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Top Ten Tuesday: Summer readin’, have me a blast

Posted on June 18, 2024 by smellincoffee

Summer readin’, happening so fast….today’s TTT is top ten books on our summer TBR list! If that title got a song stuck in your head, I’m sorry/not sorry. But first, the tease! “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines … Continue reading →

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Happy father’s day ft. one of my favorite videos on YouTube

Posted on June 16, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today is Father’s Day in the United States, and to celebrate I’d like to share a father and son duet from Johnny and Nick Clegg. Johnny Clegg was a groundbreaking musician who, in apartheid South Africa, creating several illegal mixed-race … Continue reading →

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AI Book Art Game Results (and alter-images!)

Posted on June 10, 2024 by smellincoffee

Last week I posted fifteen AI-generated images created by prompts inspired by books. Davida Chazan of the Chocolate Lady’s Book Blog won with nine correct guesses! (1) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. Pretty much everyone got this one. … Continue reading →

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D-Day: Remembering those who died that others might be Free

Posted on June 5, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, in which Americans, Brits, and Canadians landed on the beaches of Normandy and opened the Second Front and began reclaiming Europe from Nazism the cost of their lives. Death to tyrants. Here’s FDR, … Continue reading →

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Test your mettle: guess books from AI art!

Posted on June 4, 2024 by smellincoffee

Over at Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads, I saw a fun bookish game in which ten images are generated by AI, using prompts inspired by books. It was originally inspired by the same game at Bowl Owl’s Corner. I fool around … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books that Inspired a Strong Response

Posted on June 4, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is about books that provoked a strong reaction. I’m going to try to focus on books from the first ten years of the blog. First, though, Ye Olde Tuesday Tease. For [Antipater], the human being in action is … Continue reading →

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May Moviewatch

Posted on June 2, 2024 by smellincoffee

I’ve been dogsitting away from my PC, hence the delay in posting this… Sweet and Lowdown, 1999. Sean Penn plays a rival to Django Reinhardt.  Unfortunately, I liked All the King’s Men so much that Sean Pean is now indistinguishable … Continue reading →

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May 2024 In Review

Posted on May 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

May proved to be a charming and busy month for reading, and continued the strange trend of my reading more novels than nonfiction, possibly because grad school and a major work project. I did make some progress on the Science … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books We Hyped but Haven’t Read

Posted on May 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

This week’s triple-T is books we were over the moon to buy, but….haven’t gotten around to reading. But first, teases! Volcanoes, then, can be sites of encounter and performance, where history is made. Sometimes their eruptions are so dramatic they … Continue reading →

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Sassy galaxies & road-tripping the solar backwoods

Posted on May 24, 2024 by smellincoffee

This week has seen a little action on the Science Survey, as I read titles for the Local Astronomy and Cosmology & Astrophysics sections. First up, The Big Backyard is a short look at the outer reaches of our own … Continue reading →

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