#Madly Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

[fantasticbookdragon]

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Mini reviews: Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries Hook, Line and Sinker by Tessa Bailey Set on You by Amy Lea Priest by Sierra Simone (more…) “”

[sevtlanasomerset]

I hate last nights, last shots, goodbyes. Casual as possible is all I can do - hard in the face of an outpouring of affection from the Russian crew. Makes me wish we were here longer and with more sensitive leaders.

Reading this sentence is very complicated and weird. Cause in some way, reading the whole diary is like a goodbye to Alan. It’s hard to admit. And “ I hate last nights, last shots, goodbyes,” too. When reading, it “ makes me wish we were here longer. ”

[cayde-docx]

Reading Madly, Deeply (Alan Rickman’s diaries) has made me realize how much I love reading other’s voice. It helps me as a writer to understand how people’s words flow not just in speech but in their own written language.

[alley-cat777]

Book Review: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

I hate it when my head, heart and aspirations are filled to the brim only with career. The rest of me hangs around like a jacket on the back of a doorknob. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by: Alan Rickman Initial Thoughts: Like the late actor Alan Rickman, I also write in a diary. Unlike Alan Rickman, I would never want my diaries to be bound into a book and published for public…

[lizabethstucker]

Madly, Deeply ~ the diaries of Alan Rickman

3.5 out of 5.

A selection of edited diary entries from 1993 through 2015, along with some from earlier years. Entries range from the personal (doctor appointments, dinners, films and plays attended) to the professional (interviews, theater and films, press junkets).

This honestly wasn't what I expected when I first put it on my reading list. I've always adored Rickman's work, limited as I was to film living in America. Like many, I first saw him in Die Hard and was captivated by the voice and the acting. I then followed his work as much as I could, even seeing that, frankly, atrocious Robin Hood film simply because he played the Sheriff of Nottingham. I was gutted upon hearing Alan Rickman left us so incredibly early.

I will warn those who are looking for Harry Potter references that, for the most part, they will be vastly disappointed. Ditto for those hoping for more in-depth commentary regarding his work. It's there, but sometimes with just a couple of words. I won't say that I didn't like this, but I sadly didn't love it. It is what most people write in their diaries just as reminders, not as entries expected to be shared with the world.

Would I recommend the book to others? Only if the reader goes in knowing what they will receive, a bare glimpse of the man. There are nuggets, particularly the personal ones as Rickman is brutally honest at times regarding his friends and acquaintances, but in quick entries. However the norm is simply a word or two, perhaps a partial line. If that will satisfy you, read on.

[dipandpiptit]

Reading Alan Rickman's review of Jurassic Park might be the best thing that happened to me this month

[mattsmanpain]

[snapeysister]

Yesyesyesyes!!!!!

Arrived, my book for the next days/weeks!!!!! 🥰

@alanrickmandaily @rickmandowneyjr

[marysgonnastudyoneday]

I’m not the one to be interested in strangers’ life, but at the end this book got me good.

[danbenzvi]

Off The Bookshelf: Alan Rickman - “Madly, Deeply: The Diaries Of Alan Rickman”

[qualitymoonsuit]

I just finished reading Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.

[sevtlanasomerset]

Maybe the wind will turn, but at the moment there is a gnawing feeling that this life offers only fleeting moments when it all comes together because the rest of it requires a fitter body and a more grown-up mind.

None of it helped by spending the day alone.

But the contrast to all the glitter of yesterday makes both seem aimless.

Grow up.

[emeraldfolk]

"Talk to Joanne Rowling again and she nervously lets me in on a few glimpses of Snape’s background. Talking to her is talking to someone who lives these stories, not invents them. She’s a channel – bubbling over with, “Well, when he was young, you see, this, that and the other happened” – never, “I wanted so & so …"

—Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

[venusinmyrrh]

Inspired by @queerpyracy’s recent post, here are the books on my TBR that I’m most excited to get to in 2025!

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. I'm a big fan of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and this story seems very similar to her work: romance in the face of a vampire threat in 1840s Mexico.

You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego. I love, love, love, a stylish mystery, and this one looks like a cross between Glass Onion and And Then There Were None.

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James. This split-timeline thriller looks like it'll scratch the same itch as Bad Times at the El Royale. Here's hoping the tone is less true-crime and more Stephen King.

Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire. I am not a Wicked novel girl but I have it on good authority (from @mordredsheart) that this interpretation of the Nutcracker is the Maguire I'll like best.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Besides having an absolute banger of a title, anything described as a mystery-thriller-cum-fairytale is something I need to read ASAP.

Repeat It Today With Tears by Anne Peile. Speaking of banger titles, this book seems specifically designed to make me crazier, and that's the energy I'm trying to carry into 2025.

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman. I'm here for the wisdom, the sense of connection to a fellow artist, and the HP hate in equal measure.

Ascension by S.T. Gibson. Rhys McGowan, relentlessly ambitious ceremonial magician extraordinaire, is my entire man, and I literally could not put Evocation (the first book in this series) down, so onto the list it goes.

Metamorphoses by Ovid. This classic has been taking up space on my bookshelf for years-- it's time to see if it earns its keep.

Honorable mentions go to:

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century edited by Jenny Minton Quigley. A collection of pieces on the impact and discourse generated by the famous novel in the last sixty years. I picked this up at random in a bookstore and was impressed by what I skimmed.

Other People’s Shoes: Thoughts on Acting by Harriet Walter. I loved her book Brutus and Other Heroines, so if my library ever gets around to acquiring a copy I am going to pounce on it.

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li. I have a weakness for art heists, what can I say.

Tagging @mordredsheart, @mariacallous, @forthegothicheroine, @bluestockingbaby, @lucacangettathisass, @briarlily, and @alintalzin, as well as anyone else with something to say. I wanna hear what you're into!

[severussnapeconfessions]

You know what severus would be really popular for if in another life he had a YouTube channel, he would make commentary videos about bad movies and it would be the funniest shit because he’s dead serious half the time lol

From Madly, Deeply - the Alan Rickman diaries

You don't have to go far to imagine what he would have sounded like!

[shy-fairy-levele3]

2023 Book List

Unbelievably I read a staggering 70 books in 2023! The most ever! My only disappointment is NOT finishing Dracula Daily, I came so close...

Wolf Brother Michelle Paver

Skin-Walker Michelle Paver

Be the Serpent Seanan McGuire  

She Who Became the Sun 

Soul-Eater Michelle Paver

Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir 

The Girl in Red Christina Henry

As yet Unsent Tamsyn Muir   

Outcast Michelle Paver  

Leonard Cohen: On a wire Philippe Girard

Oath Breaker Michelle Paver 

Ghost Hunter Michelle Paver   

 Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life Alan Cumming

M is for Magic Neil Gaiman

Silverwing Kenneth Opal 

Last Violent Call Chloe Gong

Malice: Malice Duology #1 Heather Walter  

Pandora Susan Stokes-Chapman

A Lady for a Duke Alexis Hall                                    

Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett  

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass Drew Hayden Taylor

Conventionally Yours Annabeth Albert  

The Unbalancing R.B Lemberg  

Stone Blind Natalie Haynes

The Winter Soldier: Cold Front Mackenzi Lee 

Ruby Nina Allan

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Theodora Goss

Husband Material Alexis Hall

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason India Holton  

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix Kalynn Bayron

The Monsters we Defy Leslye Penelope

Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix Aminah Mae Safi

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman Alan Rickman

Morgan Is My Name Sophie Keetch

Threads That Bind Kika Hatzopoulou

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Theodora Goss

Feeling Sorry for Celia Jaclyn Moriarty

Daughter of the Pirate King Tricia Levenseller

A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix C.B. Lee

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour Tee Franklin

Magic for Liars Sarah Gailey

The Story of Owen Emily Kate Johnston

The Brilliant Death A.R. Capetta

Circle of Magic: Sandy’s Book Tamora Pierce

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror Daniel M. Lavery  

Death's Detective- Malykant Mysteries #1-4 Charlotte E. English

The Salt Grows Heavy Cassandra Khaw

A Touch of Darkness- Hades & Persephone #1 Scarlett St. Clair

Mortal Follies Alexis Hall

Witch King Martha Wells

The London Séance Society Sarah Penner

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes

A Game of Fate- Hades Saga #1 Scarlett St. Clair

Immortal Longings Chloe Gong

Hooked Emily McIntire  

Foul Heart Huntsmen Chloe Gong

Signal to Noise Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Daughter of the Siren Queen Tricia Levenseller  

Starter Villain John Scalzi

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl Theodora Goss

Starling House Alix E. Harrow

A Marvellous Light: The Last Binding #1 Freya Marske   

A Restless Truth: The Last Binding #2 Freya Marske 

Thornhedge T. Kingfisher

What the River Knows Isabel Ibanez  

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Hadley Vlahos

Misrule: Malice Duology #2 Heather Walter

The Raven and The Reindeer T. Kingfisher

A Power Unbound: The Last Binding #3 Freya Marske

I started some series, and I finished some series. I found new favourite authors and revisited some old favourites. Please take them as recommendations, or if you have read any of the same books come talk about them with me!  

Reminder you can also follow me on The Storygraph to see what I am reading in real time, where I am simply shy_fairy   

Previous Years Reading lists can be found here: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015