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Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.

I hope today is filled with yummy food, good company, laughter, and lots of love.

I finished Jane Eyre the other night, and highly recommend it for any gothic/ romantic era fans.
I had to read Jane Eyre for school, and at first was dreading the read because of how big the book was and how small the font was, yes in the past I have read books longer and with the same font size, etc. but I chose to read them for pleasure, not because I had to. But my dread soon turned into interest of what was going to happen next, and that interest made me unable to put the book down for hours on end, and that interest turnd into love when I finished the book.
I cannot wait to re-read Jane Eyre, is that bad to say? But I will wait till I am living in my own gothic style mansion, sadly, I probably will never live in such a place, so I will settle for an apartment or a house.

"Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master's colourless, olive face, square massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth,-all energy, decision, will, -were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me: they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me,-that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him: the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me" (Bronte, Jane Eyre).

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
Virginia Woolf

I finally broke down and bought a moleskin today. I have wanted one for the longest time now, but always had journal on the go and couldn't bring myself to buying another journal. Well, I do have a journal on the go, but this is not a journal moleskin it is going to stay in my purse for my notes, to-do lists, ideas, etc. I am so excited and cannot wait to fill the pages with wonderfulness.

PS. Does anyone watch Bored to Death? I know the first season is over, but I believe HBO is replaying it. Well, Jonathan Ames, the lead character, who is a writer/private detective, carry's around a moleskin. If you haven't heard of it, I highly recommend you google it and watch it. It is my favourite t.v. show, and Jason Schwartzman is so oddly cute in it. You all must watch it!

WOW.
Thank you for your excitement in my Christmas post.
I am excited to make every one of you a hand-made Christmas card .
Everyone who's comments are visible will get a card, minus this lovely lady who will be gallivanting around Europe with her family for the holidays (lucky bum).
Please email me at little_angel203@hotmail.com with your mailing address and in the middle of December look for a card in the post from me.

In other news, Janice, from jforjanice gave me this lovely blog award,

The task is to list 7 things you are loving!

So, I am loving: sunny days, sleeping in, the smell of cinnamon, jane eyre (reading it right now, and yes, am loving it), chai lattes, thinking of Christmas decorating ideas, and, chats with my sister.

I tag these lovely bloggers for the One Lovely Blog award:
Dawn Melissa Bambola Aimee Mandy Sara Karen and one more, just because, pinkapplecore

Even though Christmas is 38 days away, does not mean that I cannot think about it.

The Christmas season is my favourite time of the year - I am sure it is yours as well.

And because I am already in the Christmas mood, and want to start making my cards, wrapping presents, and decorating, I thought that I should make my blog friends, aka, you, a Christmas card as well. So, the first 10 people to comment on this post will receive a lovely festive hand-made Christmas card in your mailbox from, yours truly. :)

So, what are your Christmas plans, traditions and gift ideas that you are looking forward to this year?

Book Recommendations

I need some book recommendations for my Christmas list.

My list includes, thus far:

Her Fearful Symmetrey, by Audrey Niffenengger

The Girl whoPlayed with Fire, by Stieg Larsson

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safron Foer

A Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt

I asked boyfriend for the first two books, and the last two I just added. I would love to hear any of your book recommendations that I should read/would love.

I love when a good book can captivate me, and I don't want to put it down.

Back to studying astrononmy.

Good night mes amis!!!

love

tell me you love me,

whisper it in my ear,

write it in the air,

do things you wouldn't dare

i need to hear those words,

i long to breathe it in,

i crave it,

i want to feel it,

i need to feel you.

you all around me,

enveloping me,

devouring me,

loving me.

Monthly Update

Feeling: In love

Loving: The smell of fall

Reading: Jane Eyre
Wanting: My essay to be finished
Dreaming: Of a place we can call home
Having: Lunch soon?
Waiting: For Christmas

What about you?

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A Little Princess

A Little Princess was on of my all-time favourite movies growing up. The movie was kept at my grandparents house, so every month when I would visit, I would watch the movie, sometimes more than once and fall in love with it over and over again. A Little Princess was pure magic.

"You know, dolls make the very best friends. Just because they can't speak doesn't mean they don't listen. And did you know that when we leave them alone in our room, they come to life?"

"They do?"

"Yes! But before we walk in and catch them, they return to their place as quick as lightning!"

"Why don't they come to life in front of us so we can see them?"

"Because it's magic. Magic has to be believed. It's the only way it's real."

What was your favourite movie growing up?

Friday night, I was listening to the radio in my car, and they were talking about Halloween costumes for females, and if a guy will be able to "get with the girl" by the costume she will be wearing. I was pretty disgusted with the conversation, but continued to listen.
It went as follows:
If she is dressed as nurse, cop, baby, etc. you most likely will be able to have a one-night stand with her.
If she is dressed as a fairy-tale princess, she is probably looking for her prince. A one-night stand is probably not on her mind, but if you are dressed as a prince, you might get a chance.
If she is dressed as a character from a novel, she is clever and witty, but be careful because she could be self-centred and may act like she is better than other people.

The last on really really irked me.
How does being clever, witty etc. make a female self-centred.
Maybe she is not wearing a scantily clad outfit is because she has more confidence in herself, and does not want to be perceived as a 'slut' but for a girl who knows what she wants? Maybe, just maybe?

Just a thought.

My one advice in life,

document it!

Book Teaser

TEASER TUESDAYS, (a day late) (hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading) asks you to:

Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Please avoid spoilers!

'They were saying good night...I thought how marvellous are lovers' parting. A man will linger as if snatching an hour from death as he whispers with the tragic expression of an explorer starting off into the unknown: "I'll see you again to-morrow dearest' (23).
The Spell of London
H.V. Morton

I hope you don't fall too in love with the quote and want to read the book because I don't know if it is widely available? I bought this little gem at my town's library sale. I love old hard-cover books, and this one caught my eye. I read the first paragraph and instantly fell in love, and decided that this was worth the $1 price tag it bared.
So, because you probably cannot buy it anywhere else, I will quote the first paragraph that intrigued me.
(Please forgive me for breaking the rules, but I am bestowing on you two teasers today.)

'Can you analyse a spell? How it is possible to capture in words a thing elusive as a dream that flies between sleeping and waking?
I suppose that every man and woman in this world who has suffered the wonder of being loved has at some time asked:
"But why do you love me?"
The unsatisfying, conclusive answer never varies.
"Because you are You!" ' (1)

Enjoy.

PS. I wouldn't mind hearing a teaser from your latest read.

Book of the Week

Ali Smith - Girl Meets Boy

A couple posts prior, my book teaser was on this short novel. I received a couple comments by some of you in regards to wanting to know how I enjoyed it. Well, I loved it.

This is a short novel of 160 pages, that one could easily finish in a night.
I would recommend reading it by candle-light, wrapped in a blanket, sitting by a window, and outside snow is gently dancing downwards, and the candle-light is flickering and your cat is curled up around your feet, and you feel warm and cozy inside and out.

Girl Meets Boy is about relationships. Relationships with yourself, friends, family, lovers and co-workers. The book is broken up in five chapters: i, you, us, them, all together now. The novel is about two sisters; Imogen and Anthea, who deal with their sexuality, their love-life, and who they are as a person in a lonely world.

This novel is the twentieth-century version of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis.
(Ovid, was a Roman poet, who wrote about love, seduction and mythological transformation.) Ovid's most joyful metamorphis is as follows:
Iphis who was the daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus. Ligdus had threatened to kill Telethusa if the child she was bearing wasn't a boy. Telethusa despairs, but is visited in the middle of the night by the Egyptian goddess Isis , attended by Anubis and Apis, who assures her that all will be well. When Telethusa gives birth to Iphis, she conceals her daughter's sex from her husband and raises her daughter as a boy. Iphis falls in love with another girl, Ianthe. Iphis is deeply in love and prays to Juno to allow her to marry her beloved. When nothing happens, her mother Telethusa brings her to the temple of Isis and prays to the goddess to help her daughter. Isis responds by transforming Iphis into a man. The male Iphis marries Ianthe and the two live happily ever after.

Girl Meets Boy is a wonderful tale of love, and is even more wonderful to read. Smith's writing is pure poetry, the words dance off the pages before your eyes.

"It begins one day when I...turn around and see the most beautiful person I've ever seen. From that moment on, I'm home. It's as if I've been struggling upstream, going against the grain, until that moment"(Smith, 85).

“And suppose I never met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft
Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall”
-Regina Spektor

Happy Monday

Imagination: "the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful"(canadian oxford dictionary).

Life is too short to not use your imagination, no matter what age you are!

xoali

Book Teaser

I saw this on Aimee's blog and thought it was a great idea.

Enjoy the little teaser.

"I'd be happy, myself, I thought as I sat in the wet grass with my hands in the warmth still inside of my shoe, just to know that the world was a berry in the beak of a bird, or was nothing more than a slab of sloped grassy turf like this, fished out of cosmic nothingness one beautiful spring morning by some meaningless creature or other."

Girl meets Boy, by Ali Smith

Thank you everyone for your kind words.
I wish I could hug all of you! :)
Each day gets better.