Book Lovers Never Go To Bed Alone

I am so behind on my blogging, thanks to the holidays! I still haven't posted the blog about Vivi's birthday, but I'll link to it when I finally do. Tonight I'm up late doing a little Cyber Monday shopping. We just got back from our Vegas vacation a week ago and I was finally able to do a little reading. I have been slowly trying to fill my library with quality, leather-bound editions of the classics. Barnes & Noble has been selling some really beautiful ones, and I bought Wuthering Heights, because I'd never read it. What a disturbing book it turned out to be! The characters are utterly worthless, evil creatures who are completely bent on creating hell on earth for everyone around them, most particularly those they love. It ends as well as can be expected though, and if I were to take a moral from it, it would probably be that no good deed goes unpunished.

I thought I'd share a fun little book-hack I've come up with. I always get these beauty catalogs in the mail that come with four or five of those paper samples of perfume or cologne. Usually these things fall out on the floor or in my lap or end up in Vivienne's mouth, thereby making her whole face smell like Justin Bieber's "The Key" or something else equally nauseating. I actually do like some of these samples and tend to go through them to see if I want a new fragrance on my Christmas list, but they tend to pile up. I got the idea recently to use them for bookmarks, for the dual purpose of holding my place and making my books smell lovely. I've started sorting through them each time they show up and putting my favorites in my books. I think this adds a fun little sensory experience to reading, as if your leading man is right there in the room with you.

Ah well, time to hit the hay, as they say. I hope I can get back on soon and post the rest of my blogs that are piling up inside my brain!