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

Warpath

Posted on October 29, 2010 by smellincoffee

Warpath© 2006 David Mack339 pagesOn the cover: unknown model as Taran’atar, looking “dangerous, yet vulnerable, awash in the amber of Jem’Hadar blood“. I am dead. I go into battle to reclaim my life. I do this because I am Jem’Hadar. … Continue reading →

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This Week at the Library (20- 28 October)

Posted on October 28, 2010 by smellincoffee

Enjoyable week at the library, although I didn’t make progress in The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World as I’d intended. I wound up playing three games of Civilization III instead. I continued in my efforts to catch up … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: Skeletons

Posted on October 28, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks: What reading skeletons do you have in your closet? Books you’d be ashamed to let people know you love? Addiction to the worst kind of (fill in cheesy genre here)? Your old collection of Bobbsey Twin … Continue reading →

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Lost Children

Posted on October 27, 2010 by smellincoffee

I started reading regularly in Star Trek literature following the DS9 relaunch, and I stayed up to speed with it until sometime in 2005, when I lost interest. That was a rough year for me: I’d graduated from junior college … Continue reading →

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Bibliobloggers Index

Posted on October 26, 2010 by smellincoffee

Bibliobloggers I’ve been meaning to spruce up my sidebar for a while now and have decided to experiment with replacing the index of book-bloggers I read with the blogroll that updates itself, one that is limited to showing the five … Continue reading →

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The Imperial Cruise

Posted on October 26, 2010 by smellincoffee

The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War© 2009 James Bradley387 pages They may be sovereign countries, but you folks at home forget That they all want what we’ve got, but they don’t know it yet. (Billy Bragg, … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books for Halloween

Posted on October 26, 2010 by smellincoffee

This week’s Top Ten list is…well, just read the title. 😉 1. The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling Autumn does not truly arrive in Alabama until late October, for summer’s heat and humidity have a long life near the Gulf. … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (26 October)

Posted on October 25, 2010 by smellincoffee

And Teaser Tuesday has rolled around once more! Readers particularly loved it when Alice acted bolder than  a twenty-one-year-old  “girl” should, like when she welcomed the 1905 Fourth of July with a bang, going out to a car on the … Continue reading →

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Fallen Heroes

Posted on October 25, 2010 by smellincoffee

DS9 #5: Fallen Heroes© 1994 Dafydd ab Hugh282 pages On the cover: renderings of Avery Brooks as Commander Benjamin Sisko and Nana Visitor as Major Kira Nerys — although that expression makes her look more like Michelle Forbes as Ro … Continue reading →

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The War of the Worlds

Posted on October 23, 2010 by smellincoffee

The War of the Worlds© 1898 H.G. Wellsfrom The War of the Worlds with The Time Machine and Selected Short Stories, collected 1963.303 pages “Don’t run! We are your friends!“ No one would have believed in the last years of … Continue reading →

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