#logan mountstuart

[olivelune]

This is probably gonna get lost in the tags but let's see what happens because I'm intrigued...

This is just a bit of fun and like I say it'll probably go unnoticed, but let's see how it goes...

[mzannthropy]

So I decided since I have been reminded of it, I should stop fucking around and get on with the unwatched works from Sam Claflin's filmography. I've gone with Any Human Heart, a 4-episode series chronicling the life of a writer Logan Mountstuart. Sam plays the youngest version of Logan, beginning with his days at Oxford University in the 1920s, where he is very obsessed about losing his virginity. I had no idea he would get so, ehm, explicit so early in his career, lol.

So far I've only watched this first episode; Sam won't appear in any more, in fact he is only in it for about half the episode, when he is replaced by Matthew McFadyen. It was still a delight to watch anyway, the story is quite good and also funny! It's told in flashback, old Logan (Jim Broadbent) reminiscing about his life.

I thought Sam's eyes didn't look right, then I remembered I read that he had blue contacts for this role, bc the character has blue eyes. Sam's eyes are more green.

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Any Human Heart (2010)

Episode 2

[olivelune]

Ahoy, sailor! ⚓️

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[treasuredthings]

Moodboard: Freya x Logan

“It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.” 

[matthewmacfadyencaps]

[gentlemenostyle-blog]

Gentleman of Style #50: Logan Mountstuart (Matthew Macfadyen), Any Human Heart, 2010.

[jacksonsdeadpig]

Me when Logan Mountstuart sleeps with someone else who isn’t his wife in Any Human Heart:

[bermudianabroad]

What are you top ten (it doesn’t have to be in a specific order) books? Do you have a good reads account? I’ve been kind of reading through my bookshelf.

oooooh girl, you have no idea what kind of trouble this question leads to....

It’s impossible to answer. I managed to make a list of about 40 favourites, but I don’t think I can slim it to just 10.

Instead I managed to make a list of 10 Books to Read to Get You Out of a Reading Slump. More or less. At least these are the ones I fall back on to get me out of a reading slump, and here they are:

10 Books to Get You Out of a Reading Slump

Silk by Alessandro Baricco: super short, lovely kind of hypnotic fairy tale writing. Flits between France and Japan in the 1800s and can easily be read in under two hours. A little bittersweet sorbet.

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter: sexy short story fairytales. A bit gothic and dark, kind of sassy, often funny.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh: chronicle of a fading aristocratic family in the interwar years and beyond. Writing like a boozey riverside picnic in late summer light. Witty Oxford eccentrics, oodles of Catholic guilt, grand country houses and heartbreak.

Lavinia by Ursula K. La Guin: something for the Roman mythology nerds. The lead up to the founding of Rome from the point of view of a bit character in Virgil’s Aeneid. Mysticism and lots of time spent wandering about the woods.

Delicate, Edible Birds by Lauren Groff: a collection of short stories that are hard to categorise. Some horror? Some magical realism? Some romance?

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson: some non-fiction about obsession, the art of fly-fishing, taxidermy and a little known muesum heist.

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa: Math! Baseball! Loss of short term memory! A strange story set in 1990s Tokyo about a friendship wthat blossoms between a retired professor with a debilitating memory problem and his maid. Gentle and heartwarming without being super twee and sugary.

Any Human Heart by William Boyd: just one of those books that has stayed with me and I feel compelled to re-read every few years. The diaries of Logan Mountstuart chronicling his efforts to make sense of his life, his meetings with some famous movers and shakers of the 20th Century, his brief triumphs and very many mistakes. One of those characters that seem to worm their way into your heart no matter how flawed they are.

A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo: a girl arrives in London from China to improve her English, falls in love and as her language skills improve, she begins to discover more about herself and what she wants from life. A meditative read.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: for something kind of long and slow burning to get lost in.

And yes! I have a Goodreads: it is HERE

Hope this provides some inspiration for flagging imaginations :)

[hope4better]

I love this series so much 💗

“I’ll not be your kept woman, Logan,” she said sternly. How I’ll miss her.

[mzannthropy]

Matthew McFadyen, Jim Broadbent and Sam Claflin as Logan Mountstuart (at various ages) in Any Human Heart.

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Any Human Heart (2010)

Episode 2

[frimleyblogger]

Book Corner – January 2019 (2)

Book Corner – January 2019 (2)

Any Human Heart – William Boyd

How well do we really know someone? Henry James opined “never say you know the last word about any human heart” and as well as giving Boyd the title for this 2002 novel, he may well be right. The construct of Boyd’s novel is that it is a compilation of diaries or, as the French more elegantly put it, journaux intimes, detailing the life and times of the…

[olivelune]

He's definitely a "*** ***" 🤭

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[willowandthatch]

(via Review: Any Human Heart (PBS))  A review of the MASTERPIECE | PBS series "Any Human Heart." The series stars Sam Claflin, Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Broadbent as Logan Mountstuart, and is set against the backdrop of the defining events of the 20th century.