on Boxing Day, four things make an entry
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truepenny1. 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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 causedmirrorthaw 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.
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:
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
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.
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Date: 2007-12-26 08:44 pm (UTC)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.