Category Archives: General

OPENING DAY!

Posted on March 25, 2024 by smellincoffee

In celebration of baseball officially starting again this week, I’m going to be featuring books about America’s game. This will include a book about baseball parks and the American city, a baseball murder mystery, possibly a book on the science … Continue reading →

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Springing into Teases

Posted on March 19, 2024 by smellincoffee

Happy Spring! Today’s TTT is books on our TBR. But first, teases! But firster, Vivaldi! They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was … Continue reading →

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WordPress prompt just for laughs

Posted on March 13, 2024 by smellincoffee

I don’t usually respond to these prompts, but this seemed fun. First up, TV series: Star Trek Deep Space Nine. With the other Trek series, I generally pick and choose episodes. Yeah no, I’m not watching “Spock’s Brain”, “Code of … Continue reading →

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A trio of teases

Posted on March 12, 2024 by smellincoffee

“When you set foot on an island without rats, the skies are full of seabirds. It’s noisy because of the cacophony that those birds are making. And it smells of guano and ammonia, particularly if it has recently rained. It’s … Continue reading →

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Wednesday blogging prompt: Nonfiction

Posted on March 6, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s blogging prompt from Long and Short Reviews is ‘what nonfiction have you read lately’. After an early-year start dominated by fiction, nonfiction is at last beginning to regain its usual dominance of my reading pile. It began with some … Continue reading →

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Teasing Tuesday x 3

Posted on March 5, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is weird or funny things we’ve done online searches for as a result of a book. I know I do this all the time, but I can’t really remember any. Instead, I’m going to list….’cryptic phrases in my … Continue reading →

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AI killed the internet star, ooh wah ooh

Posted on February 29, 2024 by smellincoffee

Quoting from “Here lies the internet, killed by generative AI” on the amount of ai-generated trash that is now beginning to overwhelm real content, including children’s videos that parents use to babysit their kids. What will be the cognitive/developmental consequences … Continue reading →

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February 2024 in Review

Posted on February 29, 2024 by smellincoffee

February continued 2024’s atypicalness, with fiction continuing to outstrip nonfiction by a healthy margin. Granted, I was in bed for over a week, meaning novels, comedy sketches, and soup were my fare instead of histories, lectures, and fajitas, and even after … Continue reading →

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Movie Watch: February

Posted on February 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

Favorites in bold, rewatches excepting. GROUNDHOG DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!, 1993.  This is possibly my very favorite movie, its only competition being Philadelphia Story with Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn.  Bill Murray plays a jerk of a reporter who finds himself … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday

Posted on February 27, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble-T is covers with things found in nature, so off to the science shelves I go. Et voila! Time for Tuesday teases! I have changed the names of many characters in this book, because most of those people own … Continue reading →

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