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Teaser Tuesday from Bad Religion

Posted on January 23, 2024 by smellincoffee

A tease from Ross Douhat’s Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. The way orthodoxy synthesizes the New Testament’s complexities has forced churchgoers of every prejudice and persuasion to confront a side of Jesus that cuts against their … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday Ice Storm Delay Edition

Posted on January 16, 2024 by smellincoffee

“It’s funny. No matter where you go, or how many books you read, youstill know nothing, you haven’t seen anything. And that’s life. We live ourlives trying to find our way. It’s like that Santōka Taneda poem, the one thatgoes, … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books to be Published this year!

Posted on January 9, 2024 by smellincoffee

 The Sher-dar madraseh is yet another sign that Islam in the Iranian world is like a woman’s plain chador worn over party finery, a cloak that covers, disguises, or incorporates much traditionally Iranian, pre-Islamic, Zoroastrian belief. This time, General Alchin Yalangtush Bahadur had let … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I Read in 2023

Posted on January 2, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble-T is top ten reads of 2023. But first, these important messages from Teaser Tuesday: “Your order, sir?”“What?” I looked up and remembered where I was. “Sorry. I was watching two people break into my home.”“So….a dozen assorted donuts … Continue reading →

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Teases! Lists! It’s Tuesday!

Posted on December 26, 2023 by smellincoffee

This week’s TTT is most recent additions to our book pile, but I did that for Nonfiction November. I’m going to diverge a bit and go with “Top Ten Books 2023 Added to my Goodreads Wanna Read List”. But first, teasing! “We’re not saints, … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Teasings with a bit of Christmas cheer

Posted on December 12, 2023 by smellincoffee

First, a tease from God Rest Ye Merry Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story. The book itself quotes a little poem published in a December 1862 paper. This happened one Christmas, I’m sorry to writeOur ports are blockaded, and … Continue reading →

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Long & Short Reviews: Traditions

Posted on December 6, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s blogging prompt from Long and Short Reviews concerns Christmas holiday traditions. Christmas, for me, always began the day either after Thanksgiving, or when I came home from school, and saw the shed door open. Although it was a lot … Continue reading →

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On the first tease of Tuesmas, my true love gave to me

Posted on December 5, 2023 by smellincoffee

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive GOLD-en RIIIIIINGS! (ahem) Sorry. ‘Tis the season. Here’s a tease and then the top ten. In order to become a swordsmith, Kevin had to be something of a Renaissance man: equal parts historian, artist, scientist, mathematician, and detective. Some … Continue reading →

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It’s the last tease of November, I’ll meet you at the station..

Posted on November 28, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble-T is “Top Ten Books Set in _________”. I haven’t thought of a topic yet, so I’ll edit this later. And now, the Tuesday tease! If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Reading Life

Posted on November 27, 2023 by smellincoffee

As part of A Week with Jack, I’m going to respond to a few questions inspired by C.S. Lewis’ relationship with literature. These questions were presented to the reader at the end of The Reading Life, an anthology of Lewisian … Continue reading →

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