Georgiana Podsnap's journal

I don't know why I'm quite so dissatisfied with the second series of Victoria  as I am, given that it's one of the few programme...

It is time to speak of Emma - not Swan this time, but Woodhouse. I recently finished rereading Jane Austen's Emma , and found to my sati...

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...