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#lavender #coverlove

This has got to be the strangest book I‘ve ever read! I don‘t know quite how to review it but I can say for sure it has definitely enhanced my vocabulary for sure!!!

One of my favorite books of all time. I love intertwining plot lines, bizarre characters and an opening line that pulls you in from the first moment you start reading.

“Should you fail to #pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.” #QuotsyAug21

“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of #beer.” #QuotsyAug21

“The beet is the most intense of #vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.” #QuotsyJun21

So far this seems to be several interwoven stories: two lovers who seek immortality, and several groups of people spread across the world who compete to re-create an ancient perfume.

Meanwhile, while googling more info on something in the book, I accidentally stumbled across a cocktail recipe (from goop, of all places 🤔) that incorporates the ingredients of the fictional perfume into a cocktail...

https://goop.com/recipes/jitterbug-perfume/

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

1. When done well they can really add to the story, but otherwise they can become convoluted and pull you out of both narratives.
2. Tagged
3. Science fiction is tailor-made for dual timelines.

Even with a second read it stands up completely original.

Reading and wine in front of the fire

“I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to tempt us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To #fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.” #QuotsyNov20

Some people can't stand writers who revel in their own “cleverness“, but when the writer in question has Robbins' command of the language and seemingly endless supply of inventive metaphors, it's a joy to watch him show off. Jitterbug Perfume shows Robbins at the height of his powers, and even those who aren't devotees will surely find something to like here.

Or Alabama, or anywhere in the Deep South 😂😂 #quotsyjuly20 #humid @TK-421

don't love Tom Robbins. This book was ok

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

Happy Spring 🌺

“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

If 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.

"...hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic..." #Red #QuotsyDec18

#quotsynov18
#smoke. @TK-421

“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 👍🏻💕

#onedance #heatofjuly

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.

How 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

Read multiple times. An all time favorite

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.

Smell, 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

🎶Where it's at - I got two Tom Robbins and an Ink and Bone. 🎶

#sorrynotsorry

Evening reading with wine!

#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.

Hey 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 !!

A book devoted to the beetroot - how could you not yourself rooted to the page at every turn? A sweet addition to the kooky corpus.