The little white attic

For this list, I imposed on myself a few rules:  a) only name adaptations of novels I have read (e.g. I can’t name Little Women );  b) exclu...

Recently I’ve been watching the Zatoichi films. Have you heard of Zatoichi, the blind masseur/swordsman? The original series consists of 26 ...

I’m currently taking a break from the hellsite still known as Twitter, though I’m aware people have been arguing about this list . I don’t c...

A list of the 10 literary works I think about, or revisit, most often:  The Iliad  The Odyssey  King Lear  Othello  Shakespeare’s Sonnets  D...

I have seen 7 screen adaptations of Anna Karenina . That probably tells you I’m a bit mad. But as a lover of literature and cinema, I’m also...

I guess my interest in the Oscars waxes and wanes. Even now, I have seen only 2 of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture last year, and ha...

  Two Pride and Prejudice series are coming up: a Netflix straight adaptation (top) and The Other Bennet Sister by the BBC (bottom).  1/ I ...

Me wearing a Thai traditional dress.  Literature  In terms of reading, this has been a fantastic year. The main highlight was my discovery o...

From December 2024 to October 2025  In bold: films and plays I think are good  1/ Až přijde kocour (When the Cat Comes/ The Cassandra Cat - ...

On 6/4/2023, after reading  all of Shakespeare’s plays,  I created this blog post ranking the plays and characters. All the lists are now up...

There was a time when pretty much all I read was novels and short stories; the plays I knew were those assigned at school or university. The...

As I have been reading Judi Dench’s Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent (a very enjoyable read) and just updated my list of favourite Sh...