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Teaser Tuesday

Posted on March 11, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is top ten books that involve…….blank. I am also drawing a blank, so I’ll just do the tease unless another TTTer’s post gives me inspiration. “When you’re sneaking up on somebody, you might consider keeping your voice low,” … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Things Characters Said

Posted on March 4, 2025 by smellincoffee

More like “first top ten things characters said that I remembered”. But first, the Tuesday tease. “Do you have a birth certificate?”“No.”“May I ask why not?”“I was a baby. I wasn’t in charge of the paperwork.” (Camino Ghosts, John Grisham) … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday

Posted on February 25, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is favorite books set in another time, but I read entirely too much historical fiction to want to pore through and pick favorites. I sat facing a flowering bougainvillea that covered the terrace, a showerof pink blossoms on … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday

Posted on February 19, 2025 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Just yesterday, I finished reading One No, Many Yeses by Paul Kingsnorth. It’s one of his earlier books, set back when he was still more of an activist than a mystic-farmer-critic. WHAT are you … Continue reading →

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Top Ten More Books I Didn’t Review

Posted on February 18, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble T is “Book we didn’t review”. In 2020 we did a similiar topic, “Books We Loved But Didn’t Review”, and I gaze upon that list I realize: I still haven’t reviewed `em. Well, most of them. I did … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + Long and Short Reviews Prompt

Posted on February 12, 2025 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Um…Bloodlands, from a week ago. (I’m reading, I promise, I’m just reading too many things at once.) I also finished reading And Then You Die of Dysentery, but I don’t know if that counts … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Love Freebie + Teaser Tuesday

Posted on February 11, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is a “love freebie”, so I’m going to go with substacks I “love” reading. But first, the tease! Polar ice can take almost infinite shapes as it crystallizes, moves, and melts. The area around McMurdo Station exhibits this … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + Memorable Friends

Posted on February 5, 2025 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Conversations with Carl Sagan, a collection of interview transcripts; and I’m within 30 pages of finishing Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. It ends a bit like War and Peace, with an essay that’s … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + Thoughtful Quotes

Posted on January 29, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “Quotations That Make You Think”. But first, WWW Wednesday! WHAT have you finished reading recently? Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear. WHAT are you reading now? Multiple things, but I’m focusing … Continue reading →

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Top Ten New to Me Authors from 2024

Posted on January 28, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT celebrates authors we discovered in 2024. But first, teases! Fifteen miles in from Guadalcanal’s north coast, up a mountain trail that teases the climber with an apparently endless succession of hillocks, there stands a ridge that offers a … Continue reading →

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