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What I Read in 2024

Posted on January 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

January(1) Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our Lives, Chris and Melissa Bruntlett(2) My Selma, Willie Mae Brown(3) In Search of Zarathrustra, Paul Kriwaczek(4) The Exchange, John Grisham(5) Distracted by Alabama, John Seay Brown Jr(6) Days at the Morisaki … Continue reading →

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The Best of 2023: Annual Year in Review

Posted on January 3, 2024 by smellincoffee

Considering that I’m about to finish my first read for 2024, it’s high time for looking back on the past year and all that. At the close of 2023, I had three goals: to finish off Mount Doom, make solid … Continue reading →

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What I Read in 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by smellincoffee

Favorite titles in bold, reflection to follow later today or tomorrow. January (1) Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, Alan Stern & David Grinspoon(2) Think Like an Ecosystem: An Introduction to Permaculture, Amelia des Plantes(3) People … Continue reading →

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The Best of 2022: Year in Review

Posted on January 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Well, here we are at the close of another year – and what a year it was!  2022 will be one of the more unforgettable years in my life, opening as it did with me on dialysis and the sudden … Continue reading →

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2021, Year in Review!

Posted on January 6, 2022 by smellincoffee

What’s this? Another year gone? Well, on to the books! Most of my reading fell into the above categories, the remainder being small fry like fantasy, Star Trek, and world affairs. Most of my reading was nonfiction, no surprise there … Continue reading →

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The best of 2020 — in books

Posted on January 3, 2021 by smellincoffee

2020 was….a heck of a year. Hurricanes, pandemic, fires,  the existential dread of an election featuring a wide variety of creepy corrupt politicians, all with their own plans for spending other people’s money badly and killing people overseas on behalf … Continue reading →

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Favorite Nonfiction, 2010 – 2019

Posted on February 2, 2020 by smellincoffee

Okay, folks, this one hurt.  It would have been even worse were I aiming for a top ten list!    Interestingly,  history and science don’t fill the list as I expected; instead, books on society are the heavyweights, and many … Continue reading →

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Favorite Fiction, 2010 – 2019

Posted on February 1, 2020 by smellincoffee

I realize the “right” time to do this was in December, when everyone else was doing decade retrospectives,  but it takes a while to pore through ~2000 titles!    These are in rough chronological order.    Horatio Hornblower series, C.S. … Continue reading →

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2019 Year in Review

Posted on December 31, 2019 by smellincoffee

Well,  dear readers,  it’s that time of year again — for appraising one year’s progress and getting ready for another year’s goals.  I’ve had a fantastic year in my personal life  — paying off my student loans,  making huge strides … Continue reading →

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(Most Of) What I Read in 2019

Posted on December 30, 2019 by smellincoffee

(“Most” because I forgot to keep track, so this just has the stuff I remembered to put on Goodreads. ) Politics and Civic Interest The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Place in the World, Derek Chollet … Continue reading →

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