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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.

This is the greatest thing to hit Star Trek since Leonard Nimoy

Posted on August 29, 2023 by smellincoffee
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Killing, fictional and otherwise

Posted on August 29, 2023 by smellincoffee

Lately I’ve gotten into the bad habit of getting almost to the end of the book, and then saying — “Okay, not enough of that to take to work, I’ll start a new one and then finish the other one … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Davy Jones’ Locker

Posted on August 29, 2023 by smellincoffee

Ahoy there, mateys! Today Top Ten Tuesday’s theme be “Water”, so we’ll be lookin’ at me favorite stories of the seven seas, both fiction and otherwise! Hope ye have your sea legs about ye! Oh, but first — a wee … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 26, 2023 by smellincoffee
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Mythic Realms

Posted on August 25, 2023 by smellincoffee

“It’s our duty to search out anywhere the excellent that exists within culture, and to promote it — because the excellent is always going to be in the minority. Excellence is the particular, whereas crud is universal. We find only … Continue reading →

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The Worst Hard Time

Posted on August 23, 2023 by smellincoffee

I first encountered the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in the same history book, and images of houses covered by drifts of dust and those of men standing in line looking for relief or work are forever twinned in … Continue reading →

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Fun fax

Posted on August 23, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short reviews is “fun facts about ourselves”. (1) One of my favorite hobbies/passions is singing. I sing tenor in a church choir with the odd solo, but I especially like singing traditional British-American folk music. … Continue reading →

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The Four Winds

Posted on August 22, 2023 by smellincoffee

When the clerk at my local diner coughed at me to remind me that I was standing in front of her cash register, bill and money in hand, but ignoring her to finish the chapter I’d walked up reading, I … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday & Teasin’

Posted on August 22, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is a ‘genre freebie’, and my first thought was near-future SF, but I did that one in spring. Whoopsie. Well, in honor of my current read, The Four Winds, I’m going to spotlight Historical Fiction, and restrict authors … Continue reading →

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Woke Up This Morning

Posted on August 21, 2023 by smellincoffee

Ho! Waitaminute. This is a review of a book about The Sopranoes called Woke Up This Morning. It would be wrong to begin it without “Woke Up this Morning”. Alright, wiseguy, you watched the theme? Good. This thing of ours, … Continue reading →

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