Category Archives: General

Top Ten Book Settings

Posted on June 6, 2011 by smellincoffee

This week, the Broke and the Bookish are pondering settings. 1. Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft (Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling) Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy-warty Hogwarts, teach us something please! Whether we be old and bald, or young with scabby knees!  … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (31 May)

Posted on May 30, 2011 by smellincoffee

Last teaser of the month — here we go. “But for the most part I’m bound up in ideology the same as everyone else. Yet knowing that it’s there grants us some small power over ideology, and if you squint … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Beach Reads

Posted on May 30, 2011 by smellincoffee

Road trip! Vacation! Quick, I need ten books to pass the time with.  (From the Broke and the Bookish.) 1. The Rainmaker, John Grisham.A favorite hen I’m going anyplace, Rainmaker is thick yet small enough to fit easily in my jeans … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I May Have Or May Not Been Not Entirely Honest About

Posted on May 24, 2011 by smellincoffee

From the Broke and the Bookish: May 24: Top Ten Books You Lied About (lied about reading, lied about NOT reading, lied about liking/disliking, etc….dish your dirty secrets!!) 1. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel DeFoe and 2. Journey to the Center of … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (24 May)

Posted on May 24, 2011 by smellincoffee

Grief, where does the time go? Is it truly the last TT of May?  From Should be Reading, as ever. …well, no, we’ve one more. But just one more. I can sense the grumbling. How, are you wondering, do I … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (17 May)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by smellincoffee

I fell asleep reading a book, and when I awoke…it was Teaser Tuesday! The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb’s leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Miner Characters

Posted on May 16, 2011 by smellincoffee

This week, the Broke and the Bookish are covering…Top Ten Miner Characters! 1. Des, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction (Drew Karpyshyn) It’s a hard life being an abused miner’s son, forever trying to work off your father’s debt  and getting nowhere. … Continue reading →

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Welcome…back?

Posted on May 13, 2011 by smellincoffee

The past couple of days have been a little strange, not being able to read any blogs. While I don’t post every day,  there are a number of blogs (book-related and otherwise) I visit several times a day. Since Blogger’s … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (10 May)

Posted on May 9, 2011 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday again, from Should Be Reading. The past had a way of coming back up out of the ground. Always right below your feet. p. 199, City of Bones.  Michael Connelly

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Teaser Tuesday (3 May)

Posted on May 3, 2011 by smellincoffee

April showers (and tornadoes) bring May flowers (and Teaser Tuesdays). The stranded Riflemen might call him the new Lieutenant, and they might invest the word ‘new’ with all the scorn of old soldiers, but that was because they did not … Continue reading →

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