Tag Archives: Monthly Recap

August 2026 in Review

Posted on August 30, 2026 by smellincoffee

I don’t think I can finish The Unexpected President tonight, and even if I finish it tomorrow I’d be unlikely to post a review until September….so here’s a rare Sunday post! August was a dreadful month, weather-wise, with life-draining and … Continue reading →

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July 2026 in Review

Posted on July 30, 2026 by smellincoffee

While I’ll finish The Age of Eisenhower today and could wrap up Stephen Fry’s Odyssey tomorrow,, reviews for either before August are unlikely. So, let’s wrap up July in books! We travel ever deeper into the oppressive heatsink of July, … Continue reading →

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June 2026 in Review

Posted on June 30, 2026 by smellincoffee

Well, dear readers, we are six months into 2026. Time to look and see how I’m doing on my reading goals. One happy bit of news is that I found a new binge-able artist. The last years I haven’t done … Continue reading →

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May 2026 in Review

Posted on May 30, 2026 by smellincoffee

So ends the merrie month o’ May; the green buds are no longer swelling, but bursting into full flower. Summer is here, what I….lovingly….call the Great Sticky Siege. The outside world is quickly becoming not a place of warmth and … Continue reading →

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April 2026 in Review

Posted on April 29, 2026 by smellincoffee

What a month! Despite April being peak tornado season in Alabama, this year the skies were perfectly clement. Not until this past week, in fact, did we have any rumblings of tornadoes at all — seemingly all of our rain … Continue reading →

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March 2026 in Review + WWW Wednesday

Posted on April 1, 2026 by smellincoffee

After a vigorous opening for the year, my reading fell back rather dramatically this month before starting to recover with some short biographies and novels at the close. (The novels were Britfic, too, a nice segue into Read of England.) … Continue reading →

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February 2026 in Review

Posted on February 28, 2026 by smellincoffee

February was an odd month for reading, opening with another Box binge (this time reading through his other series, featuring a sheriff’s deputy turned private investigator) before drifting back a little into history. It was not a strong month for … Continue reading →

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January 2026 in Review

Posted on January 30, 2026 by smellincoffee

The first month of 2026 is now ‘in the books’ so to speak. In Alabama, winter finally came in and made itself comfortable — taking off its boots and growing to be a pest, ordering us to leave the water … Continue reading →

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December 2025 in Review + Moviewatch

Posted on December 31, 2025 by smellincoffee

Well, December was a heckuva month, that’s all I can say. I read twenty books this month alone, though quite a few entries were ‘short’ — I’ve been making my way through The American Presidents series, all volumes of which … Continue reading →

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November 2025 in Review

Posted on November 30, 2025 by smellincoffee

Welcome to Advent! While today is only the last day of November, it does close the liturgical year’s longest season — Pentecost, or “Ordinary Time” — and begin the story of good news again. This morning, my Adult Formation class … Continue reading →

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