I Want To Breathe

I want to breathe you in I’m not talking about perfume or even the sweet odour of your skin But of the air itself I want to share your air inhaling what you exhale I’d like to be that close Two of us breathing each other as one as that. ~ James Laughlin

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The Falling of the Leaves

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves. The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us part, ere the [...]

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Eclipse (Book Three: The Twilight Saga)

The story: The third installment of Meyer’s vampire-romance series finds “heroine” Bella Swan anxious to become a vampire and live forever with handsome vampire Edward. Obstacles arise when Edward demands marriage and werewolf Jacob declares his love for Bella. Don’t forget the fact that Bella’s life is in danger…again. Opinion: I’m not sure that this [...]

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Accidentally Dead

The story: Nina always loved the nightlife, she just never expected to be the nightlife. It’s a lousy first day on the job for Nina Blackman when a patient, loopy from the anesthesia, bites her. At least he was cute. But for real drama she can’t beat the next evening. Nina wakes up with a [...]

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By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept

Story: She is a modern young woman who has learned to control her feelings and look upon life in a rational way. He is a man who can do wonders and that has sought himself into the world of religion and become one charismatic spiritual conductor. Opinion: This is one of my favorite Paulo Coelho [...]

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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: A Novel

Story: It’s 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? [...]

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If You Forget Me

I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that [...]

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Mansfield Park

I’ve seen the previous adaption of this novel and in comparison this version is the better one.  The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom Bertram, Edmund Bertram, Maria Bertram and Julia, but is always [...]

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