Estamos prestes a cortar mais uma fatia do tempo. Feliz Ano Novo!

“Quem teve a ideia de cortar o tempo em fatias,
a que se deu o nome de ano,
foi um indivíduo genial.
Industrializou a esperança, fazendo-a funcionar no limite da exaustão.

Doze meses dão para qualquer ser humano se cansar e entregar os pontos.
Aí entra o milagre da renovação e tudo começa outra vez, com outro número e outra vontade de acreditar que daqui para diante vai ser diferente.”




 

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Uma leitora natalícia / A Christmas reader

Jon Paul

O melhor brinquedo é um livro / A book is the the best toy

 

Mark Lancelot Symons (1887 – 1935)

Fotografia vintage de duas jovens leitoras / Vintage photo of two young ladies with book

 

Alfred Cheney Johnston, c.1920

É trabalho ou é lazer? / Is it work or play?

“But what is work and what is not work?  Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles?  All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody.  There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them."

 

George Orwell

A livraria / The book shop

 

 Francis Donkin Bedford (1864 – 1954)

10 citações literárias sobre o Natal / 10 literary quotes about Christmas

One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

Salman Rushdie, Fury

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life.

Nick Hornby, About a Boy

I don’t want Christmas season to end, because it’s the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Eloisa James, Paris in Love

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.

Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

A leitura em 5 pinturas / The act of reading in 5 paintings

Sherree Valentine Daines

12 leitoras / 12 women reading

 

Assim é que se está bem, embrulhada numa manta a ler sentada junto à lareira...

David P. Hettinger

"O Conto de Natal" disponível para download gratuíto / Download free "A Christmas Carol"

O grande clássico de Natal de Charles Dickens está disponível, na sua versão em inglês, para download gratuíto AQUI. Para ler só tem de ter instalada a aplicação do Kindle no seu PC ou dispositivo móvel. Quem não se lembra do sovina Scrooge e dos três fantasmas de Natal?!

 

Quando deve desistir de ler um livro? / When to give up on a book you’re reading

De Book Lust de Nancy Pearl, a Regra das 50 páginas pode influenciar as suas leituras:

"Nobody is going to get any points in heaven by slogging their way through a book they aren’t enjoying but think they ought to read. I live by what I call ‘the rule of fifty,’ which acknowledges that time is short and the world of books is immense. If you’re fifty years old or younger, give every book about fifty pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you’re over fifty, which is when time gets even shorter, subtract your age from 100. The result is the number of pages you should read before deciding".

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), o heroí do fim do apartheid

Fernando Vicente

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) libertou uma nação à custa da sua própria liberdade. A África do Sul, tem muito que agradecer a Mandela. E nós também: afinal o apartheid era uma vergonha global.

Pai Natal ou Menino Jesus: o Juiz decide

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Com frio? Compra um livro! / Cold? Buy a book!

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Uma rapariga que lê / "A girl who reads"

Muito bom!