Reading Rambo

I started listening to this and then I thought 'Who am I to keep this from the Good People of the Internet?' So here's your Friday '80s youtube vid.





IT'S ALL IMAGES OF LIGHTNING AND RAIN. Someone put that together. Because when that person hears songs, they take them literally. And bless them for it. 
Your bookish topic for today is: 19th c. Lady Authors if They Lived Today and Were Teenage Girls. What Would They Listen to on Spotify?
I have a very old journal entry that states quite clearly that Charlotte Bronte would get very into Whitney Houston, so even IF, on further reflection, that doesn't totally make sense to me, I have to stick with it.
George Eliot would be into intelligent, weird shit. And since my playlists are variations on Celine Dion, Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson (...you think I kid, but I do not), I can't name any of that. She'd like The Decemberists, but they're a bit too mainstream, y'know? OH. And she'd totally listen to…

It's after 1 in the morning. People cleverer than I am have decided to take advantage of Daylight Savings Time by getting extra sleep. I, of course, have decided to use it to dance to the Back to the Future soundtrack.


Ok, guys. Prepare to have your face rocked off by my list for the Back to the Classics Challenge of 2012.
Any 19th Century Classic Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of '80, Dickens
Any 20th Century Classic The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
Reread a classic of your choice Emma, Austen
A Classic Play A Doll's House, Ibsen
Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Classic Romance The Reef, Wharton
A Classic translated from its original language to your native language The Divine Comedy, Dante
Classic Award Winner A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Classic set in a country you (realistically speaking) will not visit during your lifetime Pavilion of Women, Pearl S. Buck (China)

For some reason, Tuesday feels rough this week. But I guarantee this will make you feel better (unless you're a heartless monster):



Every time I hear this song, I grin like an idiot and sway while lip synching, for only I and the dulcet strains of celestial music from the ever-acclaimed (by me) film Mannequin exist. Yeah, I'm at work, but they can deal.
The Night Circus finally came in at the library, and I read the introduction expecting, I dunno, whirling sparklers to leap out of the pages and do a dance, because OMG people love this book and that's obviously the only explanation I could think of. The first few pages are interesting, and I'm expecting it to get better. SO HIGH MY EXPECTATIONS ARE. We shall see how it goes.
Let's do a new thing called What Did Alice Add to Her To-Read Pile This Week?
The Discovery of France, Graham Robb - I saw a real-person review (shh, it's a thing) of this and it looked good. Plus despite French lit being half my major, I know …