Category Archives: General

Booking through Thursday: Current

Posted on September 23, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks: What are you reading right now? What made you choose it? Are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it? (And, by all means, discuss everything, if you’re reading more than one thing!)I checked out The Life of … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: Day and Night

Posted on September 16, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks:  Do you divide your books into day and night reads? How do you decide?Although I don’t think of books in terms of “day” and “night” readings, I distinguish between books I can read in public, or … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I’m Dying to Read

Posted on September 14, 2010 by smellincoffee

A few weeks ago I found a blog that does a weekly activity called “Top Ten Tuesdays”, but I haven’t yet managed to participate:  I’m still working on “Top Ten Books I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read”, and….well, it’s been … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (14 September)

Posted on September 13, 2010 by smellincoffee

I would never be so impertinent as to give the Lady Elizabeth only two sentences — even if it is Teaser Tuesday. What of Elizabeth then? She is a dark horse, and I do not trust her. She rarely comes … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (7 September)

Posted on September 6, 2010 by smellincoffee

Lo! A traveler from a distant land! I pray thee, sir, willst ye sit down and tarry with me a while? I shall regal you with  tales from mine own adventures in reading……no? Have at you, sir! He watched Chris … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (31 August)

Posted on August 30, 2010 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesdays are…epic! And oversized, but their subject warrants it. From ShouldBeReading, as ever. How small they appear from the long road that approaches them; did we come so far to see so little? But then they grow larger, as … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (24 August)

Posted on August 24, 2010 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesdays are sometimes ominous. Not quite as ominous as this. Consumed by flames, the torso crackled and the fat sputtered, and then as the skin burned away, the black, flat ribs of the skeleton were revealed, and then the whole … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: Reading Questions

Posted on August 19, 2010 by smellincoffee

From Booking Through Thursday: 1. Favorite childhood book?The Pigman, Paul Zindel. I probably should not have read it as a kid, but I did.  The book is the story of two misfit teenagers who befriend a lonely old man and … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (17 August)

Posted on August 16, 2010 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday again, hos– waitaminute, who’d he say he was?  “Sind Sie Frau Druce?” A man’s voice. “Yes, I’m Peggy Druce. And who the devil are you?” “Adolf Hitler here,” the voice answered.  p. 170, The War that Came Early: … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: Evolution

Posted on August 13, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks: Have your reading choices changed over the years? Or pretty much stayed the same? (And yes, from childhood to adulthood we usually read different things, but some people stick to basically the same kind of book … Continue reading →

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