Category Archives: General

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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Teaser Tuesday (10-8)

Posted on August 10, 2010 by smellincoffee

I forgot it was Tuesday. How do you forget it’s Tuesday? Now this is Tardy Teaser Tuesday. (From ShouldBeReading.) So this is what it’s like to be dead, he thought, really trying on the idea for the first time. Funny. … Continue reading →

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First Read, First Love

Posted on August 8, 2010 by smellincoffee

BookingThroughThursday poses the question: What was the first book you remember reading? What about the first that made you really love reading? It’s lightening today, so I figure I can post something intended to share on Thor’s Day. In all likelihood, my … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (3-8)

Posted on August 3, 2010 by smellincoffee

Teasing? On a Tuesday?  But of course. From ShouldBeReading. Together with the carrier-pigeon, the rat was to become the most fabled animal of the siege of Paris, and from December on a good rat-hunt was one of the principle activities … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (27-7)

Posted on July 27, 2010 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesdays aren’t quite as bloody as French history, but they are as much fun. From ShouldBeReading. Poor France: it was roughly a hundred years since the country had been torn apart by the Wars of Religion; two centuries back … Continue reading →

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