Georgiana Podsnap's journal

I was a bit apprehensive about reading The Understudy by David Nicholls: it was an impulse buy, and only afterwards did I realise that the s...

I was counting on getting a blog post out of Coco , the latest Pixar film which I went to see at the cinema a couple of weeks back. But it...

I've now finished Pride and Prejudice , the second novel in my Jane Austen Rereading Project, and yes, I can see why it's a favourit...

Nope, I don’t get it. I’ve watched five episodes of the madly praised Mad Men without coming any closer to understanding what the fuss is ...

I'm now one book down in my Jane Austen Rereading Project, having finished Sense and Sensibility . At the beginning, I must admit I didn...

As a way of bolstering my pleasure in reading, I've started a Jane Austen Rereading Project. It's been a while since I've read m...

Most of the time, reading background articles about TV shows you're following is highly satisfying. However, there are exceptions. Befor...