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On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:19 PM, william Eggers wrote:

> When I was young I read a book called East of the Sun and West of  
> the Moon.  I am no longer sure what is was about, but then I just  
> could not put it down.  My father had a set of books about the old  
> Squire.  It was about a farm family in Maine just after the Civil  
> War.  I also read all of Shakespeare when I was 9 and 10 because my  
> Father said they were filth and dirty books and would not let us  
> read them.  I had to find out about the filth and the dirty part, so  
> I read them all.  You can imagine my surprise when we had to read  
> them in school.  Dirty books is school.  How about that!

I'll look for that, too. One movie she likes very much was a recently  
remade version of "Midsummer's Night Dream", with people like Kevin  
Kline and Calista Flockheart, amongst others. We've watched that loads  
of time. I love that modern techniques can make classic material so  
much more accessible.