Tag Archives: memes and surveys

Tuesday Memin: Book Blogger Cross-section time

Posted on August 27, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is posts that most exemplify ourselves, which is…er, quite the challenge when I have over 3500 posts from the last seventeen years available here. I’m just going to try to think of ten characteristics of this blog in … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday + A Book I Wish Was More Popular

Posted on August 21, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, “What’s a book you wish were more popular?” Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death was published in 1985, but Postman’s analysis of how modern technology, especially television, trivializes information and supplants it … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Relationship Freebies

Posted on August 20, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is a freebie about relationships, so I’m going to just throw out the first platonic relationships that pop up in my head. But first, teases! (1) Battle-bros: Sharpe and Pat Harper. These two are great together. From their … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday

Posted on August 14, 2024 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you finished reading recently? For “real” reading, I just finished Star Trek: The Higher Frontier, a TOS-MOVIE era novel. I also read three books in the Marvin Redpost series for Blast from the Past. WHAT are you reading … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!

Posted on August 13, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”, which — no pun intended — is definitely in my wheelhouse. As longtime readers here know, transportation is a frequent nonfiction visit of mine, possibly because I come from a family of truckers … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday

Posted on August 7, 2024 by smellincoffee

WHAT have you recently finished reading? Yesterday I finished Damned Un-English, a novel about a fellow who joined the submarine service in the early 1910s and…er, just spends the novel talking to people about the big European war that’s looming. … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Series Favorites

Posted on August 6, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s theme is interesting: our favorite books from ten different series. Have I read ten different series? But first, a tease! “A thousand years! The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets will last forever, Gilbert!” “It will need a … Continue reading →

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Haunted house BNB? + WWW Wednesday

Posted on July 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

There’s a blogging event that happens on Wednesdays in which readers answer these questions three: Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, “Would you stay in a haunted house”, to which I say — sure, as I don’t believe … Continue reading →

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Teasing Tuesday

Posted on July 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble-T is things we wish _______ had more of. I can’t really think of a topic, so here’s a trio of teases instead. Oh, for those who were anticipating Blast from the Past II this week, I’m going to … Continue reading →

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Teesday Toose & Novels New

Posted on July 23, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is our favorite debuts by authors. I’m going to mix them up between new finds and old friends. ‘Why did you disappear, Teresa?’ She gave him an anguished look. ‘My country was suffering. To the Basques there is … Continue reading →

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