Tag Archives: memes and surveys

Booking through Thursday: Bibliophilia

Posted on February 14, 2013 by smellincoffee

This day, Booking through Thursday asks….what do we love most about reading? In picking up a book, I can throw back the curtain of time and communicate with a person long dead. My mind can engage with their arguments, study … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books to Read This Autumn

Posted on September 4, 2012 by smellincoffee

This week, the Broke and Brookish inquire: what are your reading plans for the fall? At the start of the summer, they posed a similar question, and looking back it seems I read most of the books I’d intended to … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I’ll Be Reading this Summer

Posted on June 19, 2012 by smellincoffee

As the mercury begins to persistently hit the high nineties, the Broke and the Bookish inquire: what are your summer reading plans? 1. For starters, I intend to keep reading Bernard Cornwell’s Starbuck Chronicles,  his military-adventure novels set in the … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Places I Follow Outside of Books

Posted on May 22, 2012 by smellincoffee

This week the Broke and the Bookish are taking a pause from books and asking: what NON-book related sites do you most frequently visit? 1. Forums (CivFanatics, TrekBBS) In my first year online, I quickly ditched chatrooms for forums. While … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (27 March)

Posted on March 27, 2012 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish event in which people share tidbits from their current reads. Play along at ShouldBerReading! “Oh, lord, I am so many things! A scholar, a priest, an eater of cheese, and now I am chaplain … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I’d Recommend to Someone Who Doesn’t Read Nonfiction

Posted on January 17, 2012 by smellincoffee

This week the Broke and the Bookish are asking people to recommend ten books to someone who doesn’t read a particular genre. Since nonfiction doesn’t get a lot of love in the blogging community — people read it sparingly if at all … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Anticipated Reads for 2012

Posted on January 2, 2012 by smellincoffee

At the start of 2012, the Book and the Brokish are looking forward to this year’s anticipated reads! 1. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes us Human, V.S. Ramachandran This was scheduled to be released in January … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I’d Like to See Under the Tree

Posted on December 20, 2011 by smellincoffee

This week the Broke and the Bookish want to know what books we’d most like to receive for Christmas. There’s virtually no chance of my getting books for Christmas, because despite being from a family of readers,  everyone claims they … Continue reading →

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Five Bookish Questions

Posted on December 14, 2011 by smellincoffee

Kelly of the Broke and the Bookish shared a quick book survey tonight, and I figured, why not? 1. The book I’m currently reading is Incognito: the Secret Lives of the Brain, by David Eagleman, which covers neurology and the … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Fun

Posted on November 22, 2011 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday! “A.Darell” would just be the sort of thing that she would have to put on all her themes for her class in Composition and Rhetoric–so tasteless. All the other kids had to do it, too, except for Olynthus Dam, because … Continue reading →

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