And The Mountains Echoed

望穿秋水的第三部。。。。

Khaled Hosseini的第三部。。。。

之前在一个blogger的blog看到一些感想，说是太多人物，太复杂，我有些失落，因为期望很高。

虽有心理准备，但还是失望了。开始的几个chapter还好，看到第六、七、八的时候就不行了，再来个九时，心里不得不 “不是吧？”。

故事的根基是很吸引人的。感情深厚的兄妹被迫分离，妹妹被卖到有钱人家，成为无儿无女的夫妇的养女，被疼爱着。然后，兄妹身边的人物一个接一个的出场，到最后才回到兄妹本身。

这样的写法在英文小说是常见的，以各个不同的角色和角度呈现不同的版本，但九个就太多了。差不多是九篇微型小说，连贯性不十分集中，感情部分有点不够强烈。

除了开始兄妹间的那章，还蛮喜欢养母的性格和他内心的感受。

再来是养父的秘密和他最终的选择。使我感动的是照顾了他数十载的舅父。这一章蛮长，也比较有感情。

之后的几个人物角色给我模糊的感觉，觉得牵涉的范围太广了。

尽管如此, 我还是很喜欢作者的写法，那种简单的陈述，却能带出浓浓的情感。

这一回，没看得泪流满面、也没痛心疾首，没有之前两本的轰轰烈烈，但它还是登上暢销宝座，狂售300万本。

Miniature Perfume and Decoupage

When I was young-er, like all other young girls, I like to wear perfume. I wore perfume so that I smell fresh and nice everyday in the office. Colleagues used to commend about how the scent lingered on when I passed by and I remembered feeling really wonderful.

My very first perfume was Poison which was a real hit then. It was a birthday gift. I always cherish and it stays my favorite all these while.

It was only when I worked in a fragrance company that I got the chance to collect all these miniatures. The miniatures are very cute because most of them measured less than 5cm. And the fact that the designs of the bottles are very attractive and some are really unique.


My all time favorite, Poison by none other than Christian Dior.



c'est la vie (this is life), Christian Lacroix, very beautiful curve-shaped bottle.

Flower by Kenzo, very refreshing ....

Cleaning them is not a joke.

pour femme, for the feminine..... 

Christian Dior- Diorissimo, Fahrenheit , Dune .
YSL - Paris, Versace and so on...

Beautiful names - Talisman & Lyra, the one in the shape of a leaf is by Kenzo. 

pour home, for the masculine......


Kenzo, Chavenon, Hugo Boss, Guy Laroche.

The twisted bottle is Montana with very sweet scent, simple rectangular bottle with one-sided cap is Prada



As I posted in my previous blog, I tried my hand on decoupage in the little black shelf that house all these little bottles. 

 

Painting on wood is easy.

 

Working through the night...

When it's done.........




There, looking sweet and definitely beautiful!

Totally transformed!

So the ugly black house is now fully transformed into white with pink and green napkin cuttings. It is that simple and effortless. I am now paying my attention to the larger items in the house, for example, the spiral staircase railing....too ambitious? Let's wait and see!

P/S:-





Vol  De Nuit, Guerlain, what a beautiful name!
常在亦舒小说里出现的“午夜飞行”。