Favourite of the Week

This weeks favourite is Captain Wentworth of Jane Austen's Persuasion which I have just finished reading. I'm not sure if I've ever read it before, actually. Such a shame because it's a great novel! I have seen the adaptation from 2007, however, like a million times. I'm currently so in love with Captain Wentworth, maybe because of Rupert Penry-Jones. He is gorgeous and plays the part so well (I have seen the one from 1995 and I didn't like it as much. But that is for another blog post)!

Perhaps not so shockingly to fall for him, especially not after you have read his letter to Anne. Some people claim that Jane Austen's novels are boring and without passion, but after reading that letter, I beg the difference. It's filled with passion. Read for yourselves:

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W."

"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."

Persuasion chapter 23 

If that's not passionate, I don't know what is.I'm swooning right now. It is really a shame that we do not get to know more of his feelings in the book. I would have liked a chapter dedicated just to him, instead of Anne all the time. But, she is the main character, I guess. Perhaps I must write his story myself? :P 

And he can ride a horse! *drools*

I'm Counting the Days...

Favourite of the Week

I thought I would start a trend. A regular feature here in my blog called "Favourite of the week". I haven't exactly decided on what it will entail, but, I had planned on like character, actor/ess or novel or... well basically anything, really.

So with out further ado, I give you...
Eric Northman, viking vampire and character in Charlaine Harris' novel series Southern Vampire Mysteries. He is roughly about a thousand years old. He's Swedish. And so very sexy. He's tall and well built if we may trust Sookie Stackhouse (“handsome, in fact, radiant; blond and blue-eyed, tall and broad shouldered. He was wearing boots, jeans, and a vest. Period. Kind of like the guys on the cover of romance books.”). He's all together attractive. And even though he's a flirt and perhaps somewhat of a player and bad boy, we get to see a softer, more sensitive side of him in Dead to the World when he's bewitched and without a memory of the vampire he used to be. He grows as a character in the books, which don't think comes across in the Tv-series True Blood. I do, however, approve of them choosing Alexander Skarsgård and the fact that he speaks Swedish from time to time. :) It cracks me up every time.

I really like the way he always sound so seductive... It really, when listening to the audio book, sends shivers down my spine, and it's really a woman reading it! That's good writing, right? :P

Don't you just want to eat him up? 

Pictures from: True-blood.net and Deviantart

Another tips of Free stuff

Yup, found another great free site for audio books today. It's called LibriVox, and it's contents is read by volunteers. Check it out. I've just downloaded The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, which I haven't read before. Interesting.