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About smellincoffee

Citizen, librarian, reader with a boundless wonder for the world and a curiosity about all the beings inside it.

You said it, Threep

Posted on January 5, 2023 by smellincoffee

Yes, this is a real book. It’s in an Alabama e-book consortium’s catalog. I’m tempted to check it out just so I can read it and post a mercilessly mocking review.

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The World-Ending Fire

Posted on January 3, 2023 by smellincoffee

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry© 2018 Wendell Berry and Paul Kingsnorth360 pages What a way to finish 2022, in reading this superb collection of Wendell Berry’s essays.  Berry has published no small amount of essay collections himself, and … Continue reading →

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Tuesday tease: habits

Posted on January 3, 2023 by smellincoffee

Plus, Kindle books I forgot I owned. I have struggled with hard habits in my life. I have found these hard habits are only broken by harder habits. Nature abhors a vacuum, meaning I cannot just quit doing something in … Continue reading →

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God’s Promise

Posted on January 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Years ago when I was a ‘spiritual seeker’ and consuming all manner of spiritual-religious content online, from dharma talks to Catholic apologetics and Asatru podcasts, I found some sermons and choir recordings online from a Unitarian Universalist organization. They had … Continue reading →

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The Best of 2022: Year in Review

Posted on January 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Well, here we are at the close of another year – and what a year it was!  2022 will be one of the more unforgettable years in my life, opening as it did with me on dialysis and the sudden … Continue reading →

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What I Read in 2022

Posted on January 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, Rod Dreher Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren H. Lewis, ed. Clyde S. Kilby Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind, Anthony Esolen (Reread) It’s … Continue reading →

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Science Survey 2022

Posted on January 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

Science Survey 2017 | Science Survey 2018 | Science Survey 2019 | Science Survey 2020 | Science Survey 2021 The Science Survey, in effect since 2017, is a structured approach to pop-science reading to maintain a broad general science & … Continue reading →

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Predicting…Science Survey 2023

Posted on January 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

Below are my prospects for 2023. Although I purchased some of these titles already (those with an * ), it’s rare that my prospects list and my actual list are matches for one another. Cosmology and AstrophysicsThe Edge of Physics:A … Continue reading →

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2022 in other media: Music

Posted on January 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

Music I didn’t discover a lot of artists in 2022, but I was utterly obsessed with one and deeply into the other. I stumbled onto Morgan Wade via Youtube and have been listening to (and talking about nonstop to the … Continue reading →

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2022 in other media: movies

Posted on December 31, 2022 by smellincoffee

Favorites are in bold. Updated for the last time tonight… Movies Watched in 2022 1. Wild Target, 2010.  A dark comedy about a lonely assassin who is hired to kill an attractive fraudster and thief (Emily Blunt), but who instead develops … Continue reading →

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