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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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WWW Wednesday + Favorite Things to Do in Winter

Posted on January 15, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s topic from Long and Short Reviews is “Favorite Thing to do in Winter”. In Alabama, we don’t get snow (not usually, northern Alabama just got a few inches last week), so I’m not skiing or sledding or anything. It’s … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Recent TBR’s

Posted on January 14, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is books recently added to our TBR list. I’ve got a few reviews lined up, but foist: here’s a tease! The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give a … Continue reading →

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Top Ten 2025 Releases

Posted on January 6, 2025 by smellincoffee

2025’s inaugural Top Ten Tuesday from the Artsy Book Girl is book releases we’re looking forward to in 2025. I don’t follow book releases unless a particular author I like has announced one (hence my knowing about Anxious Generation and … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books from This Year

Posted on December 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

Welcome to the last day of 2024! Hope you managed to do what you’d intended to this year! Today our topic from Artsy Reader Girl is top ten books we read this year. This is going to be a hard … Continue reading →

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