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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.

Teaser Tuesday (15 May)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly book event in which we share excerpts from our current reads…or in today’s case, two recently-completed reads. Play Along at Should Be Reading! During the 1920s “stag nights” — gatherings at which hard-core films were … Continue reading →

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Catching Fire

Posted on May 9, 2012 by smellincoffee

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human © 2009 Richard Wrangham309 pages Cooking has created a great many fantastic dish throughout the centuries, but Richard Wrangham holds that the culinary art’s greatest triumph is us — humanity, for the advent of … Continue reading →

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Worlds of Ds9: The Dominion and Ferenginar

Posted on May 9, 2012 by smellincoffee

Star Trek Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Volume III: The Dominion and Ferenginar© 2010 David R. George III, Keith R.A. DeCandido(Trade Paperback) 352 pages The Dominion and Ferenginar is the final volume in the Worlds of Deep Space Nine series, and … Continue reading →

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Watching the Clock

Posted on May 8, 2012 by smellincoffee

Star Trek DTI: Watching the Clock© 2011 Christopher L. Bennett512 pages Time travel! It’s a staple of Star Trek. No crew among the show’s five series has been able to resist gallavanting around in the timestream, not even in the … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Favorite Teases

Posted on May 8, 2012 by smellincoffee

Top ten all-time favorite quotations from books? Talk about an overwhelming subject! I’ve decided to narrow the field a bit. Since I participate in another Tuesday book-game, Teaser Tuesday, and since it involves quotations, I’m going to post my ten … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (8 May)

Posted on May 8, 2012 by smellincoffee

“Under this system, an unmarried woman who offers food to a man is effectively flirting, if not offering betrothal. Male anthropologists have to be aware of this to avoid embarrassment.” p. 164, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human, Robert Wrangham Just … Continue reading →

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The Early Asimov

Posted on May 7, 2012 by smellincoffee

The Early Asimov, or, Eleven Years of Trying© 1972 Isaac Asimov400-500 pages Long-time readers know of my enormous affection for the good doctor Asimov; imagine my delight in finding this anthology of over two dozen of his earlier and previously … Continue reading →

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Astonishing

Posted on May 6, 2012 by smellincoffee

As if I needed another reason to love this guy. The above quotation is from Cosmos, “The Persistance of Memory”. Here’s another, from the book form of Cosmos.  Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Trader

Posted on May 1, 2012 by smellincoffee

The Coffee Trader© 2003 David Liss386 pages I never intended to return to David Liss so soon. No doubt, A Conspiracy of Paper was phenomenal — but I have two Bernard Cornwell novels just awaiting to be read! There’s something compelling … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (1 May)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly book-related event in which we share tidbits from our current reads. Play along at Should Be Reading! “I admit only in seeing beauty where there is beauty and finding it a sad thing when it … Continue reading →

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