Borscht, homemade kombucha with beet juice and Jitterbug Perfume for lunch today at work. Goodness I love books and beets and books with beets.
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Borscht, homemade kombucha with beet juice and Jitterbug Perfume for lunch today at work. Goodness I love books and beets and books with beets.
“He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was #dynamic, he was eternal.” #QuotsyNov19
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time.👇
“The gods have a great sense of humor, don't they? If you lack the #iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.” #QuotsySept19
“I do not fear death. I resent it. Everything must die, apparently, and I am no exception. But I want to be consulted. You know what I mean? Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the #middle of something, and it doesn‘t bother to wipe its boots.” #QuotsyAug19
Lavender Festival 2019! Who knew there was such a thing!? Lavender is apparently the “other herb” Oregonians grow 😜
At the English Lavender Farm in the Applegate Valley, you can harvest lavender, buy a wide range of lavender-based products and foods, and inevitably think of Robbins‘ absurdist comedy, ‘Jitterbug Perfume.‘
We are in deep sleep only two or three hours a night. For the rest of our sleeping session, the unconscious mind is off duty. It gets bored. It craves recreation. So it plays with the material at hand. In a sense, it plays with itself. It scrambles memories, juggles images, rearranges data, invents scary or titillating stories. This is what we call "dreaming". #juggle #QuotsyJune19
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. Still, lovers #quarrel. Frequently, they quarrel simply to recharge the air between them, to sharpen the aliveness of their relationship." #QuotsyFeb19
pickIf you like your philosophy with cotton candy, enjoy stories about immortality, and can‘t live without beets then this book is your ticket to the circus of life. It spans a 1000 years in which a condemned king meets a Greek god and travels the world with his true love. It‘s a story replete with sex, intrigue, and three perfumeries‘ attempts to find the perfect scent. It has a little something for everyone. Join King Alobar. You won‘t regret it.
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.” #individual #QuotsyAug18
#AbbaInAugust #DancingQueen Jitterbug Perfume is our IRL Bookclub book this month. The shoe 👠 is my daughter‘s bottle of perfume she had with her this weekend.. it‘s pretty nice - Carolina Herrera ( I might treat myself, it‘s a nice warm scent) 👠💃🏾💃🏾
Bookclub last night IRL ... this is our book for August, never heard of it , sounds interesting 👍🏻💕
Four days at a library conference and hardly a book I was interested in. Fifteen minutes at Beckham‘s Bookstore in New Orleans and I found four things I wanted—and, in Jitterbug Perfume, a great recommendation.
pickHow do soul-mates find each other incarnation after incarnation? By smell of course😉
#ReadingResolutions Day23 #LoveStory
“The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.”
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from #peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.” #QuotsyJan18
My tiny #bookhaul from Sundog Books. I controlled myself! I wanted more but I‘ve bought a lot of books lately. I picked this book based on @Shemac77 ‘s recent review! No clue when I‘ll get to it, but hopefully soon.
A gray and dreary day is a perfect time to visit the wholesale book seller and see what I can find.
pickSmell, death, life, love; all covered in a technicolor dream coat. Who would've thought that those innocuous things would conspire to make a novel of such loveliness and fun? Tom Robbins at his finest. Every sentence is immaculate. I want to crawl inside his brain and see what I can find.
"But the devil will bite a young girl if she gives him a spot, and he sure took a nibble of this one."
Well then....
Hi, my name is Sheila and I adore Tom Robbins.
#readeverydayeverywhere
#paramediclitten
#nslitten
#readingissexy
#anditsaugust Day 11: #startswithj
Thought I'd show you the "J" books on my Goodreads tbr. Not pictured because Goodreads uses so much space to display books now is The Just City by Jo Walton.
pickHey sorry for the absence but here I am again. This book surprised me and it was enthralling and fun
1, Ontario, now in BC
2, Jitterbug Perfume
3, Narnia
4, Godfather 2 or Big Lebowski
5, Roseanne
6, Tom Waits
7, Ocean blue
8, Literary fiction? (vague, I know)
9, Tattoo & Piercing studio
10, no😼
Weekend getaway with the hubby and found this gem in the hotel lobby's free library . Usually all you find in hotel libraries are Sue Grafton and old Readers Digest Condensed books . SCORE !!
pickA book devoted to the beetroot - how could you not yourself rooted to the page at every turn? A sweet addition to the kooky corpus.
pickDay 3 of being laid up in bed with the baddest of bad backs. Hockey & Tom Robbins. I love him. I love this book. I'll have to play #riotgrams catch up when I'm mobile again, y'all.
I enjoy this book the most when it goes far, far back in time. I think it might be my favorite Tom Robbins book that I've read so far, but I'm not finished yet. It always seems like Robbins is trying really hard to teach his readers a lesson or two.
Life is too short for re-reads, except for Jitterbug Perfume. Easily my favorite adulthood book. This is my current bedside table pile.
My roommate knows me so well. #fragranceforever
Started this, my 2nd #LitsyGoesPostal book, and must say it is the best-smelling book I've ever read! Thanks @callunakeep !
I know other Littens have already posted this as their #weirdbook but it doesn't get much weirder. And I love it. #somethingforsept
Tom Robbins' writing is an acquired taste with his absurdist sense of humor, wildly digressive passages, a kind of vulgar pruriency, and simile driven prose. I was reading 'Jitterbug Perfume' and thinking maybe he just wasn't for me when he got me with "[Paris]... a city that was primed for the Age of Reason, a populace that was beginning to put Descartes before des horse." ? #FunFridayPhoto
Today's haul. I can't help it if the grocery store is so close to the used book store. 🙃
Today's haul. I can't help it if the grocery store is so close to the used book store. 🙃
Half-Way Status Update: I *still* don't know what the heck is going on! The plot, if there is one, is slow to gel; so I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the ride! 😄(C2 AD statue of Pan at the Louvre; image cropped; image snagged from www.theoi.com)
pickMy first Tom Robbins book has me wanting to read more by him. This story generally follows Alobar, a chieftain on the Roman Empire's frontier, through modern times as he discovers the secrets of seemingly eternal youth, with some help along the way. Quirky humor, exotic locales, memorable characters, fun fare! #PairWith: a French Quarter Hurricane: Pat O'Brien's Rum, 4 oz.; Pat O'Brien's Hurricane Mix, 4 oz.; shaken; on the rocks; orange wedge.
It's been decades since I've read anything by Tom Robbins; but I'm starting this one today!
Read this last year but it's been on my mind lately. Well at least this opening page had been. Tom Robbin's writing is so quirky I'm sure he is one you either love or hate. For me it was love at first page! Seriously who describes vegetables that way. Dying to know his take on eggplants 😂
