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Top Ten Favorite Character Relationships

Posted on September 12, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is “Top Ten Favorite Character Relationships”. Similar ground to 2011’s “Best Duos”. First up, though, a tease: “Hemmer, we’re in a place where basic physical laws can’t be trusted, and random things are failing on Enterprise. You’re sure … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Surprises and Spells

Posted on September 5, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is books that surprised us. First up. a tease from Jim Butcher’s Storm Front. I had several enchanted items around—or half-enchanted items, anyway. Carrying out a full enchantment is expensive and time-consuming, and I just couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Writing Prompt: Strange Loves

Posted on August 30, 2023 by smellincoffee

This week’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “weirdest thing I loved as a kid”. I suppose every kid is weird in their way — I knew one who loved eating Cool-Whip with a spoon right out of the … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Davy Jones’ Locker

Posted on August 29, 2023 by smellincoffee

Ahoy there, mateys! Today Top Ten Tuesday’s theme be “Water”, so we’ll be lookin’ at me favorite stories of the seven seas, both fiction and otherwise! Hope ye have your sea legs about ye! Oh, but first — a wee … Continue reading →

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Fun fax

Posted on August 23, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short reviews is “fun facts about ourselves”. (1) One of my favorite hobbies/passions is singing. I sing tenor in a church choir with the odd solo, but I especially like singing traditional British-American folk music. … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday & Teasin’

Posted on August 22, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is a ‘genre freebie’, and my first thought was near-future SF, but I did that one in spring. Whoopsie. Well, in honor of my current read, The Four Winds, I’m going to spotlight Historical Fiction, and restrict authors … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Stories from Totally Random Pairings

Posted on August 15, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is about characters in different books who should team up, which is …difficult for me given that fiction is less than a third of my reading. So, what I decided to do was give Bing a … Continue reading →

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Wednesday blogging prompt: strange dreams

Posted on August 9, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt is about a strange dream we’ve had recently. As I write this a week before the actual prompt, I’ve just woken up at three am after a series of odd ones that ran into each other as they … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Barry and Joey solve a mystery

Posted on August 8, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday comes from Hope Never Dies, in which Barack Obama and Joe Biden get together to solve a mystery involving a dead Amtrak conductor. Yes, really. It’s goofy but entertaining. “One call,” I said to my faithful … Continue reading →

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Wednesday blogging prompt: a job I’d be bad at

Posted on August 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “A Job You’d Be Bad At“. I hate when my attention is demanded, especially by some electronic doo-dad.  Call it mindfulness for fixation, but I prefer doing one thing at a time: … Continue reading →

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