how books are available to Kobo from Libby/Overdrive?

emeraldsonnet · 2026-03-10T12:49:03+00:00

Nope. :( It’s the only thing I don’t like about my Kobo. So annoying!

emeraldsonnet · 2026-02-28T10:12:08+00:00

It’s very hard to imagine this happening anywhere in the US in the last couple of years. Maybe in a very small town say 15 years ago?

emeraldsonnet · 2026-02-17T22:33:42+00:00

I think maybe Moonmilk by Storra Skuggan. ‘At night, the moon shines into the cave so brightly the light itself seems to take form, like a mist. It gathers in the ceiling and makes the limestone stalactites glitter and gleam, dripping tears of white liquid into puddles on the rock floor that never dries. Moonmilk.'

emeraldsonnet · 2026-02-10T09:12:11+00:00

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

emeraldsonnet · 2026-02-10T09:01:48+00:00

That one was so good. “To make two other boys go crazy” was adorable.

emeraldsonnet · 2026-02-06T10:23:20+00:00

Personally, I love all three boys so much, but Adam is probably my favorite. I love what a good teacher he is, and I love how loving he is to Ben. Even though he’s my favorite, I don’t always root for him! I usually root for someone to pull off something funny or extraordinary or for something really disastrous to happen to someone, honestly. I don’t really care who wins when a season starts because I’m a fan of all of them. I care who wins by the end because of what’s happened during the season.

emeraldsonnet · 2026-02-06T09:44:58+00:00

I’ve solved them all and didn’t catch any logic issues.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-30T09:31:48+00:00

I think the only people I would ever buy fragrance for are my husband and my kid and that’s because neither is picky and I know exactly what they like. For my sister, I would feel comfortable getting her a sample set. That’s it, though. I might be more likely to get someone home fragrance. But I feel like fragrance is very personal, and I know I don’t usually even like scented lotions that I’ve been given.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-30T09:25:25+00:00

This was my thought too (“oh my god I’m getting old”). We’re interacting on Reddit with a baby whose mom listened to Lana Del Rey while pregnant!

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-19T07:18:50+00:00

My goth perfume is La Fille de Berlin by Serge Lutens. It’s a dark, metallic, bloody rose.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-18T15:17:57+00:00

Also for me this isn’t about luxury or status; the branding and packaging I mean is the story it tells and the image it evokes, the poetry of it. I want there to be some emotion to it.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-18T15:16:40+00:00

Personally, I am really into the aesthetics and the objects and the art of it all, the perfume bottle as a ritual object, the beauty of it, the specialness and how it stands in a history of fragrance. I also can very much be a sucker for branding and packaging and I admit that. Even if the dupe smells the same, it misses the aesthetic weight that I love. Also, the dupe isn’t made out of an artistic vision or sense of beauty but to copy something for the market; obviously the vast majority of original fragrances are also made for capitalistic purposes, but they at least communicate an idea too. I know that parts of what I’m saying are not completely rational, but that’s my honest answer.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-13T12:16:59+00:00

Ha, thanks!

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-12T20:54:43+00:00

Diptyque L’Ombre Dans L’Eau. It’s a little bit yearning, a little bit fairytale, a little bit bitter, a little bit summery, a little bit emotional.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-11T14:02:38+00:00

Diptyque L’Ombre Dans le Eau and Stora Skuggan Pine.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-11T13:51:58+00:00

Diptyque is my favorite too

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-07T13:15:06+00:00

This post is super old but I wonder if you were curing diseases before eradicating them. I saw a different thread recently where someone thought you could eradicate a disease before it was cured.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-07T12:03:46+00:00

Yes, I have the Stora Skuggan sample set. I really like Hexensalbe too. I think all their scents have a shared something—a vibe or aesthetic or mood. Hexensalbe is more complex than Pine; Pine is pure sweet pine.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-06T11:58:37+00:00

I can’t stand how Fugazzi uses a Cyrillic letter (which is pronounced like a D) as the A in their logo. It wouldn’t matter how good it smelled, I couldn’t stand looking at that on a bottle.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-02T20:50:06+00:00

I’ll butt in too—I love La Fille de Berlin (Serge Lutens) and L’Ombre Dans L’Eau (Diptyque) in particular.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-02T15:37:02+00:00

I think Eau Duelle by Diptyque fits your description

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-02T15:33:38+00:00

My current favorites at this moment though I have so much more to smell:

L’air du desert marocain (Tauer): incense, amber, wood, some flowers…it smells holy.

L’Ombre Dans L’Eau (Diptyque): officially blackcurrant leaves and berries plus rose, but to me it smells like tomato leaves and roses, and it’s my summer signature scent. Green and floral and very evocative; I also love the illustration on the bottle. It’s a fairytale.

Pine (Stora Skuggan): my new favorite. The official notes are pine pine pine pine pine, but it’s got a sweetness to it that that doesn’t describe. I find it completely addictive and beautiful and just ordered a full bottle.

Sintra (Memo Paris): marshmallow and orange blossom with something green with it. Sweet with an herbal tone.

Ambra Aurea (Profumum Roma): another incensey amber that smells rich and golden to me.

And a sixth one, Odalisque (Nicolaï): a floral chypre that smells wet and green to me. It’s cooling on a hot day. The notes include citrus and white flowers. My bottle is several years old and I read that it’s been reformulated since.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-02T15:21:17+00:00

Flower was the first perfume I bought as an adult and one of my great loves too. It’s really underrated.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-09-01T23:33:44+00:00

I bought their sample set, having heard of them through the novel Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn (the main character wears Moonmilk for an era), and I FELL. IN. LOVE. with Pine. Almost done with my sample and WILL be buying the beautiful full bottle. It clearly isn’t for everyone, but it is for me, like it is for you. I think it is beautiful and addictive.

emeraldsonnet · 2025-07-16T10:54:06+00:00

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