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1. the wolf book

Lovely review of A Companion to Wolves here; we also make OF Blog of the Fallen's auxilliary Best of 2007 list.



2. BPAL

I got myself a bottle of Titus Andronicus for my birthday, and also, of course, imps.

Thus far, I have tried:

Port-au-Prince: pleasant enough, but meh--I thought I smelled like a cookie.

Fruitcake: [livejournal.com profile] mirrorthaw thought I smelled like a cookie. Also, the hangover the next morning was cloying.

Iago: started off great, dark and almost chocolaty, but everything faded except a dusty-sweet note I didn't much care for.

The Unicorn: extremely pleasant, robust, and durable, but omg. FEMME. No, this isn't surprising, given the description: A misty, almost luminous perfume: wispy linden blossoms, white flowers, and a touch of sweet herbs. Honestly, great scent, floral but clean instead of sickly. Just not for me. It caused [livejournal.com profile] mirrorthaw severe cognitive dissonance all day long. Seriously. Femme.



3. UBC

Butler, Anne M. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West 1865-90. Urbana: Illini-University of Illinois Press, 1987.

My opinion of this book hasn't changed. The pictures are fantastic, the primary source material is fascinating . . . the book itself is deeply flawed and frustrating.

I'm now reading Alexa Albert's Brothel (2001), which makes an interesting pairing.



4. Corambis progress, and there even is some!

I went through the first draft and extracted about half of it, non-consecutively, into a salvage file. Most of the rest of it I was positively grateful to lose. I have 60 connected pages of the second draft, and feel much more confident that I might be doing something right this time.

Date: 2007-12-26 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quietselkie.livejournal.com
I found this book useful and interesting and not TOO badly written, though it needed a red pen taken to it:
Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West (http://www.amazon.com/Soiled-Doves-Prostitution-Early-Women/dp/096190884X/). It included a lot of photographs and newspaper excerpts.

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