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

Love Among the Chickens

Posted on April 24, 2018 by smellincoffee

Love Among the Chickens© 1906 P.G. Wodehouse150 pages “He’s a very young gentlemen, sir,” said Mrs. Medley, in vague defense of her top room.“And it’s highly improbable,” said Garnet, “that he will ever grow old, if he repeats his last … Continue reading →

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Encompassing Flagstaff: Atop Mars’ Hill

Posted on April 23, 2018 by smellincoffee

Overlooking the fair city of Flagstaff is Lowell Observatory, perched atop Mars Hill.  The founder of the Observatory, Percival Lowell, believed based on changing observations of the planet, that it was occupied by a technologically adept civilization, one which had … Continue reading →

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For he’s a jolly good fellow

Posted on April 23, 2018 by smellincoffee

I’m a regular irregular patron of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a theater in Montgomery which always includes a few of the Bard’s works in their annual production season.  In the foyer of the theater stands a statue of Shakespeare, and … Continue reading →

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Encompassing Flagstaff: Flagstaff Itself

Posted on April 22, 2018 by smellincoffee

For my return to the Southwest I’d intended to land in Santa Fe, enjoy that beautiful city again, and then venture north toward Taos and the borderlands between the states of the ‘four corners’.  Instead, however, in early October I … Continue reading →

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Encompassing Flagstaff: Ruins of the Ancients

Posted on April 20, 2018 by smellincoffee

If I regretted one aspect of my visit to New Mexico back in 2016, it was forgetting or not having time to visit the remains of any native American dwellings. I made visiting a few sites a priority this time,  … Continue reading →

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A Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England

Posted on April 19, 2018 by smellincoffee

A Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England© 2014 Ian Mortimer415 pages Previously Ian Mortimer has offered readers with access to a time machine a handbook for medieval England. Perhaps mystery plays based on Scripture are not your interest, however, and you’d … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Britain

Posted on April 16, 2018 by smellincoffee

History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol 1: The Birth of Britain521 pages© 1956 Sir Winston Churchill I’ve been reading from Sir Winston Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples the last few Read of Englands, but didn’t previously have … Continue reading →

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I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

Posted on April 15, 2018 by smellincoffee

Hello, dear readers! For the past week I’ve secretly been running around northern Arizona, leaving you with some scheduled posts in my absence.  I’m afraid I’ve read sod all in the last week, as after busy days hiking in the … Continue reading →

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A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War

Posted on April 12, 2018 by smellincoffee

A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War © 2014 Joseph Loconte 256 pages When some future Gibbon writes of the Decline and Fall of Western Civilization, he will have to devote a great deal of attention to the Great … Continue reading →

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Further Up and Further In

Posted on April 10, 2018 by smellincoffee

Further Up and Further In: Understanding Narnia © 2018 Joseph Pearce 200 pages ”The further up and the further in you go, the bigger everything gets.” – The Last Battle Christendom and Narnia are never far removed from one another, … Continue reading →

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