Category Archives: Reviews

Book reviews, as well as Reads to Reels

The Wheels of Chance

Posted on February 23, 2017 by smellincoffee

The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll© 1896 H.G. Wells193 pages What an odd little story! Begin with one J. Hoopdriver, a draper’s assistant who lives for nothing but spare opportunities to ride his bicycle — or rather, to crash … Continue reading →

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Reading All Around the World?

Posted on February 22, 2017 by smellincoffee

A few days ago I caught wind of a project that took me aback with its ambition. Several blogs/readers, including Cleopatra of the  Classical Carousel, are attempting read books from across the world, either fiction or nonfiction. This is being … Continue reading →

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Up from Slavery

Posted on February 20, 2017 by smellincoffee

Up From Slavery© 1901 Booker T. Washington332 pages Up from Slavery is an hopeful reflection by Booker T. Washington on the future of black Americans and the American nation, as he reflects on the thirty-odd years since the abolition of … Continue reading →

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Drone

Posted on February 19, 2017 by smellincoffee

Drone©  2013432 pages In El Paso, Texas, the raging narco-wars between drug trafficking gangs in Mexico has bled over into American streets — claiming the life of the American president’s son.  Having run on a platform of balancing the budget … Continue reading →

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The Gargoyle Code

Posted on February 19, 2017 by smellincoffee

The Gargoyle Code: Lenten Dispatches Between a Master Dementor and his Diabolical Trainee © 2009 Dwight Longenecker 103  pages The Gargoyle Code is a modern sequel-in-spirit  of C.S. Lewis’ much-lauded classic, The Screwtape Letters, in which a senior demon mentors … Continue reading →

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Two voices, two centuries, one timeless truth

Posted on February 19, 2017 by smellincoffee

At once time Mr. Douglass was travelling in the state of Pennsylvania, and was forced, on account of his colour, to ride in the baggage-car, in spite of the fact that he had paid the same price for his passage … Continue reading →

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Fear No Evil

Posted on February 18, 2017 by smellincoffee

Fear No Evil: © 1988 Natan Sharansky437  pages Fear No Evil chronicles one man’s psychological war against the KGB and the entire Gulag system. Born a Jewish subject of the Soviet Union, Natan Sharansky wanted nothing more than to emigrate peacefully … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week: Conflicting Visions

Posted on February 15, 2017 by smellincoffee

On Monday, historian and author Tom Woods discussed the premise of Thomas Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions.    According to their discussion, Sowell maintains that there are two main political convicions: an unrestrained vision of man and a restrained … Continue reading →

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Week of Enchantment Video

Posted on February 15, 2017 by smellincoffee

Interested in seeing how Windows Movie Maker and Youtube worked, I “made” a video with 100 of my Week of Enchantment photos, set to music. Enjoy!

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Garbology

Posted on February 15, 2017 by smellincoffee

Garbology :Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash© 2012 Edward Humes288 pages Readers who are passionate about garbage — a description which includes sanitation workers, victims of SimCity, and ecologists, I assume — will find no shortage of books on the … Continue reading →

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