Category Archives: General

Top Ten Tuesday: Barry and Joey solve a mystery

Posted on August 8, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday comes from Hope Never Dies, in which Barack Obama and Joe Biden get together to solve a mystery involving a dead Amtrak conductor. Yes, really. It’s goofy but entertaining. “One call,” I said to my faithful … Continue reading →

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Wednesday blogging prompt: a job I’d be bad at

Posted on August 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “A Job You’d Be Bad At“. I hate when my attention is demanded, especially by some electronic doo-dad.  Call it mindfulness for fixation, but I prefer doing one thing at a time: … Continue reading →

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A tease, a tease, a Tues-day tease…

Posted on August 1, 2023 by smellincoffee

From The Last Republicans: Afterward, the president-elect, Barbara, George W., Laura, and Barbara and Jenna boarded Air Force One to return to Washington. If Barbara Bush had any glamorous illusions about her new station as first lady in waiting, they … Continue reading →

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Wednesday blogging prompt and song of sixes

Posted on July 26, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s blogging prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “A Job I’d Be Good At”, which is…pretty easy. I’ve been told on multiple occasions in the past twenty years that I’d make a good monk, which is….not surprising given my … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Teaseday

Posted on July 25, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is the last ten books we DNFed, but I’m picky about the books I pick up and don’t DNF very often. So, I’m going to wander off the reservation a bit and go with “The Last Ten Books … Continue reading →

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Blast from the Past: NINETIES KIDLIT WEEK!

Posted on July 24, 2023 by smellincoffee

Featured so far:The Henry Huggins / Beezus and Ramona Quimby booksThe Matthew Martin series by Paula DanzingerThe Boxcar ChildrenGoosebumps Welcome to a special week here at Reading Freely, in which I’m going to be revisiting some of the books I … Continue reading →

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Forever Young

Posted on July 20, 2023 by smellincoffee

If ever the title “Mr. Astronaut” was given out, it would not go to John Glenn, despite his being the posterboy of Mercury; it wouldn’t even go to Neil Armstrong, who fifty-four years ago today became the first human to … Continue reading →

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LAS prompt: fun facts

Posted on July 19, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is an interesting fact the blogger knows. In keeping with this week’s Space Camp theme, I’m going to throw some astronaut trivia atcha! And so, some astronaut fun facts from previous and current … Continue reading →

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Top Ten One-Word Titles

Posted on July 18, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s top ten list from the Artsy Reader Girl is one-word titles, so I’m going to look back at the first three years of this blog to check out what I was reading back then. These from 2007 – 2009 … Continue reading →

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SPACE CAMP!!!!

Posted on July 17, 2023 by smellincoffee

Two years ago I decided to celebrate the anniversary of the lunar landing on July 20, 1969, with a week devoted to astronaut memoirs and space race histories. I enjoyed that so much I repeated it, and now here I … Continue reading →

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