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fiefoeQuips about dancing about architecture notwithstanding, Kathleen Tessaro is really good at describing perfume. A melodrama deftly told.
The narrator of the audiobook has a very likable Australian accent for Don. To make a comedy of misunderstanding work, Graeme Simsion had Rosie making boneheaded plans like 'I'll take our newborn baby to medical school classes,' which defies credulity.
Highlights: the comparison between a surprise pregnancy and a pilot declaring only one engine is failing is so typically Don; accountant Silvia pretending to be an Italian peasant girl pretending to be Rosie the medical student during the social worker interview is also a hoot.
- Mass was like grand opera, a magic show with the most expensive props in town, and faith, a sleight of hand trick in which one is both magician and the audience.
- (Being a housewife: ) the days have a weary open-endedness to them.
- Vanessa understood that the success of the entire venture depended upon the delicate relationship between anticipation and fulfillment. Too long a wait between one and the other resulted only in indifference and boredom. And any event that didn't demand the frenetic re-juggling of previous commitments, a trail of white lies, and testing of long-held personal loyalties wasn't worth attending.
- The entire city was enveloped in a halo of glowing softness. The French was fluent in the language of beauty, just as she has been told, but it was a subtly more encompassing comprehension than she'd anticipated.
- My language is scent, the vocabulary of feeling and memory.
- Don't you find that the line between something being ravishing and revolting is dangerously close. Sometimes something is so ugly it becomes amazing.
- That's what fashion is, really. A way of renegotiating with the terms that life deals you. When a women changes her hair, what she's really saying is No.
- (Why perfume:) Sweat is like silence, the reason the composer reaches for the pen in the first place.
The narrator of the audiobook has a very likable Australian accent for Don. To make a comedy of misunderstanding work, Graeme Simsion had Rosie making boneheaded plans like 'I'll take our newborn baby to medical school classes,' which defies credulity.
Highlights: the comparison between a surprise pregnancy and a pilot declaring only one engine is failing is so typically Don; accountant Silvia pretending to be an Italian peasant girl pretending to be Rosie the medical student during the social worker interview is also a hoot.
