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Doces Recordações (2010)

by Ellen Greene(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 2

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Romance

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Quinta Essência

review 1: Gostei, leitura leve para o Verão e uma história de amor como qualquer mulher desejaria viver. A maim tocou-me mais a conviência com o cuidar de uma pessoa que se ama e cuja mente se degenera rápidamente, pois convivo com isso na pessoa da minha mãe e sei como é duro vermos alguém que gostamos a perder as suas faculdades mentais... Recomendo....------------I Liked it, althought there are sad moments in the story, still it was a light read, and the kind of love story that every woman liked to live at least once in a lifetime. To me, it touched me the dealing with the degerating mind of someone you love and was very intelligent. To see them lose it is very hard, and Î understand the author because althought she is still very young, my 65 years old mum is going that w... moreay... I recomend this read.
review 2: "Remember the Sweet Things" is really a list that Ellen started when she first married her husband. Marsh didn't do extraordinarily sweet things on a daily basis, but Ellen found most things he did were in fact endearing and sweet enough to jot down. Each year she would then share her list in a Valentine's Day Card for Marsh to read. The book then goes into detail about Ellen's life before Marsh, how the two met, their marriage, and life after "happily ever after". It is obvious that Ellen loved her husband deeply and while reading along I could easily see why. Not necessarily my type of guy, Marsh was still a man to love and admire. I know I came to care about him and his personality. It was like watching an adventure unfold as Ellen re-told her story of a truly loving marriage, filled with both ups and downs. Ellen included many excerpts from her "Sweet Things" list at the end of each chapter and I wanted to share a few in hopes of generating some smiles from you all:Getting home from his trip to Eastern Europe and recounting his frustration with delays on the last leg because "they cut into my time with my wife". (87)His response to his best friends calling him pussy whipped: "I know. I like it." (88)Coming home with a rose and a sweet note, after I'd told him about my hard time with my hard time with my boss. (89)The excitement of his home leave after two months and meeting him at Logan; people smiling at a sixty-year-old man and a forty-five-year-old woman flying into each other's arms and kissing with abandon. (120)A vacation in Bali; Jennifer's disappointment at not finding a nice shell on the beach; his buying one and planting it for her to "find". (121)Opening the last peanut or spreading the last cracker or dipping the last chip, and always offering it to me. (191)On his hands and knees, next to the pool with Lola, his face in the water, demonstrating how to bob for the tennis balls she'd lost there. (225)My torn knee ligaments on the mend after a fall on the street; his impatience with me when I tried to help myself: "Call me!" "I'll do that!" "Go sit down!" (226)Telling me that he considers it a little gift each time that he wakes up and finds himself being held by me." (251)As you can see, most of what Marsh does is small, sweet, and kind every day things that I'm sure many men (and women) do for their significant others. Reading through them made me think of my other half and how much I miss the little things he did for me. However painful it may be for me I can always hope that I still have a shot for my "happily ever after". I highly recommend giving this beautiful book a try. less

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