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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.

The Calculating Stars

Posted on September 5, 2024 by smellincoffee

The night is young and you’re so beautiful, can’t we get into the swing of – what was THAT?! The Calculating Stars opens with a rocket scientist and a math genius/former WASP pilot having a romantic night in the mountains, … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday

Posted on September 4, 2024 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Disaster!, Dan Kurtzman. A re-read for me, a mixed oral/narrative history of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. WHAT are you reading now? The Dispossessed, Ursula le Guin. Should finish tomorrow. (I … Continue reading →

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Disaster!

Posted on September 3, 2024 by smellincoffee

I stumbled upon this title nearly twenty years ago while touring my community college’s library and checking out what it had to offer. I found a couple of titles (Disaster! and Good Life in Hard Times: San Francisco’s Twenties and … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Teasday: Books Involving Food

Posted on September 2, 2024 by smellincoffee

Happy Tuesday! I took the weekend off from….most everything, including reading unless you count an audiobook (still tolerating Red Dead’s History), but now I’m back in the saddle. Today’s theme is books involving food, so I’m going to split it … Continue reading →

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August 2024 in Review

Posted on September 1, 2024 by smellincoffee

Well, happy September, folks. There have been a couple of mornings in the past few weeks when the temperature wasn’t already over 90(32) as soon as I walked out the door, so here’s hoping summer’s wrath is abating. Not that … Continue reading →

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Moviewatch, August 2024

Posted on August 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

Literally every movie I watched in August was watched with friends, which I think is a first.. Yojimbo, 1961. A rogue samurai wanders into a town and discovers that it’s divided between two gangs:  realizing that a lot of them … Continue reading →

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Wednesday bringeth a trio of memes & bookish games

Posted on August 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

WWW Wednesday WHAT have you read recently? First into Nagasaki, a memoir of a journalist interviewing Nagasaki survivors and POW survivors. Very dark. WHAT are you reading now? Just starting The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin, a buddy read with … Continue reading →

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First into Nagasaki

Posted on August 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

George Weller, a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, arrived in Japan only to be told that its southern islands were off-limits to reporters, dashing his hopes of being able to see what this new super-bomb had done to Nagasaki. … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Memin: Book Blogger Cross-section time

Posted on August 27, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is posts that most exemplify ourselves, which is…er, quite the challenge when I have over 3500 posts from the last seventeen years available here. I’m just going to try to think of ten characteristics of this blog in … Continue reading →

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Miss Benson’s Beetle

Posted on August 26, 2024 by smellincoffee

Margery Benson has had it. A heartbreak ruined her great passion in life, studying beetles, and for the last decade she’s wasted away teaching a subject she’s not interested in to children who are even less interested in it. After … Continue reading →

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