Tag Archives: memes and surveys

A trio of Tuesday Teases

Posted on November 29, 2022 by smellincoffee

What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there’s no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight. Upgrade, Blake Crouch “Most people,” [The Old Man] had … Continue reading →

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Tis’ Tuesday, Tis’ Teasing Time

Posted on November 22, 2022 by smellincoffee

“I guess the best way to tell the story of how I glued myself to the wall of my house, of how such a thing could even happen, is to tell it chronologically. Otherwise, I might appear stupid. But if … Continue reading →

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Oh, hai, it’s Tuesday

Posted on November 15, 2022 by smellincoffee

Two Teases today! When we’re on the digital tether, she says, we’re not fully present in either our virtual or our physical life. Also, we’re not fooling anyone. Others can tell when we’re not paying attention, and it makes them … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Every

Posted on November 8, 2022 by smellincoffee

Happy Tuesday! Teasing from Dave Eggers’ The Every today, the story of one woman’s quest to destroy an uber-corporation that’s Facebook/Google/Apple/Amazon rolled into one. “Now I’m thinking if I can just kill emojis, that would be enough,” Delaney said. “You … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Go Set a Watchman

Posted on November 1, 2022 by smellincoffee

She walked down the steps and into the shade of a live oak. She put her arm out and leaned against the trunk. She looked at Maycomb, and her throat tightened: Maycomb was looking back at her. Go away, the … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Bombast

Posted on October 26, 2022 by smellincoffee

…..wait a tic, it’s not Tuesday. Oh, well. Today’s teaser comes from Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert, about the government’s efforts to convince Nevadans that dropping nukes on a regular basis a half-hour’s drive from their homes was hunky-dory. … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: An innocent man in the arms of a redhead

Posted on October 18, 2022 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday is a homeless meme adopted by me in which we share excerpts from our current reads. I stumbled upon a seriously entertaining novel in which George Custer survives the ambush at Little Big Horn and becomes a gun … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday & Teaser Tuesday

Posted on October 3, 2022 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Favorite Bookstores”, or “Bookstores You’d Like to Visit”. As a child of rural post big-box America, I’ve only ever known places like Bookland, Books-A-Million, etc, and until recently could only visit ‘real’ bookstores while … Continue reading →

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Ten Years of the Classics Club

Posted on August 18, 2022 by smellincoffee

The Classics Club recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and posed some questions to its readers. I began participating in 2015, wrapping up my first list in 2020 and starting a new one weeks later. My original plan with the Classics … Continue reading →

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Book meme remix liberated from CK

Posted on August 17, 2022 by smellincoffee

Cyberkitten recently posted a couple of book memes, and I’m borrowing questions from both. What’s the first book you remember reading? The earliest reading memory I have is a Sesame Street title involving Bert, Ernie, and some monster in the … Continue reading →

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