__sniffing books

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books, cologne, habits, new, old, quirks, smelling books, sniffing, weirdness

Hey everyone! I’m not sure if this is a weird quirk but… I’m a sniffer. I’m a big sniffer of food. Even food I have eaten many times before, sometimes I sniff. I say it’s because I’m checking if it smells good/edible rather than rotten but it’s probably more of a habit now than anything. Don’t worry, I don’t go around sniffing other people’s food. They also say that a lot of the intensity of tasting food comes from the nose, hence you can’t taste food well when you’re sick. I also sniff my partner’s neck a lot. I love the fragrance of cologne and the aroma of clean skin. 😀

But this post isn’t about sniffing food or my partner’s neck… it’s about sniffing books. Even with my food sniffing tendencies, I don’t sniff books. I have sniffed them from time to time and I enjoy the smell of a bookstore but… books themselves? Do you sniff your books? Are there all kinds of book smells? I recall my sister once shoving a book in my face to smell which she claimed smelled like prawns. It did a little.

What have been your experiences with book sniffing?

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__travel must-list

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blogging, books, habits, internet, items, life, relationships, technology, travel, writing

For those of us who travel, whether it be across the globe or to stay the night at someone’s place, what do you need to take? Do you take practical items, sentimental items or nothing at all?

When it come’s to a single night at someone’s place the main thing I need to take is my phone. It keeps me connected with my parents who still, even at 19, freak out if I don’t call. It’s my security blanket.

If I am travelling the globe, like I am now (from Australia to Spain – The Canary Islands), I need internet. I need my laptop. I do not need to be connected 24/7 but I must know that I have a source. The laptop itself is required because I know I can write (I can’t write with pen and paper very well) and I can edit my photographs. If I can get mobile internet the laptop becomes the pool of life for me. 😛 Slight exaggeration… but maybe not so slight.

__bad habits

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discipline, habits, nail biting

I feel like venting. I hate that I bite my nails. I know pretty much everyone has a bad habit of sorts, some kind of repetitive behaviour they wish they didn’t do such as nail biting, eating, tapping, clicking their tongue or more severe issues such as addiction. I hate when I bite my nails. I am not one of those females obsessed with beauty and make up (far from it) and I also don’t really care about my nails but I hate the action of biting, putting your finger in your mouth.

__steps forward

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edaion, format, habits, paragraph, rituals, style, subjective, writing

Only recently have both Elia and I started our second book of the Edaion series and yet it has been more challenging then we first thought. It can be quite difficult to swap voices from character to character let alone wait anxiously for our manuscript to be analysised. I think that because we haven’t truly tied the final bow on our first book it doesn’t let us totally relax to merge into the second. Regardless it is going well when we do start writing, it’s just that nudge we need.