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WWW Wednesday & Memories

Posted on April 22, 2026 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, “A few happy memories from my life”. But first. WWW Wednesday! WWW Wednesday WHAT have you finished reading recently? Magna Carta, Dan Jones. WHAT are you reading now? Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier. … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Teases

Posted on April 21, 2026 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is ‘April showers’, which a challenging one. One obvious approach that comes to mind is books in which rain is a major element, either in shaping the plot or in creating an atmosphere. The problem is that I … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + Odd Hobbies

Posted on April 15, 2026 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short reviews is….odd hobbies! I think the best I can think of is my penchant for memorizing poetry and Anglo-American folk songs. Other hobbies like photography, hiking, PC modding, gaming, etc. are fairly pedestrian. I … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday & When I was a Kid

Posted on April 8, 2026 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is: what were you like as a kid? But first, WWW Wednesday! WHAT have you finished reading recently? The Shaping of England, Isaac Asimov. And, technically, Public Libraries and their Communities, one of … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday, 1066 Edition

Posted on April 7, 2026 by smellincoffee

That one battle had swung the pendulum. What the Saxons had won in a century of warfare against the Britons; what they had saved in a century and a half of warfare against the Danes; they now lost to the … Continue reading →

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This Joyful Eastertide

Posted on April 5, 2026 by smellincoffee

Christos anesti! The choir I’m in will be attempting this piece later this morning. I knew Turner was a good musician & singer from his collabs with Allison Young, but I didn’t realize how vocally versatile he was.

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The Sober Diaries

Posted on April 1, 2026 by smellincoffee

In the afterwords of The Authenticity of Project, author Clare Pooley noted that it was her attempt to capture in fiction something she’s done in fact: change her life through honesty. She’d done it by blogging her journey to sobriety, … Continue reading →

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March 2026 in Review + WWW Wednesday

Posted on April 1, 2026 by smellincoffee

After a vigorous opening for the year, my reading fell back rather dramatically this month before starting to recover with some short biographies and novels at the close. (The novels were Britfic, too, a nice segue into Read of England.) … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday

Posted on March 31, 2026 by smellincoffee

Without getting ahead of my story, let’s just say that nearly every planet and moon that ever existed in the solar system was consumed by something bigger than itself, and that makes all the difference in the world. Most planets … Continue reading →

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Moviewatch: March 2026

Posted on March 30, 2026 by smellincoffee

Given that I have class tomorrow night, it’s good odds my movie-watching for March is completed! My film viewing, like my book-reading, was extremely slow for the first part of the month and then exploded in the second half. A … Continue reading →

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