Agosto - 2010

Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare.

(Infernal Devices 1).

Prequel to Mortal Instruments, a história acontece no mesmo mundo, mas 150 anos antes.

PS 1: E as capas? Os livros em capa dura são lindos.

PS 2: Charles Dickens está em todas. Ele aparece em 9 de 10 livros que leio (um chute, claro, pque não contei...).

PS 3: As citações estão grandes, mas adoro bookworm characters...

PS 4: link para o livro traduzido, enquanto não sai no Brasil - http://pt.scribd.com/doc/38194012/Clockwork-Angel-Trad.

“One must Always be careful of books”, said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

“I’m not sure a book has ever changed me”, said will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep---“

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry”, said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.

“Of course, why one would want to be an entire flock of sheep is another matter entirely,” Will finished. “ Is there something you want to read here, Miss Gray, or is there not? Name it, and I shall attempt to free it from its prison for you.”

“Do you think the library has The Wide, Wide WorldI? Or Little Women?”

“Never heard of either of them,” said Will. “We haven’t many novels.”

“Well, I want novels”, said Tessa. “Or poetry. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.”

Will’s eyes glittered. “I think we may have a copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland about somewhere.”

Tessa wrinkled her nose. “ Oh, that’s for little children, isn’t it?” she said. “I never liked it much – seemed like so much nonsense.”

Will’s eyes were very blue. “There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”

But Tessa had already spied a familiar volume on a shelf and went over to greet it like an old friend. “Oliver Twist!” she cried. “Have you any other of Mr. Dicken’s novels?” She clasped her hands together. “Oh! Do you have A Tale of Two Cities?”

“That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculous.” Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. “No, here you’ll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone’s else’s head if you need to; much more useful.”

“I don’t!” Tessa protested. “Need to chop off anyone’s head, that is. And what’s the point of a lot of books no one actually wants to read? Haven’t you really any other novels?” (pp. 87/88).

“You’ll never understand us from reading a book, Will had said, but that wasn’t the point really. He didn’t know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning, that this one acknowledged that she existed and that there were others like her in the world. Holding it in her hands made Tessa feel that everything that had happened to her in the past six weeks was real – more real even than living through it had been.” (p. 98).

The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare.

(City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass).

Não resisti e li de novo!!!

"If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood." (Jace, claro. P. 232).

"All knowledge hurts." (p.233).

"If you insist on disawowing that which is ugly about what you do", said Magnus, still looking at Alec, " You will never learn from your mistakes." (p. 235).

"Why mundanes always insist on taking responsability for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didnt force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." (p. 241).

"Clary wondered if there was any ugly vampires, maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to  live forever." (p. 273).

Filmes - só para crianças...

Shrek para sempre (Shrek Forever After). Mike Mitchel, US, 2010.

Meu malvado favorito (Despicable Me). Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, US, 2010. AMO AMO AMO. O filme de animação de que mais gostei em 2010, mesmo com Toy Story 3.

O Último Mestre do Ar (The Last Airbender). M. Night Shyamalan, US, 2010. Viuxe, boooooooooring. Saímos no meio. 

The Karate Kid. Harald Zwart, US/China, 2010.

Nanny McPhee e as Lições Mágicas (Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang). Susanna White, UK, França/US, 2010.