I am allergic to the book I'm reading

[rareboy]

It is a paperback English mystery published in 1933, shipped from a bookstore in London.

It isn't that it smells mouldy or mildewy....but when I read it in bed before sleep, my sinuses immediately fill up and my eyes start to water.

So in order to finish the book....I have resorted to a mask and goggles.

Does anyone else suffer from allergies to old paper and book spores?

 

[LeicsDom]

 

[Cormac135]

Thankfully not, i love the smell of old books, well apart from the cigarette smell.

 

[Alistair]

I'm glad I've never suffered from that, since my bedroom is filled with old books.

 

[Vannie]

I have a lot of old cookbooks that can make me sneeze sometimes.

 

[GayLad87]

I'm so glad I dont. May I ask what book?

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Book? Sis nobody likes a smart girl, did you check out those youtube makeup tutorials I sent you?

 

[rareboy]

I'm so glad I dont. May I ask what book?

John Dickson Carr: The Mad Hatter Mystery

 

[PipeDream]

It wasn't an allergy, but my copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had a really unpleasant smell to it when it arrived. It was genuinely distracting until odor fatigue kicked in, but it was a struggle for me to get to that point.

Sometimes tablets can be preferable.

 

[rareboy]

Book? Sis nobody likes a smart girl, did you check out those youtube makeup tutorials I sent you?

This book was not improving my mind....only to lull me to sleep. The tutorials get me so revved up that before I know it, it is sunrise and I've only completed my evening 'look'.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

This book was not improving my mind....only to lull me to sleep. The tutorials get me so revved up that before I know it, it is sunrise and I've only completed my evening 'look'.

Just be mindful sis, remember that one night I went out without my face properly beat? It will be immortalized forever on the interwebbz (and on file at the Chicago Police Department)

 

[Alistair]

Just be mindful sis, remember that one night I went out without my face properly beat? It will be immortalized forever on the interwebbz (and on file at the Chicago Police Department)

You should join Telstra over in the corner looking at your pop-up books and leave the intelligent conversations to the adults.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

You should join Telstra over in the corner looking at your pop-up books and leave the intelligent conversations to the adults.

Umm escuse me? I am VERY edjumacataed. I went to da school of hard knocks and graduated on top of my class (well, they were mostly on top of me but a few them did me in a reverse cowgirl).

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Is she related to that blue-eyed Ur-Briton or that green-eyed Afghan woman from National Geographic from a few years back?

 

[sixthson]

Jeez, the drink and drugs are really taking a toll on your face, Carrot Top. Nice titties, though.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Is she related to that blue-eyed Ur-Briton or that green-eyed Afghan woman from National Geographic from a few years back?

I'm not even sure it's human.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Jeez, [STRIKE]the drink and drugs are really taking a toll on your face, Carrot Top.[/STRIKE] Nice titties[STRIKE], though[/STRIKE].

Thanks

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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