Amiable heart

She understood him. He could not forgive her, - but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not comtemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

Excerto do livro Persuasion de Jane Austen

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Nursing

(...) Nursing does not belong to a man, it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property, her own feelings generally make it so.

(Excerto do livro Persuasion de Jane Austen)

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All Jane Austen All the time: Persuasion (Opinião + adaptação)

Captain Wentworth is 'a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining influence' 

and Anne Elliot had been persuaded to break off her engagement with him. He returns, eight years later, as a strikingly successful naval officer. It is up to Anne, the motherless daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, 'a foolish, spendthrift baronet' obsessed with his social standing, to find ways of breaking through petty snobberies, prejudices, and ideals of decorum which banned all open expression of female desire.

Jane Austen's last novel has a vivid new sense of how easily love can be crushed by convention. Yet her razor-sharp irony utterly destroys the pretensions of Bath's 'high society', making Persuasion both an enchanting romance and a masterpiece of high comedy.

Porque estou a precisar de relaxar...

Leituras de Julho: All Jane Austen, All the time

Este é mais um post atrasado (ou não estivéssemos a mais de meio de Agosto).

Quando iniciei o mês de Julho já tinha em mente dedicá-lo à escrita de Jane Austen. Seria o mês All Jame Austen, All the time - um mês onde leria uma obra da escritora, um graphic novel de um dos seus livros e um livro baseado nos seus romances. 

Porém, estas foram as minhas leituras de Julho:

Cecelia Ahern

Não sou do tipo de leitor que compra um livro pela capa. Não sou corajosa a esse ponto. MAS tenho de confessar que fiquei tentada a descobrir a escrita de Cecelia Ahern, após ver algumas das capas dos seus livros (ainda que sejam capas estrangeiras). Basta olhar para elas e sinto a minha imaginação a voar:

São lindas! E vocês, o que acham? Já leram algum destes livros?

Love so life #1, #2, #3 e #4 (Opinião)

Shiharu is a high school student who loves kids, lives in an orphanage, and works at a daycare... Until the handsome uncle of two-year-old twins offers her a raise if she'll be their babysitter. Often relying on memories of her mother's actions for guidance, Shiharu quickly finds herself falling in love with her new makeshift family.

Bokura wa minna kawaisou (Opinião)

Usa, a high-school student aspiring to begin a bachelor lifestyle, moves into a new apartment only to discover that he not only shares a room with a perverted roommate that has an obsession for underaged girls, but also that another girl, Ritsu, a love-at-first-sight, is living in the same building as well!

Preguiça a quanto complicas!

Todos os dias (desde que começou Agosto, vá!) tenho dito a mim mesma:

Mas o que realmente acontece é:

Por isso peço desculpas mais uma vez. O problema é que ultimamente não tenho conseguido manter a energia que tinha antes para ler. Sinto que estou um bocado lenta e a inspiração para escrever as minhas opiniões anda muito fraca (para não dizer nula!). Resultado: ausência no blog. 

Mas de futuro espero conseguir alterar isso (onde é que eu já ouvi isto?)

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