Tale of Despereaux

Finished this yesterday, and had serious reservations, as I said in my journal entry. I'd really like to hear other people's reactions to it, but not sure I'll manage even to get my daughter to read it - she nearly gagged on the first couple of pages. I liked it more than that, but not as much as I'd expected.

It's just to be expected, I guess - had such high expectations for this and was disappointed, and had no expectations really for The Mary-Sue Extrusion, and ended up really liking it a lot.

Meanwhile the girls have just finished watching Freaky Friday, a film which everyone expected to be pretty awful and it was really cute! Guess we'll all just have to reverse expectations before reading or watching anything. On which note I am expecting terrible things from Time to Depart (Lindsey Davis) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which I see tomorrow)!

Any Falco fans might want to check out Lindsey Davis' website, really fun.

Trying again...

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Only black...

Actually, thanks to generalblossom's comment, I figured out that it's (rather ugly) green in Internet Explorer, and black in Camino. Now I want to see if I can get a pretty blue or something...

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