27

I'm 27 today!

Hope

"I remained on the ladder, looking at the figurine in my hand. You're wrong, Aunt Josie,
I thought. It's not pride I'm feeling. It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are
immediate, violent, and hot. This one sites inside you quietly and eats you from the inside out
like the trichina worms the pigs get. It's the Eighth Deadly Sin. The one God left out.

Hope."
~A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Until I read this passage, I thought I'd dealt with this...

New photos

Just uploaded photos from Spain, the Isle of Wight, and Imber:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chloelt/

I need to have a good clear out of my flickr site 'cause I've run out of room, so I'll be deleting a bunch of photos in the near future. A lot of the Spain ones will probably go because most of them aren't that great, so if you want to have a look at my holiday pics, do it soon!

Mansfield Park- Finis

The absolute best thing about a Jane Austen novel is that the truly deserving characters always live happily ever after. Give me happily ever after any day. =)

Mansfield Park

Who would have thought that Jane Austen could be so captivating, that one could be so glued to novels in which little more happens than people falling in love, or not falling in love, arrogant men offering unwelcome proposals, silly sisters embarrassing their family, and irksome aunts and mothers meddling in others' business? But gripping it is- how can I now leave these pages and go to bed with poor, sweet Fanny Price in such an agitated state!? But alas! to bed I must, as there are yet a few hours of reading left in her story...