Category Archives: General

Amazon just congratulated me for being a Kindle addict

Posted on September 6, 2024 by smellincoffee

In 2011, I posted some thoughts about why I had a dislike for e-readers, and my fears of what they would do to book culture in general, under the name “Go Go Gadget Literature“. Five years later, I sheepishly admitted … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday

Posted on September 4, 2024 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Disaster!, Dan Kurtzman. A re-read for me, a mixed oral/narrative history of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. WHAT are you reading now? The Dispossessed, Ursula le Guin. Should finish tomorrow. (I … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Teasday: Books Involving Food

Posted on September 2, 2024 by smellincoffee

Happy Tuesday! I took the weekend off from….most everything, including reading unless you count an audiobook (still tolerating Red Dead’s History), but now I’m back in the saddle. Today’s theme is books involving food, so I’m going to split it … Continue reading →

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August 2024 in Review

Posted on September 1, 2024 by smellincoffee

Well, happy September, folks. There have been a couple of mornings in the past few weeks when the temperature wasn’t already over 90(32) as soon as I walked out the door, so here’s hoping summer’s wrath is abating. Not that … Continue reading →

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Moviewatch, August 2024

Posted on August 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

Literally every movie I watched in August was watched with friends, which I think is a first.. Yojimbo, 1961. A rogue samurai wanders into a town and discovers that it’s divided between two gangs:  realizing that a lot of them … Continue reading →

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Wednesday bringeth a trio of memes & bookish games

Posted on August 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

WWW Wednesday WHAT have you read recently? First into Nagasaki, a memoir of a journalist interviewing Nagasaki survivors and POW survivors. Very dark. WHAT are you reading now? Just starting The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin, a buddy read with … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Memin: Book Blogger Cross-section time

Posted on August 27, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is posts that most exemplify ourselves, which is…er, quite the challenge when I have over 3500 posts from the last seventeen years available here. I’m just going to try to think of ten characteristics of this blog in … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name?

Posted on August 21, 2024 by smellincoffee

When I first searched my name in high school, I saw “crown” and was quite pleased, but later I saw it meant “crown of martyrdom” I was raised in a devout Pentecostal home, and when I was born, they named … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + A Book I Wish Was More Popular

Posted on August 21, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, “What’s a book you wish were more popular?” Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death was published in 1985, but Postman’s analysis of how modern technology, especially television, trivializes information and supplants it … Continue reading →

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California Diaries finale: bittersweet goodbye

Posted on August 20, 2024 by smellincoffee

Round One | Round Two And….here we are, at the end of one of my absolute favorite series. The third round is a bit like Return of the Jedi, in that we have really strong books plus some stuff that, … Continue reading →

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