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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.

WWW Wednesday | Moviewatch: December 2024!

Posted on January 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

Happy 2025, people! WHAT have you finished reading recently? I’m within an hour of finishing the Audible version of Strange Weather in Tokyo, but finishing it would give first blood to fiction and that will not do. WHAT are you … Continue reading →

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December 2024 In Review

Posted on December 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

Well, welcome to the end of another year. December began quietly here at Reading Freely, as I was preoccupied with a final project that I didn’t finish until December 10, though my month of research, writing, and designing culminated in … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books from This Year

Posted on December 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

Welcome to the last day of 2024! Hope you managed to do what you’d intended to this year! Today our topic from Artsy Reader Girl is top ten books we read this year. This is going to be a hard … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Favorite Movies Watched in 2024

Posted on December 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

I watched a ridiculous amount of movies in 2024. (189!) Here’s my ten favorites, rewatches being disqualified. Margin Call, 2011.   Unexpectedly compelling for a movie that takes place over the course of two days, all of which involve men … Continue reading →

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Science Survey ’24….finally….

Posted on December 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

As readers may know, every year since 2017 I have challenged myself to read across a spectrum of science topics to maintain a broad, general knowledge. Last year, I finished the survey early, in May, but this year science was … Continue reading →

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The Death of Mrs Westaway

Posted on December 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

Hal is a working girl in a bind. She had to take over her mother’s tarot shop after she lost her to a reckless driver, and while she can usually keep her head above the water weaving stories from the … Continue reading →

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An Unexpected Hero

Posted on December 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

It was a night like any other: Danny was on the stage at a dive bar, very nearly earning his keep but ruining it by digging at customers who got on his nerves. Then, one of them decided to teach … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2024, journaling, this and that

Posted on December 27, 2024 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished lately? Ehm, nothing. WHAT are you reading now? An Unexpected Hero, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle; The Death of Mrs Westaway, Ruth Ware. Also listening to Ron Swanson- um, Nick Offerman — read me Wendell … Continue reading →

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A Musical Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2024 by smellincoffee

Note: this is a scheduled post. I don’t plan on doing any interneting today, but here’s some music to deliver Christmas cheer should you need it! This is a mix of pieces my choir has done, as well as secular … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books 2024 Added to my Goodreads Wannaread

Posted on December 24, 2024 by smellincoffee

Well, look at this! A Christmas Eve top ten Tuesday. Merry Christmas, one and all! Today’s TTT concerns books we hope Santa brings, but I’m just going to go with books I added to my wanna read list on goodreads. … Continue reading →

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