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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 & Favorite Things to Do in Summer

Posted on June 11, 2025 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Black Badge #3: Ace in in the Hole, and SHELLI: MurderMind. Reviews for both pending. Actually, I’m writing this in advance so Ace in the Hole may have posted already. “Killing me won’t solve … Continue reading →

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Black Badge: Ace in the Hole

Posted on June 10, 2025 by smellincoffee

For untold years, the thought-dead gunslinger James Crowley has roamed the wild west doing the bidding of the White Throne – hunting wretched nephilim that prey on humans and subvert creation, like vampires. This was his reward for dying in … Continue reading →

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Top Ten “Bookish Wishes”

Posted on June 10, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s theme is supposed to be about our book wishlists — i.e. books we want to buy or receive — but I’m going to play with the theme a bit. Recently the ladyfriend and I were trapped in a bookstore … Continue reading →

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Strange New Worlds: Asylum

Posted on June 6, 2025 by smellincoffee

It’s been nearly two years since the season-two cliffhanger of Strange New Worlds, so thank goodness for Trek literature to keep us junkies out of withdrawal until July’s airing of season there. Asylum is a novel told across two periods … Continue reading →

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The Presidents and the Pastime

Posted on June 4, 2025 by smellincoffee

On October 30th, 2001,   President George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. It was a powerful moment, a symbolic step forward in recovering from the trauma of … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + Favorite Book Covers

Posted on June 4, 2025 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton. It’s now technically the biggest book I’ve “read” on goodreads, though a third of it was endnotes. (There are … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday & the Books of Summer

Posted on June 3, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is a summer-themed freebie. But first, the tease! “Which one is that, [the passive voice]?” said Ortegas. She looked at her colleagues. “What? It’s a reasonable question. Not everyone carries this information around in their head.”“‘Ortegas flies the … Continue reading →

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Alice, the White Rabbit, and Nixon: Short rounds, audio edition

Posted on June 2, 2025 by smellincoffee

That is not a “Go Ask Alice” reference, though I suppose it could. I’m kicking this week off with an audiobook short round. First up is The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, read by Scarlett Johansson . I reviewed the … Continue reading →

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May 2025 In Review

Posted on June 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

Well, so ends May, an extremely wet month here in Alabama, with most places receiving 10-12 inches of rain — the historic average being about 5 inches. I managed to watch two baseball games and one play (“The Mousetrap”, Agatha … Continue reading →

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Moviewatch, May 2025

Posted on May 31, 2025 by smellincoffee

Party Girl, 1995. Parker Posey is a dance hall fanatic who, upon finding herself financially strapped, decides to become a librarian.   This film is amusing from a librarian POV because she begins working in an early 1990s system that … Continue reading →

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