Not much has happened since I last blogged, gosh and it’s only day 7 of NaBloPoMo. Going to be a loooooong month.
Today I tried the BPAL fragrance Siren. It’s very strong, I think it might be a love oil. It reminds me of a specifically sweet-spicy scent I’ve detected at Indian grocers - it’s really pleasant but just a bit too heady for me I think. Here’s the description:
Bewitching, tantalizing and dangerously seductive. A thrilling, exotic blend — deceptively sweet, but spiked with malice. White ginger, jasmine, and a touch of vanilla.
I don’t really know what white ginger smells like but I definitely get the jasmine and vanilla - and oh how I heart jasmine. Anyway, it started off really wonderfully but now smells like…like crayons. Yes, crayons. I kid you not. A capital shame the vanilla and jasmine didn’t stick around the whole time, sigh.
Still reading The Night Watch and am hoping to finish it this week. I signed up for a 50-book challenge on aNobii. Here’s my list of books read so far. Man, I’m running out of time…
1. Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance
2. Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, Stardust
3. Charles Vess, Book of Ballads
4. Evan Bates ed. Japanese Love Poems
5. Thorsten Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption
6. Naoko Amemiya & Aoi Hiiragi, Baron: The Cat Returns
7. Terry Jones & Alan Ereira, Medieval Lives
8. John Hollander, Rhyme’s Reason
9. Kevin Brophy, Portrait in Skin
10. Margaret Atwood, The Penelopeiad
11. Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell, Murder Mysteries
12. Peter Lyssiotis, The Bird, The Belltower
13. Professor Solomon, Japan in a Nutshell
14. Eric Shanowar, Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships
15. Bill Willingham et al, Fables vol 8
16. Dorothy Porter, Wild Surmise
17. Robert Fagles trans. The Iliad
18. Edgar Allen Poe, Selected Tales (Oxford University Press edn)
19. Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife
20. Edward Lear, Complete Nonsense
21. Art Spiegelman, Maus I & II
22. L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
23. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
24. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
25. Yann Martel, Life of Pi
26. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
27. John Betjemen: Poems selected by Hugo Williams
28. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
29. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
30. Tom Standage, A History of the World in Six Glasses
31. Ella Holcombe, Welcome/No Vacancy
32. The Great Gatsby: A graphic novel adaptation by Nicki Greenberg of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
34. Mike Carey & John Bolton, God Save the Queen
35. Christopher Paolini, Eragon
36. Bill Willingham et al, Fables: Sons of Empire
37. Neil Gaiman et al. The Sandman: A Doll’s House
Wish me luck getting to 50!
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