Tag Archives: Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday with all the Kennedys

Today’s TTT is “bookish wishes”, with an implication that we’re talking about books on our wishlist. I have far too many books to read at the moment as it is (and I mean active interest, like I keep wanting to … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesday, brought you by yet another dead president

“Christ, Jerry, isn’t this a wonderful country? Here we can talk about this and you and I can be friends, and eighteen months from now I’ll be going around the country kicking your ass in.”That, I thought, was a one … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesday

“When you talk to [John F. Kennedy] or see him you always have the impression that his big white teeth are ready to bite off a huge hunk of life. There is determination in his green Irish eyes. He has … Continue reading

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Top Ten Books From My Favorite Authors

Today’s treble-T is “Books By My Favorite Authors”, which is unfair but I shall do my best. But foist, Teaser Tuesday! Today Jupiter radiates twice as much heat as it receives from the Sun. Early on it would have glowed … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesday & CC Spin 44

Teaser Tuesday “If Aliens landed in Los Angeles, their first impression might be that Earth’s dominant life-form is the automobile. An obvious conclusion. When one gets injured, another version of that life-form shows up to haul it away and get … Continue reading

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Top Ten Bookish Quotes in re: the Whole Flower Thingummy

(Yes, I’ve been enjoying PG Wodehouse. How could you tell?) Teaser Tuesday “The one thing that saved me was that I always thought facts mattered. And once you think that facts matter, then of course that’s a very different ball … Continue reading

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Top Ten Tuesday:

Today’s treble T is a freebie, and my initial impulse was to highlight some booktubers I enjoy. However, embedding videos is always hit and miss with youtube, so I’m going to highlight recent books in my browsing history. But first, … Continue reading

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Tuesday Teases

Today’s TTT is ‘April showers’, which a challenging one. One obvious approach that comes to mind is books in which rain is a major element, either in shaping the plot or in creating an atmosphere. The problem is that I … Continue reading

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Top Ten Tuesday: Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination!

This will be an unprecedented post, as I’m combining a TT and a review of the book from whence it came. On the stage of Ford’s Theatre, Harry Hawk, facing upstage and bent over in mock civility, rotated his comic … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesday, 1066 Edition

That one battle had swung the pendulum. What the Saxons had won in a century of warfare against the Britons; what they had saved in a century and a half of warfare against the Danes; they now lost to the … Continue reading

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