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  8. emzebel

    2014 Reading

    in Maps and Legends

    A blog by emzebel

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    Was Night Circus not the best book ever. Just...everything.

     

    I had a hard time with Night Circus, actually. I wanted to adore it - everything about it felt like it was written for me. But I had a really hard time getting into it, in that "if this book were not so perfectly me, I wouldn't even pass page 50" kind of way. I did end up enjoying it, but it never quite felt like the book I wanted it to be, I guess.

  9. emzebel

    2013 Reading

    in Maps and Legends

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    I should note, for purposes of posterity, that I stopped counting books read aloud to my son as a separate list, and just incorporated them into the list overall. One would think that would have helped my totals more, but given how long the His Dark Materials series is...

     

    Basically, I figured that since I'm pushing him toward stuff I like anyway, I should just count the books as rereads and be done with it.

  12. Ina Garten Davita

    Anaconda V. Sugar Skull '04

    in What smells in here?

    A blog by Ina Garten Davita

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    Andra, I was going to ask if you'd tried this. :ninja:

     

    I don't have both scents, having swapped away both SS 04 and 05, because it was just too saccarine sweet for me - the kind of syrupy sugary sweet that just made my teeth hurt to sniff it. However, I was one of the people who got a serious maple vibe, and alas, no fruit out of SS, so that I think may be the kicker in the Anaconda comparison - Anaconda does the same syrupy maple thing on me and my nose wrinkle, too sweet reaction is the same for both.

     

    The sultryness of the Snake Oil certainly helps make Anaconda more wearable, I think, but the issue may be one of whether you are one of the lucky ducks who gets sugared fruit out of Sugar Skull.

  13. filigree_shadow

    My problem(s) with Heaven & Earth Essentials

    in Do you have a flag?

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    PK, fwiw, although you are accusing people of "coming into the thread without having tried the products", personally, I have tried several of Michele's scents. Several of the other people who have criticized her business methods have mentioned that they have placed orders in the past or have tried her scents from friends.

     

    But really, that is irrelevant. There is no rule here that someone has to have tried a product to make a judgement about the business ethics of the proprietor of the business. I don't need to make an order from some of the businesses that people have complained about in the "Buyer Beware" thread to start to make a judgement about whether I want to order from that business, or to buy some feMaledictions to be wary about the shipping problems people are reporting.

     

    Likewise, I don't have to have actually given Michelle any money in exchange for product to dislike the fact that she has refused to follow the rules here and flat out lied to moderators and admins when asked to follow the same rules that every other forumite is asked to follow. I don't have to buy her products to dislike the fact that she was a member of this board prior to opening her own business selling perfume oils, targeted to an alternative market, with several similar names and stated note combinations to popular BPAL blends. And no one on this board has to be a customer of a business to point these things out.

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