Model Citizen

I completeley came across this by chance, it was one of those "Amazon Recommends" titles. It has excellent reviews but was a mini series noone I've come across actually saw.

It's a strange mix of Pride & Prejudice meets Life On Mars. Set over 4 episodes, it sees Amanda Price, a big Jane Austen fan, discovering one lousy evening, after her boyfriend has ruined her evening in, even trying to propose with a ring pull from his beer can, that the fictional character Elizabeth Bennet is in her bathroom.
After a short while we discover that there is a door in the bathroom that corresponds to a door in Elizabeths house that is a portal between these two unlikely worlds. Of course, Elizabeth and Amanda swap places.
Even though Amanda knows the world of P&P inside out, knows the villians from the goodies, her attempts to 'help' things along keep making matters worse.

I've leant the DVD out to a few people, and the result was exactly what I found in my house. I planned to let the girls watch it over 2 evenings (it's 3 hrs), but it seems tht once you start it just can't be stopped. It's that likeable, fun and enthralling you really have to just keep watching to see how it all pans out.

Top rated entertainment at a very cheap price.

I was looking in a library, a little bit bored, waiting for the rest of the family to choose their books. There was a section of Graphic Novels, and I was having a peek when I found this old hardback book and thought someone had put it back in the wrong section. Anyway, I had a little glimpse inside and was very surprised to find it was a comic, albeit disguised as a normal hardback book.
So I took note of the author, Linda Medley, and ordered it on Amazon.

I started this last week after attempting Love & Rockets book 14. Love and Rockets was one of my favourite books...was. I've just got more fed up over the years with the increasing swearing and sex which seems to more often than not try and cover the fact that the story is going hardly nowhere. It's definatley more miss than hit as the years and books have gone by...anyway, I did'nt even finish it I was so fed up with it.

So I picked up Castle Waiting and was surprised that it was a pretty straightforward fairy tale about Sleeping Beauty, allbeit told in a slightly different way, but she falls asleep for 100 years and is awakened by her Prince Charming, and that is where any similarity to a normal fairy tale stops. The princess leaves with her Prince. "I'll write" she promises, but the castle is left (waiting) for Royalty to come again.
That is only the prologue.

It was a completley refreshing story reading about decent people treating each other well, caring for each other, being genuine friends, even if, the resident Knight is a horse, the Castle overseer is a Stork, the resident holy Sister is a bearded lady etc etc.

I read somewhere (the intro I think) that it's not a story about Good vs Evil, but about being a hero in your own way. I dont know if that's how I'd sum it up, I think it's a story about friendship and how precious that is.

If I had to leave a score, it's full marks. The 500+ pages flew by and now I need to see if there's any other books by Linda Medley.