Scents that you will see:

Lavender
Ambrosia’s Roses
Ginger Peach
Very Sexy (Type)
Fuzzy Navel Orange
Organic Lemon
and
Misbehavin (sweet juicy candied apples and pomegranate, with nuances of fresh ivy and oak moss)

If there is a scent you would like to see us carry that is not listed, drop an email and let me know what you would like to see.

Carolly Erickson takes the reader deep into the psyche of France’s doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her; her fears on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing attempted flight from France in disguise; her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her young son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again.

So over all for the challenges, I finished 8 books for the month so that put me 8 books into my main challenge, my 100+ challenge, Read and Review. 7 books also counted towards the Read from my Shelves challenge. 1 book is finished from the Read the book see the movie challenge. 1 What’s in a name, 1 YA and 1 from my Chic Lit challenge.

In the wake of buckling markets, banks knocked to their knees, and massive amounts of presumed wealth revealed as the product of self-deception and breathtaking criminality, an age of indulgence has dramatically impacted American life. Economically, we understand how it happened, but why it happened is more of a mystery. What psychological factors fueled the years of excess and, more important, how do we refocus ourselves for a more rational, self-controlled future?

As J.R. Slosar shows in this urgent, sometimes startling volume,the nation’s fast-and-loose approach to money was, in fact, a symptom of a more widespread pattern of excessive behavior. In The Culture of Excess: How America Lost Self-Control and Why We Need to Redefine Success, Slosar portrays an America where the drive to succeed and the fear of missing out manifested itself not only in self-entitled corporate fraud, but in everything from sharp rises in obesity and cosmetic medical procedures to equally troubling increases in eating disorders, panic attacks, and outbreaks of uncontrollable rage.

Illustrating its thesis with numerous vignettes and case studies, The Culture of Excess is the first book to assess the impact of economic and social factors on the nation’s psychological well-being. It shows how capitalism, technology, and media interact and become additive factors in the loss of self-control, and it explains how the compromises made in adapting to intense economic competition lead to a false sense of self and reality. Narcissism, productive narcissism, psychopathy, rigidity and self destruction, perfectionism, the illusion of success, and identity achievement all come into play as Slosar diagnoses the psychological drivers behind this indulgent age, offering his prescription for helping “Generation Me” become “Generation We.”

Dr. Slosar displays his information on the “me” generation very well and lays it out in an easy to understand manner. There are many points in this book that I fully agree with. We have done something wrong in this country after all look at how it sits financially, how much debt there is and how many homes are not empty.

Overall, I have to say I enjoyed the book. There was a large cast of characters and they were on occasion hard to keep straight, but for the most part, they were well explained. Some of them were likeable and several were not very likeable. That is a sign of a true to life book; you can never like everybody all the time.