's a new version?

    What  Montecristo movie did you watch? I've been watching the one with Gerard Depardieu all my life (they put it in public TV each year in Spain). I have not read the book yet, but I really enjoy this movie version (I'm sure is not too good, but I'm so used to it since I was a kid that I really like it). I especially like the rol of Bertuccio in this one.

  3. On 5/24/2020 at 12:07 PM, Jeannaisais said:

     

    Granada was amazing as a student, especially being so close to a lot of other neat places in Andalucia. I loved it there! I plan to show it off to the hubby and kiddo someday too and see Barcelona for the first time with them (yeah, I know, I should have made it there but I enjoyed southern Spain too much lol).

     

    There are lots of neat places to visit in the US and every state is unique in its own way. Missouri is known for the Lake of the Ozarks (google pics, it's pretty).

     

    Emma is Austen's longest work....if we want something more digestible as a first approach to Austen I would recommend Lady Susan. It's epistolary (letter between characters). The movie on this one was also hilarious, and the first film I saw by myself in the theater lol.

     

    Gatsby picks up around chapter three but the narrator is incredibly unreliable. The film with DeCaprio is actually really close to the text and would be sufficient for understanding the overall plot of the novel.

     

    I also wish teachers let us choose novels more often. I mean, I obviously found a bit of passion for the classics thanks to teachers exposing them to me, but it also hindered my journey through epic fantasy series. I never finished reading Lord of the Rings *because* of what one of my English teachers said to me, something along the lines of 'that's not worth reading, read this instead'. I only had one professor in college that was okay with us using any type of fantasy work - he even had The Eye of the World as required reading on his syllabus.

     Barcelona is a really nice place, but I prefer the cultural background of Andalucía, or even Toledo. I really like how you can see the misture of the different cultures that developed there.

    Wow, Lake of the Ozarks really looks like a nice place! Maybe a little crowded in the summer, I guess? But really nice.

    Then Maybe I shouldn't start reading Austee with Emma. I'll check first the Lady Susan movie, thanks n_n

    Ig the movie with DiCaprio represents the novel, i think I'm good without trying to read it. Too confusing for my simple tastes ^^u

    I also had people saying things like that about books I enjoyed as a kid and teenager but mostly my teachers were happy if you were reading something, anything XD I remember one time I was working in a bookstore event and the owner was like that and even said that kind of things to the clients. I didn't understand his idea of bussiness, shaming his potencial clients about their questions about books he didn't like. But I really enjoyed working in a bookstore even if it was just for a couple of weeks.

  4. On 5/23/2020 at 5:56 PM, Hayl3y said:

     

     oh no worries ! I like her art ! I wish I could be that talented !

    Avatar was quite good, but I didn't like is much as all the others we talked about. All times favourite is Full Metal Alchemist ☺️

    Hahaha, she would tell you it just takes effort. That's what she tells me, even I couldn't draw even the simplest thing.

    I think we here have kind of an obssesion with avatar ?

    I have not seen the "new" FMA series. Just the original anime that doesn't match with the manga. I have the manga at home but I never really finished reading it. I've read the beginning a hundred times, but at some point I was not able to buy more manga and then, a loong time after I buyed the rest of the manga but did not read it since.

    Do you think it's better if I just see the new anime?

  5. On 5/21/2020 at 8:54 PM, Jeannaisais said:

    Gracias! I went to Cordoba for a weekend while I was there - so many beautiful places in Andalucia. My sister and I were going to spend several days in Sevilla. I've been there before but for only a portion of a day and really want to explore more of that city. It's where I originally wanted to study abroad but the program dates worked better for Granada, which was fine because who can so no to the Alhambra? We plan to come next year if everything has settled down. Sorry to hear about the lost part-time job - all of this is no fun for anyone! I'm in northern Missouri, Midwest USA. The closest internationally known city to me would be Kansas City, home of the 2020 Superbowl Champions for the first time in my lifetime lol

     

    Strange how that can happen with books where something else just kinda glides in and takes over without you realizing it until after the fact.

     

    I enjoy Austen and have read all of her works (college class, not out of desire). My favorite is Emma - which most people don't like but I think Emma's character is hilarious.

     

    My juniors (11th grade/ 16-17 year olds) just finished reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening. My freshmen (9th/14-15 year olds) read a series of short stories from Poe, O. Henry, Bradbury, etc. Juniors also went through The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, and Hamlet and the freshmen got the great joy of The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Romeo and Juliet. I do plan to include more choice reading time next year though.

    Sevilla is really beautiful. I just visited for a day once, but surely I'll come back some time. But as a city to live as a student I think Granada is better suited, so maybe it was nice that it worked that way for you in the end.

    I've never been out of Europe, so I know little about the U.S. but I hope I have the chance to visit some time in the future.

    Maybe when I decide to read something from Jane Austen I can start with Emma. But I don't think it's going to be soon. I watched a movie adaptation not long ago and it seemed interesting.

    Wow, those are very different choices than what we could read as an assigment for school in Spain. I once tried to read The Great Gatsby but it was the same as with Anna Karenina. I would have love for my tachers to let us choos something more on the line of epic fantasy XD

  6. On 5/21/2020 at 6:08 PM, Hayl3y said:

     

    The very last one was Carole and Tuesday. It was pretty cute but not in a fantasy setting. Here's the link ^.^

    I also watched Castlevania (I'm a gamer XD). It is fantasy but very dark. I loved it.

     

    Back on the PG13 things, the girls made me watch a lot of Lego movies. They are not anime but they are very funny ?

     

     

    Carole and Tuesday is precisely the last anime I saw. I love it, it's so cute, sweet and uplifting. And I also saw Castlevania. I really like the main characters and their relationship. I only suffer because this last season Adrian is all alone. My wife was so upset about that that she made a fan art.

     

    https://illustraterg.tumblr.com/post/613741151242141696/i-just-finished-castlevania-season-3-and-i-just


    (If you prefer me to stop sending you links, just say so, I wouldn't want to impose)
     

    I haven't watch much lego movies, maybe I'll give them a go. Currently we are rewatching Avatar: Legend of Korra (we finished rewatching Legend of Aang just a couple weeks ago).

  7. 5 hours ago, Jeannaisais said:

    Tu ingles es much mejor que mi espanol (no quiero poner los acentos...). Pero, me encanta espana - estudie alli en 2011 en Granada. Fue a regresar este verano pero, mi hermana y yo tenemos que cancelar neustros viajes. Pero, escribiendo en un otro idioma es mas facil que hablando, yo pienso.

     

     

    And back to English for me lol I definitely want to check out Dracula, it's probably my next TBR classic. I started Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and forget why I put it down but I was only two or three pages in when I did. I've heard Anna Karenina is one that some people love, some people hate, and others love it and hate it lol

     

    I'm officially past the halfway point of Monte Cristo and all the loose ends are kinda coming together but still lots of loose ends to go. And it's certainly still an acquired taste. In my head I'm beginning to think of Dumas's authorial voice as a male Jane Austen....lol I'm just glad to be reading things that I WANT to read again instead of things I'm told to read. So why do I do that to my students....hmmm gonna have to work on that for next year! 

    Wow, nice spanish there! Hahaha. Yo estudié en Córdoba y he visitado Granada varias veces. It's a really nice and beautiful place to study and live n_n Where are you from if you don't mind me asking? I'm sorry your sister and you had to cancel your trip. A lot of people have had problems like that caused by covid-19 (I lost my part-time job and had to cancel several martial arts programs I was going to attend). I hope you can come to Spain in the future.

    The same that happened to you with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, happened to me with Anna Karenina. I don't even remember why I stopped reading but I never pick it up again. I guess I'll try again someday.

    I hope the close all the loose ends in the end. Sometimes it's nice when they don't but only if its done in a satisfactory way. I have a friend who is a huge fan of Jane Austen but I have not read anything from her. Shame on me, I guess. Waht are you making your students read currently?

  8. On 5/19/2020 at 11:11 PM, Fox said:

    Possibly. What I do know is this; Robert Jordan is the name of the main character in Hemingways "For Whom the Bell Tolls". So, I've always thought it was more of a nod to Hemingway than anything else. 

    Yes! I found out about that recently, but I read in an interview that he didn't used it for that reason. By the answer he provides it sounds more of a coincidence...

    "Question 37

    What made you decide on Robert Jordan as your pseudonym? Is it Hemingway? — Ishamael

    No, it wasn't Hemingway. I simply wanted to separate the different kinds of books that I wrote with different names, and I made lists of names with my real initials and picked one name from one list and one from another, and Robert Jordan was one of the names that popped out."
     
    https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Source:SciFi_Channel_Chat_at_Dragon*Con_97,_28_June_1997
  9. On 5/19/2020 at 12:05 PM, Jeannaisais said:

    I've only read Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, with the brief jaunt into Queen of the Damned. I was hopeful I would enjoy her novels beyond Interview so maybe I need to try some of the others? We shall see. I have so many texts on my bookshelves that I've never opened but always wanted to read though, especially some classics. Texts like Dracula, or Anna Karenina, or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are ones people expect me to have read already, but I haven't! 

     

    Loved Mistborn! Although, I'm glad I chose not to read any of Sanderson's work until after I had finished Wheel of Time - I was worried I wouldn't like his writing style and that would have tainted my completion of the series. All I will say is that Sanderson completed Jordan's work beautifully.

     

    Update on Monte Cristo - still enjoying this read though some of it is getting quite dense, as the 'classics' tend to do. But it's also getting to the meat of the plotline so, that's good. I think I'm pretty close to the halfway point already as well!

    I read Dracula and Dr. Jekyll an Mr. Hyde as a teenager, but not Anna Karenina. I enjoyed Dracula a lot but some of my friends in the reading club didn't. I guess it caught all my atention with its dark settings and characters. But maybe I wouldn't enjoy it so much now.

    I finished WoT before reading anything form Sanderson, but I still recognised some of his style retroactively. I agree with you that he did an amazing job completing WoT.

     

    I'm halfway through Dragon Reborn and I think I'll keep re reading WoT ultil the end, but you are inspiring me to take Montecristo sooner than later n_n

  10. 12 hours ago, Elgee said:

    Welcome to DJ, Jardius! Hope you're managing to find your way around?

     

    I'm not a native English speaker either, though I grew up in a small town where roughly half the people were English speaking so grew up with the language. I'm from South Africa, and my home language is Afrikaans (derived mostly from Dutch & German).

    Where are you from, if you don't mind me asking?

    Hi! Thanks. I think I'm managing, more or less ^^u Although I still have much to explore and learn.

    I am from Spain and I just studied a little English in school and then on my own. I was lucky to be able to spend a month in Ireland before college and that helped a lot. But sometimes I notice my english is an incoherent mix between british and american english.

  11. On 5/19/2020 at 4:45 PM, Hayl3y said:

    hahaha we watched it all ?

     

    It was an awesome surprise that show. The graphics are amazing, the characters so endearing (even the villains ? ) and the story quite deep ! Usually we are much more into animes, but here it was just wow ! 

    Nice!
     

    It certaninly is a really good series. What animes have you been watching lately, if you dont't mind my asking?

  12. On 5/16/2020 at 5:13 PM, Hayl3y said:

    OMG i love it, she's very talented !

    And indeed it was She-Ra I thought of first ? My daughters really love that show

     

    She thanks you ?

    That show is awesome. Maybe your daugthers would enjoy the show Dragon Prince if they like She-Ra n_n

  13. On 5/15/2020 at 10:17 PM, Jeannaisais said:

     

    I haven't read Stormlight Archive yet, but Mistborn trilogy was great. Read that this past fall and just couldn't put it down!

     

    I think you're probably spot on with my level of investment in Interview and subsequently Louis's character/POV, makes it difficult to switch to Lestat. I will say there were portions of The Vampire Lestat that made me go "oh, okay, I get that now". But overall, meh. A part of me is simply determined to get through more of Rice's novels because I enjoyed Interview so much though. Time will tell. Right now Queen of the Damned is doing a brilliant job at putting me to sleep at night XD

     

    My guess is Monte Cristo will be finished before the month is over. And TEOTW will probably be restarted before the month is over as well lol

    I haven't read the Mistborn Trilogy yet. I guess I started reading Sanderson at an odd place after reading Elantris. But I'll get to Mistborn eventually; I'm sure it's totally worth reading.

    What other Rice's books have you read? I've read just a couple outside Queen of the Damned ones, but they didn't left a lasting impression.

  14. 5 hours ago, Hayl3y said:

    Now i'm trying to find where you avatar comes from, because it rings a bell... but i can't find it lol

    Is it from an american cartoon or anything ? ?

    Hahaha, no, it's not. It's a drawing my wife did for me as a present. That's suppose to be me with my protector. She published it in her tumblr, but I don't think you saw it there.

    It is based in the aesthetics from  the She-Ra, Princesses of Power new series.

    Here you can see the complete image and the story behind:

    https://illustraterg.tumblr.com/post/190116891288/hi-long-time-no-see-happy-new-year-ive-been

  15. 13 hours ago, Jeannaisais said:

     

    Hey, good excuse for a reread, even if the other isn't reading lol I need to convince my brother to read them. He's a huge Sanderson fan so I'm positive he would enjoy WoT.

     

    And Monte Cristo is pretty interesting so far. I'm loving the narrators voice too, it's kind of comical. I made it through Interview with the Vampire easily, read that one a couple times, taught it, did a psychoanalysis essay on it in college....started The Vampire Lestat in 2016....just finished it last month (granted, I started graduate school for a Master's of English in 2016 as well, but still, I read other non-school books in that timeframe). I think my main problem is that I simply don't like Lestat. Someone told me that reading The Vampire Lestat would change my opinion of him but....nope, still don't like him. And how Louis was seen from Lestat's point of view.....didn't make sense to me but I'm not Anne Rice so, is what it is. I'm only two chapters in to Queen of the Damned, not sure if it's worth another four year push lol I started Monte Cristo on Tuesday and already on Chapter 8 so, I may be done with Rice's novels?

    One of my Sanderson-loving friends couldn't finish The Eye of the World because he thougth everything was going sooo slowly. In my reread I have to agree with him if you compare things with Stormlight Archive, for example (both of us had just read Oathbringer). But I think he eventually will come back. Or at least I hope XD

    Hope your brother can be convinced to start WoT n_n

    Wow, about Rice's books, I think we are just the opposite. I really liked Interview with the Vampire, but then I read The Vampire Lestat and I liked that even more. And by the second chapter I was totally invested in Lestat's point of view. But I agree with you in the part about Louis not making much sense. I guess that was the idea, everyone's the hero (or at least not the villain) from their own point of view. Also, I'm sure I didn't read book one with all the attention you must have put into it for using it for college. And then I think I just read some of Queen of the Damned chapters before feeling I didn't want to go on. But this was all a long time ago, so I don't remember the details. I was one of this teens that didn't understand leaving a book unread once you had started. But now I'm more selective with my time and I think that's good too.

    About Montecristo, you are helping me to want to read it sooner than later. My old coppy is jus sitting there, gathering dust on the shelve. Maybe after The Dragon Reborn.

  16. 21 hours ago, Harldin said:

    Mate i am a notaive Enghish spooker and proobably makeit more messtakex than you. ?

    Hahaha, well maybe my english will not be such a problem as my crappy computer and me not quite knowing how forums work ^_^u

  17. Thanks!

     

    Wow, it's been ages since I read Queen of the Damned. I think I just read the first two and a half books and then also got tired ^^u And Count of Monte Cristo is in my to do list for some time now. How are you liking it?


    I actually started rereading WoT because I've been years trying for this friend os mine to read them. And then she said she would if we did it together. But in the end she never even started and here I am, just finished book two.

  18. It just occurred to me that the name Robert Jordan could actually be an altered anagram for Dragon Reborn. Well, it would be "Drajon Rebort" but I think is close enough. Like what you would obtain if trying to make an anagram for Dragon Reborn that sounded actually like a real name.

    I know Robert Jordan picked the pseudonym years before the first WoT book got published and I thinkt he never actually said anything about any sort of anagram, but still it seems like a huge coincidence.

    Has anyone thought about this before? I've been searching the forums but I haven't found anything about this topic. But I'm new here, so maybe I don't know how to search properly ^_^u

    What do you think about it?

  19. Hello! I'm a long time fan currently re-reading so I thought to come here to be able to talk about WoT with other fans. I'm not a native english speaker, so apologies in advanced about my fairly possible mistakes in spelling, grammar and so on.

    n_n

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