Tag Archives: memes and surveys

A trio of teases

Posted on March 12, 2024 by smellincoffee

“When you set foot on an island without rats, the skies are full of seabirds. It’s noisy because of the cacophony that those birds are making. And it smells of guano and ammonia, particularly if it has recently rained. It’s … Continue reading →

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Wednesday blogging prompt: Nonfiction

Posted on March 6, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s blogging prompt from Long and Short Reviews is ‘what nonfiction have you read lately’. After an early-year start dominated by fiction, nonfiction is at last beginning to regain its usual dominance of my reading pile. It began with some … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday

Posted on February 27, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble-T is covers with things found in nature, so off to the science shelves I go. Et voila! Time for Tuesday teases! I have changed the names of many characters in this book, because most of those people own … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Teasing

Posted on February 20, 2024 by smellincoffee

I was starting to get the feeling there was a lot Sloane hadn’t told me. Blood pressure cuffs. Enchiladas. Tall, strange men who weren’t her fiancé. This was turning into a very intriguing book club. The Lonely Hearts Book Club, … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Things in Stories I Love

Posted on February 13, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is a love freebie. But first, teases! “The Camptown ladies sing this song, doo dah, doo dah. Camptown racetrack’s five miles long, oh, doo dah day.” “Shut up, Kurtis. Do you hear me inflicting my perverted folk fetish on … Continue reading →

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Teeesing Tooosday

Posted on February 6, 2024 by smellincoffee

After delving through them, I discovered three local history books, none of any significant value. I offered him £15 for them. He told me that he’d never been so insulted and that he was going to donate them to the … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Authors From 2023 I Want to Read More Of

Posted on January 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is authors from 2023 who were new to us. But first, a tease! CUSTOMER: Doesn’t it bother you, being surrounded by books all day? Ithink I’d be paranoid they were all going to jump off the shelves and … Continue reading →

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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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