Tag Archives: Teaser Tuesday

Teases! Lists! It’s Tuesday!

Posted on December 26, 2023 by smellincoffee

This week’s TTT is most recent additions to our book pile, but I did that for Nonfiction November. I’m going to diverge a bit and go with “Top Ten Books 2023 Added to my Goodreads Wanna Read List”. But first, teasing! “We’re not saints, … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Teasings with a bit of Christmas cheer

Posted on December 12, 2023 by smellincoffee

First, a tease from God Rest Ye Merry Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story. The book itself quotes a little poem published in a December 1862 paper. This happened one Christmas, I’m sorry to writeOur ports are blockaded, and … Continue reading →

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On the first tease of Tuesmas, my true love gave to me

Posted on December 5, 2023 by smellincoffee

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive GOLD-en RIIIIIINGS! (ahem) Sorry. ‘Tis the season. Here’s a tease and then the top ten. In order to become a swordsmith, Kevin had to be something of a Renaissance man: equal parts historian, artist, scientist, mathematician, and detective. Some … Continue reading →

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It’s the last tease of November, I’ll meet you at the station..

Posted on November 28, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble-T is “Top Ten Books Set in _________”. I haven’t thought of a topic yet, so I’ll edit this later. And now, the Tuesday tease! If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Thanking and Teasing

Posted on November 21, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is reasons we’re thankful for books, so I’m just going to go with books I’m thankful for for random reasons. But first, a tease. And yes, there are books reviews coming. Maybe in short round form, but they’re … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Authors I’ve Never Read

Posted on November 14, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT, hosted by the Artsy Reader Girl, is authors we’ve not read. I’m going to be straining a little here- my fiction reading is so specialized (almost entirely historical or science fiction) that I’m not really plugged into who … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday, war and body parts edition

Posted on November 7, 2023 by smellincoffee

This is a paraphrase instead of a quote, I’m afraid.. “What have they done to you? Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Armed Forces?!”“I think they must have killed all the others off, sir.” Hellfire, James Holland. Jack Tanner #4. But when … Continue reading →

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Terrifying Tuesday Teases

Posted on October 30, 2023 by smellincoffee

Mr. Bensington proposed originally to try this stuff, so soon as he wasreally able to prepare it, upon tadpoles. One always does try this sort ofthing upon tadpoles to begin with; this being what tadpoles are for. The Food of … Continue reading →

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It is Tuesday, captain….teasing frequencies open

Posted on October 24, 2023 by smellincoffee

Time for the ol’ Tuesday Teese. “I have to fly this shoebox into an electrical maelstrom, go looking for a scientist in a jungle where it never stops raining, avoid corrupting a primitive, Prime Directive-protected indigenous culture, and then somehow … Continue reading →

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Tis time for teasing tuesday

Posted on October 17, 2023 by smellincoffee

American eccentrics are great. They’re more sincere, unabashed and convinced in their madness than any other eccentrics in the world. And they say hilarious things like, ‘Rule number one is don’t freak out.’ They have two cars, two teenage sons, … Continue reading →

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