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Teaser Tuesday (8 November)

Posted on November 8, 2011 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday is a bookish event in which participants share excerpts from their current reads, hosted by ShouldBeReading. “But then Paris was a continuing lesson in the enjoyment to be found in such simple, unhurried occupations as a walk in … Continue reading →

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Literature, meet music!

Posted on November 7, 2011 by smellincoffee

Tonight a group of history alumni from my university have been discovering a YouTube account called “thehistorians”, in which history is told in the form of pop music parodies. I’m overwhelmed with giddiness at the find, and there’s also some … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I Want to Re-Read

Posted on September 27, 2011 by smellincoffee

This week, the Broke and the Bookish are musing over books they’d like to re-read. 1. The Black Widowers Series, Isaac Asimov(Tales of the Black Widowers, More Tales of the Black Widowers, Casebook of the Black Widowers, Banquets of the … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: In Public

Posted on September 22, 2011 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks: Do you carry books with you when you’re out and about in the world?And, do you ever try to hide the covers?If I’m caught without a book, it was an accident — as I keep books in … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (20 September)

Posted on September 19, 2011 by smellincoffee

Today I snuck into the children’s section of the library to pick up a Riordian number, and while in the R’s noticed a book I’d not seen before. Naturally I checked it out and read it at lunch, giggling the … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books from Other Blogs

Posted on September 12, 2011 by smellincoffee

This week the Broke and the Bookish are discussing books which they encountered first through other blogs and bloggers. 1. Sharpe’s Eagle, Bernard Cornwell Reccommended to me by Cyberkitten of Seeking a Little Truth, this novel introduced me to the … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesdayish (13 September)

Posted on September 12, 2011 by smellincoffee

Well, it’s Tuesday in most of the world. Time for a teaser, then. Or three. “Get him out, sir? There’s two regiments there!”“So? That’s only eight hundred men. There are fifty-three of us.” p. 64, Sharpe’s Gold. Bernard Cornwell. Hogan, … Continue reading →

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The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Posted on September 8, 2011 by smellincoffee

The Big Rock Candy Mountain© 1943 Wallace Stegner563 pages “The frontier is closed”, declared the US census board in 1890. The boundless west has been fenced in and taken, but Bo Mason isn’t satisfied to believe it. There must be opportunities … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: Queue

Posted on September 8, 2011 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks:What are you reading now?Would you recommend it?And what’s next? I’m nibbling at several books at the moment: Will Durant’s The Renaissance, which is thus far just about Italian city-state politics;  The Illiad, interpreted into prose by … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (6 September)

Posted on September 5, 2011 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish event hosted by Should Be Reading in which people share a brief excerpt from their current read. “Most wretched Paris, would you shame us further? Have you not brought dishonour and grief enough on … Continue reading →

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