Wandering the stacks

One of the perks of working in a library: you come across titles like these:

• Hubbub: Filth, noise, and stench in England, 1600-1770

• At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

• Stirring the mud: on swamps, bogs, and the human imagination

• The science of fairy tales: an enquiry into fairy mythology
  (which you can read in full at Google Books, if you so desire, along with tons of other stuff)