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The Perfume Of Life

Just caught a 5 yr old smelling the books. We have her for life. — BOOKCOURT (@BookCourt) August 24, 2012 That was a tweet from the Brooklyn independent bookstore Book Court, which was my old neighborhood haunt in Cobble Hill. It’s a great place, and boy, do I love this observation (I don’t know why […]

That was a tweet from the Brooklyn independent bookstore Book Court, which was my old neighborhood haunt in Cobble Hill. It’s a great place, and boy, do I love this observation (I don’t know why tweets won’t embed in WordPress). I have loved the smell of books for as long as I can remember. What’s especially great is the way dried glue and binding smells in the stacks at libraries. When I was a kid, that was the aroma of adventure, of comfort, of escape. Two of my three kids are book maniacs. I’m going to ask them today if they like the way books smell. I bet they do. And I bet my outdoorsy kid says, “Books have a smell?”

 

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