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I just discovered that you can buy the smell of old books, and even library scents.

Has anyone had experience with old book fragrances? Do they smell authentic, and could I use them to try and seduce bookworms?

There are several options:

https://smellslikebooks.com/products/old-books

https://www.amorphousperfume.com/products/antique-books-perfume-oil

https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Solstice-Scents/Library-36784.html

Reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Indiemakeupandmore/comments/9lyoks/old_books_is_there_a_perfume_that_smells_like_old/

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📚 Well, Actually by: Mazey Eddings

An utterly delightful and sexy second-chance romance between a black cat and golden retriever with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice!

Eva Kitt never expected to be the host of Sausage Talk, interviewing B-list celebrities over lukewarm hot dogs, instead of pur...

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Infinite Archive by: Mur Lafferty

Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it's bringing murder with it.

Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of humans visiting Station Eternity, she hasn’t seen so much as a bar braw...

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To the Moon and Back (Reese's Book Club) by: Eliana Ramage

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK: “A breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations.” —REESE WITHERSPOON

“Eliana Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence to effortless jumps through time and space—I loved it all.”...

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The Deal by: Elle Kennedy

New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy brings you the first in the sexy Off-Campus series that everyone is talking about.
She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy...
Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she's carting around a full set of baggage when ...

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Too Old for This by: Samantha Downing

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing.

Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her.

Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away ...

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Too Old for This by: Samantha Downing

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing.

Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her.

Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away ...

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Too Old for This by: Samantha Downing

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing.

Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her.

Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away ...

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Mickey7: A Novel (Mickey7, 1) by: Edward Ashton

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17).

Dying isn’t any fun
but at least it’s a living.

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice wo...

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New reading material arrived! I am looking forward to this, but I am notoriously bad at regularity, so please don't expect a full review any time soon :D

"Supernote by Jim Davidson, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent - Retired. Inspired by an untold true story".

It's a beautifully presented hard cover with a story I'm looking forward to getting into!

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"FICTION A gripping, fast-paced read. Jim Davidson's epic story would be impossible to believe if it wasn't true." -- Martin Dugard, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Taking London. "Supernote - The compelling inside story and shocking wake-up to how close the world came to financial chaos." - George Goldsmith, screenwriter of Children of the Corn. "SUPERNOTE" IS A COUNTERFEIT $100 BILL SO UNDETECTABLE, IT THREATENS TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE GLOBAL ECONOMY. ONE UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE SPECIAL AGENT CROSSED INTERNATIONAL BORDERS FROM THE IGUAZU JUNGLE IN ARGENTINA AND PARAGUAY, TO CASINOS IN MOSCOW, SAFE HOUSES IN BEIRUT AND THE BACK ALLEYS OF PHNOΜ ΡΕΝΗ ΀Ο UNRAVEL THE DISTRIBUTION ROUTES OF THE DPRK, HEZBOLLAH, PLO, PFLP AND IRA ALL SUPPORTING THEIR LETHAL OPERATIONS WITH SUPERNOTE FUNDS. SPECIAL AGENT ROSS GARRETT'S INVESTIGATION CULMINATES IN ARRESTING ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED FUGITIVES AND DISMANTLES THE INFAMOUS SUPERNOTE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, UNBEKNOWNST TO A WORLD OBLIVIOUS TO JUST HOW CLOSE IT OTHERWISE CAME TO GLOBAL FINANCIAL CHAOS. As a Special Agent of the United States Secret Service, Jim Davidson protected six Presidents as well as many international dignitaries. As Assistant Special Agent in Charge of three Headquarters Divisions, he directed counterfeit currency investigations and Treasury-related forgery and fraud investigations, giving him keen insight and firsthand knowledge of this dangerous and fascinating corner of crime.

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  1. Managed to complete an overdue peer review and hence, my civic duty as an academic done for the weekend.
  2. Still very under the weather so I've been reading under the covers. The under the weather part is not fun but reading under the covers is always nice.
  3. The music of Loscil. Here's a neat recording of a Loscil show:

https://youtu.be/c9X5gBfwWO4?si=aeoUHtwdRyeD4rj9

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Going back to this one. Can't get past a few chapters of the other book I previously picked up.

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Currently reading: J.M. Miro's Ordinary Monsters. So far, so good.

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