Category Archives: General

WWW Wednesday, TT, Tech Problems, and Fake News

Posted on January 22, 2025 by smellincoffee

I woke up Wednesday morning and my brand-new superduper gaming rig with nine colorful fans and a hum like a small airplane was unresponsive. No idea why, as it was working fine the night before — and into Wednesday, since … Continue reading →

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Trump: The Art of the Comeback

Posted on January 20, 2025 by smellincoffee

This business history / memoir is not something I’d ordinarily read, given that when my reading brushes business it’s usually in connection with something like food, energy, or IT. Howeverrrrrrr, since Trump went out of office and now he’s going … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + Favorite Things to Do in Winter

Posted on January 15, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s topic from Long and Short Reviews is “Favorite Thing to do in Winter”. In Alabama, we don’t get snow (not usually, northern Alabama just got a few inches last week), so I’m not skiing or sledding or anything. It’s … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Recent TBR’s

Posted on January 14, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is books recently added to our TBR list. I’ve got a few reviews lined up, but foist: here’s a tease! The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give a … Continue reading →

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Prompt: most memorable road trip

Posted on January 13, 2025 by smellincoffee

Oh, this is an easy one. New Mexico, 2016. Not only was it my first time on an airplane, and my first time out of the South, but it was my first time taking a vacation somewhere as an adult: … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday

Posted on January 8, 2025 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Sword Brethren, the start of a new historical fiction series about a man whose childhood home and title were stolen from him at age fourteen, forcing him to create a new life as a … Continue reading →

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Top Ten 2025 Releases

Posted on January 6, 2025 by smellincoffee

2025’s inaugural Top Ten Tuesday from the Artsy Book Girl is book releases we’re looking forward to in 2025. I don’t follow book releases unless a particular author I like has announced one (hence my knowing about Anxious Generation and … Continue reading →

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The Best of 2024 – Year in Review!

Posted on January 4, 2025 by smellincoffee

Without a doubt, 2024 will be remembered on this blog as The Year of Fiction. I am a nonfiction reader. Nonfiction has always dominated my public reading, from 2006 forward, and it’s never been close: usually nonfiction leads by margins … Continue reading →

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What I Read in 2024

Posted on January 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

January(1) Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our Lives, Chris and Melissa Bruntlett(2) My Selma, Willie Mae Brown(3) In Search of Zarathrustra, Paul Kriwaczek(4) The Exchange, John Grisham(5) Distracted by Alabama, John Seay Brown Jr(6) Days at the Morisaki … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday | Moviewatch: December 2024!

Posted on January 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

Happy 2025, people! WHAT have you finished reading recently? I’m within an hour of finishing the Audible version of Strange Weather in Tokyo, but finishing it would give first blood to fiction and that will not do. WHAT are you … Continue reading →

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