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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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Teaser Tuesday (26 October)

Posted on October 25, 2010 by smellincoffee

And Teaser Tuesday has rolled around once more! Readers particularly loved it when Alice acted bolder than  a twenty-one-year-old  “girl” should, like when she welcomed the 1905 Fourth of July with a bang, going out to a car on the … Continue reading →

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Booking through Thursday: Foreign

Posted on October 21, 2010 by smellincoffee

Booking through Thursday asks:  What is a book from a country outside your own that you love? One of my favorite books is the autobiography of Emilie Carles, called A Life of Her Own. A professor of mine assigned it … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (19 October)

Posted on October 18, 2010 by smellincoffee

It’s that teasin’ Tuesday time again! Tim was getting a bad vibe. Not a look-out-he’s-a-werewolf kind of vibe, just a feeling that the guy might be tedious.  The stranger said, “I jumped out of an airplane with my dog.”  On … Continue reading →

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Shelfari

Posted on October 17, 2010 by smellincoffee

Earlier this afternoon a friend brought the social community for bookworms (“Shelfari”) to my attention, and I found it hospitable enough to register an account for my use. I liked the idea of being able to survey a virtual bookshelf … Continue reading →

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