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Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ summer reading list, edition 14

Posted by Robin on 13 July 2024 148 Comments

Welcome to our annual summer reading poll! (And if you want more recommendations, see fall, winter and spring).

The poll: please recommend a great book to add to our summer reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

My recent reading…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ spring reading list, edition 5

Posted by Robin on 4 May 2024 270 Comments

(Update: I forgot to say that this is a 3 day poll! Use the comments section to talk about whatever you like on Monday, and there will be a new scent of the day poll on Tuesday.)

Welcome to our 5th annual spring reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.

(Or, as always, just talk about something else.)

What I’ve read since our winter reading poll…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ winter reading list, edition 12

Posted by Robin on 3 February 2024 157 Comments

Welcome to our annual winter reading poll! Tell us about a great book to curl up with on a frosty winter night, and what fragrance we should wear while reading it. (Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.)

My recent reading…

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Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France by Cheryl Krueger ~ perfume book

Posted by Robin on 9 October 2023 8 Comments

Cheryl Krueger, professor in the Department of French at the University of Virginia (and a former book reviewer at Now Smell This), has published Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ fall reading list, edition 5

Posted by Robin on 7 October 2023 111 Comments

PSA: the fall splitmeet will start on Saturday October 21.

Meanwhile, please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

Or, as always, just talk about something else.

Since the summer reading poll, I’ve read…

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