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Book Review: Persuasion

Persuasion by Jane Austen

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I wish I had the writing skills to give a proper review of this book, but I don't. So here are my awkward and cheesy thoughts:
I loved this one! It was refreshing to read a love story where they had already met and fell in love previously and it didn't work out. This is the story of what happens 8 years later when fate puts them together again. Even though they both thought all hope was lost, time and space didn't lessen their love for each other. Everyone can have a happy ending!
My favorite quotes:
Captain Wentworth:
"A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not."

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."

Anne Elliot:
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!"



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Frustrating day

I know that I shouldn't let things bother me that I have little or no control over. I give this advice to others ALL the time. I tell myself this ALL the time. So why why do I let some of these things bother me so much? And the real question is, what can I do to just let it go? What's totally insane is when things have to do with my kids. Are they at fault? Probably. BUT they are kids-I can't blame them. I just wish I knew how to not let some things really bother me and ruin my day.

I thought venting about it would help. But it really isn't.

Well, tomorrow's another day, right?

Random thoughts

1. I read "The Wedding" by Nicholas Sparks. eh. 2 stars. I'm currently reading "Persuasian" by Jane Austen and it's good. But I think I like "Pride and Prejudice" better. We'll see if I feel the same when I'm done reading "Persuasion". I am only so interested as to which book is better because I've heard from more than 3 people that "Persuasion" is their favorite Jane Austen book.

2. Jonah's tonsils are still huge. He still hasn't seen the Ear, Nose, and throat Doctor (still one more week-ridiculous, no?) About 2 weeks ago they got even worse then before and were totally filling up his throat and covered in disguising pustules. He had a fever that hovered around 103 for 5 days and he wouldn't eat anything. The doctor finally gave him an oral steroid which helped shrink them down a bit (back to the previous large size) At least he's finally eating again.
However his and Oliver's ear infection STILL haven't cleared up, so it looks like they will both be getting tubes in their ears in addition to Jonah's tonsils being removed.

3. Jerry left on Sunday for the entire month of April, so that's pretty lame. However, compared to last summer (he was gone for 4 months and Oliver was only 5 months old when he left) I think it's going to be a breeze. Especially since my MOM is coming to visit me for 2 weeks!! I am so excited! I haven't seen her for 9 months.

4. Less than 4 weeks to my half marathon!! Oh, and we did change the race from a boring old one in Columbia to the Country Music Half Marathon in Nashville!!!

Sorry this post is so boring and my blog has become so boring. I will focus on making it awesome again, mmmm K? Any idea's?

Book Review: Georgia Bottoms

Summary:
Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle.

Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers-one for each day of the week, with Mondays off-none of whom knows about the others.

But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays) decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation, Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him.

My Thoughts: 2/5 stars
This book started out really promising. It was funny and the premise was good. I was laughing right away and was really looking forward to where it was going. But then suddenly in the course of 2 pages, 4 years passed and the momentum of the story really died. It really should have been a story that all happened over the course of only a couple of months.

The ending was also very anti-climatic. Just when I thought the story was getting good again and picking up the pace, it just ends over like one page. It was funny though, but when it was over, I just felt disappointed.