The Emperor of Scent/ libraries

[avad]

just finished reading 'The Emperor of Scent'. I first picked it up at Borders and became completely engrossed. Thrilled when i found it at the library. LOVEDLOVED the portions which explored in depth the mystery of scent with details and descriptions of various mixtures and historic perfumes, but grew very impatient with the drawn out scientific community politics and personality battles surrounding the theory (which unfortunately was given priority focus in the ...book- just not interesting to me). I'd like to take out my favorite pages and make a smaller pamphlet on scent and memory.
Read the first pages: here

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Perfume-Obsession-Mystery/dp/0375507973

stopped at the library after work, and sat there to finish reading that book so I could finally return it and leave with another bag full of books, mags and films. A new book by Diane Ackerman, and one on The Age of Empathy...more on perfume/scent, foreign films. libraries=endorphin rush for me. mmmm mmm yeah♥

Comments

[harsforn.livejournal.com]

I always get carried away at libraries. Information must be harvested!

[avad.livejournal.com]

definitely. My dad started it when I was a little girl....he would always go to the library and bring home a huge stack of books and spill them out on the kitchen table excitedly. Then I started doing the same with him...we would both go and leave with our arms full, barely able to carry. His enthusiasm for learning and all the wonders and 'wow look at THIS!!' was so infectious.:)Still is. Reading incessantly, walks in nature, asking the big questions, art, art, ART...big reason I became an artist as well. I think you will enjoy his art as well:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nesart/sets/72157605526944183/

[harsforn.livejournal.com]

Whooa. He's out there! Awesome art, thanks. I like his space stuff :D