The Redesigned Ranch de Liz Isaacson

 Leitura agradável sobre recomeços, crises de ansiedade com ataques de pânico na sua versão masculina e feminina, refazer a vida noutro local, conhecer pessoas mesmo que não queira.

Sinopse:

The ranch foreman, the fiery new designer he hires, and an old flame that could burn them both...

Jace Lovell only has one thing left after his fiancée abandons him at the altar: his job at Horseshoe Home Ranch. He throws himself into becoming the best foreman the ranch has ever had—and that includes hiring an interior designer to make the ranch owner's wife happy.

Belle Edmunds is back in Gold Valley after she lost her job at a prestigious design firm in California. She's working for a conglomerate, but she's desperate to build a portfolio that she can use to start her own firm in Montana. She applies for the job at Horseshoe Home, and though Jace and Belle grew up together, they've never seen eye to eye on much more than the sky is blue.

The spark between them now that they're adults can't be denied, and as Jace and Belle attempt to work together, they also fight their growing attraction to each other. But Jace isn't anywhere near forgiving his fiancée, and he's not sure he's ready for a new relationship with someone as fiery and beautiful as Belle. Can she employ her patience while he figures out how to forgive so they can find their own brand of happily-ever-after?

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Os da minha rua de Ondjaki

 Leitura agradável e com uma diferente forma de escrever prosa. Relatos dispersos em capitulos que funcionam um pouco como as fases do desenvolvimento humano de uma criança, indo desde a tenra idade até a adolescência. Conseguimos visualizar os acontecimentos descritos e quase tocar nas árvores que fazem parte desta leitura, apesar de nunca ter estado em Angola. Realizamos, conforme a leitura avança, a inocência existente e os olhares bondosos de uma criança que muito depressa perde-a quando confrontada com outras hipóteses, mais violentas.

Um caminhar pelas memórias dos anos 80.

Sinopse:

Há espaços que são sempre nossos. E quem os habita, habita também em nós. Falamos da nossa rua, desse lugar que nos acompanha pela vida. A rua como espaço de descoberta, alegria, tristeza e amizade. "Os da Minha Rua" tem nas suas páginas tudo isso.

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Ode to flowers

 

Cores Rico Design - pastel

 As cores pastel utilizadas nesta página dupla são da marca Rico Design, a qual desconhecia até bem pouco tempo  nesta sua face de pintura colorida mas mais nos fios que têm para tricot ou crochet, e que bonitas que elas são. Verdes e azul e igualmente o bege e cinza para dar tons suaves, a foto não lhe faz justiça pois parecem todas iguais. Utilizadas igualmente na página When ego is lost mas aqui foi mais os rosas, vermelho/laranja e salmão.

Até breve

Another day of outward smiles and inward screams

 

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The Duke and I (Bridgertons #1) de Julia Quinn

Leitura agradável e algo risonha neste romance histórico sobre Daphe  e Simon em que um procura companheiro de forma ativa mas o outro não. 

Sinopse:

The Duke and I is a romance set in the Regency era.

In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable… but not too amiable.

Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.

Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society—just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend’s sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar.

The plan works like a charm—at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London’s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule...

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