Tag Archives: Teaser Tuesday

Ten Books Bing and Bard Randomly Chose from my TBR

Posted on May 2, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is “ten books I randomly grabbed from my shelf”, but I wanted to see if the chatGPT version of Bing could choose ten random items from a list, so I gave it my 70+ strong TBR list. Then … Continue reading →

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Tuesday memes: narrators and fun-sized Messiahs

Posted on April 25, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is favorite audio book narrators, which is a bit of problem because I haven’t listened to that many. Listening to a book takes a lot more time than reading it, so I tend to only listen … Continue reading →

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Tuesday teases and lists

Posted on April 18, 2023 by smellincoffee

This is from Will Durant’s intro to his The Story of Philosophy. I’ve wanted to read this for ages, since finishing his Story of Civilization, and saw it on sale a couple of weeks ago. I won’t be reading it … Continue reading →

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Tuesday teases and lists

Posted on April 11, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Tuesday Tease comes from Falling into Battle, a novel following four young men (three midshipmen and one ex-midshipman-turned-Territorial) in the first year of the war. Today’s top Ten Tuesday is about books with animals on the cover or in … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: of natural beauty and human beastliness

Posted on April 4, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is our favorite self-published books, which is problematic for me given how few I’ve read. Disrupting the Rabblement is a much-mention, since it was the first Kindle title I ever read (using Kindle for PC), and … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Tease: The stuff of empire

Posted on March 28, 2023 by smellincoffee

From Waters of the World, by Sarah Dry, on glaciology, geology metereology, and climatology…so far. Only with the leveraging power of certain technologies was British rule in India even thinkable. Much has been made of the importance of railways, telegraphs, … Continue reading →

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Top Ten + Teaser Tuesday

Posted on March 21, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Tuesday teases come from three different books: one, a collection of extended quotations from Mohandas Gandhi; a book on the study of ice, air, and oceans; and a history of D-Day from a German historian. A man who aspires … Continue reading →

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Memes on Tuesday: SF and rebellion against horror

Posted on February 28, 2023 by smellincoffee

First up, Tuesday Teasins’, this time from Michael Warren Davis’ The Reactionary Mind. This week’s top ten list is a ‘genre freebie’, so I’m going to go with Ten Near-Future SF Tales. (1) & (2): Daemon and Freedom, Daniel Suarez. … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Shrove Tuesday Edition

Posted on February 21, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s top ten list is ‘Favorite Heroines (or Heroes, If You Prefer)”. I started doing that one and realized it was mostly the same as my “Top Ten Characters I’d Save the World With”, so I’m going to be rebellious … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday

Posted on February 7, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s tease comes from My Ántonia, by Willa Cather. On the edge of the prairie, where the sun had gone down, the sky was turquoise blue, like a lake, with gold light throbbing in it. Higher up, in the utter … Continue reading →

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