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Booking through Thursday: Borrowing

Posted on November 18, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday wants to know: Who would you rather borrow from? Your library? Or a Friend?(Or don’t your friends trust you to return their books?) And, DO you return books you borrow?Most of my reading comes from libraries, either public or … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Villains, Degenerates, Criminals, and Dastardly Cads

Posted on November 16, 2010 by smellincoffee

This week’s top ten list features the best of the worst — check it out at the Broke and the Bookish. Gul Dukat (below) is my favorite villain, but he doesn’t appear in many books. Presented in no real order. … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (16 November)

Posted on November 16, 2010 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday time! “You are only the first of the androids I plan to manufacture. It will take a large number of us to carry out Doctor Korby’s plan.”  KIRK laughed. Derisively, Brown thought. “One of me is enough,” he said.  … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: War Stories

Posted on November 11, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks: It is November 11th, known here in the U.S. as Veteran’s Day, formerly Armistice Day to remember the end of WWI but expanded to honor all veterans who have fought for their country, so …do you read … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (9 November)

Posted on November 9, 2010 by smellincoffee

This Tuesday Teaser is brought to you by the Hundred Years’ War (and Should Be Reading). He shot without thinking. Without aiming. This was his life, his skill, and his pride. Take one bow, taller than a man, made from … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books That ‘Got To Me’

Posted on November 2, 2010 by smellincoffee

This week’s top ten topic is “Top Ten Books that Made You Cry“, but in the interests of preserving my dignity I am changing it to “Top Ten Books That Got To You”. These aren’t the ten most emotion-inducing books … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (2 November)

Posted on November 1, 2010 by smellincoffee

Here for you, a trio of teasers! “Why, where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for dictatorship as ours! We’re ready to start on a Children’s Crusade — only of adults — right now, and … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: Skeletons

Posted on October 28, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks: What reading skeletons do you have in your closet? Books you’d be ashamed to let people know you love? Addiction to the worst kind of (fill in cheesy genre here)? Your old collection of Bobbsey Twin … Continue reading →

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Bibliobloggers Index

Posted on October 26, 2010 by smellincoffee

Bibliobloggers I’ve been meaning to spruce up my sidebar for a while now and have decided to experiment with replacing the index of book-bloggers I read with the blogroll that updates itself, one that is limited to showing the five … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books for Halloween

Posted on October 26, 2010 by smellincoffee

This week’s Top Ten list is…well, just read the title. 😉 1. The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling Autumn does not truly arrive in Alabama until late October, for summer’s heat and humidity have a long life near the Gulf. … Continue reading →

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