Tag Archives: Teaser Tuesday

Tis’ Tuesday, Tis’ Teasing Time

Posted on November 22, 2022 by smellincoffee

“I guess the best way to tell the story of how I glued myself to the wall of my house, of how such a thing could even happen, is to tell it chronologically. Otherwise, I might appear stupid. But if … Continue reading →

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Oh, hai, it’s Tuesday

Posted on November 15, 2022 by smellincoffee

Two Teases today! When we’re on the digital tether, she says, we’re not fully present in either our virtual or our physical life. Also, we’re not fooling anyone. Others can tell when we’re not paying attention, and it makes them … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Every

Posted on November 8, 2022 by smellincoffee

Happy Tuesday! Teasing from Dave Eggers’ The Every today, the story of one woman’s quest to destroy an uber-corporation that’s Facebook/Google/Apple/Amazon rolled into one. “Now I’m thinking if I can just kill emojis, that would be enough,” Delaney said. “You … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Go Set a Watchman

Posted on November 1, 2022 by smellincoffee

She walked down the steps and into the shade of a live oak. She put her arm out and leaned against the trunk. She looked at Maycomb, and her throat tightened: Maycomb was looking back at her. Go away, the … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Bombast

Posted on October 26, 2022 by smellincoffee

…..wait a tic, it’s not Tuesday. Oh, well. Today’s teaser comes from Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert, about the government’s efforts to convince Nevadans that dropping nukes on a regular basis a half-hour’s drive from their homes was hunky-dory. … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: An innocent man in the arms of a redhead

Posted on October 18, 2022 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesday is a homeless meme adopted by me in which we share excerpts from our current reads. I stumbled upon a seriously entertaining novel in which George Custer survives the ambush at Little Big Horn and becomes a gun … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Unstitched

Posted on October 10, 2022 by smellincoffee

This week’s Teaser Tuesday is from Brett Ann Stanciu’s Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction and How People and Communities Can Heal. I haven’t posted a review for it yet, but it was powerful. “Would you say you now … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday & Teaser Tuesday

Posted on October 3, 2022 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Favorite Bookstores”, or “Bookstores You’d Like to Visit”. As a child of rural post big-box America, I’ve only ever known places like Bookland, Books-A-Million, etc, and until recently could only visit ‘real’ bookstores while … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Places in Books I’d Want to Visit

Posted on February 26, 2019 by smellincoffee

This week Top Ten Tuesday is asking us to share places from books we’d like to visit.  Allllllllllllllll aboard! 1. Hogwart’s 2. Al’s Diner with a Portal to 1958, a la 11/22/1968 Obviously this one is immediately on my mind … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books of 2018, So Far

Posted on July 10, 2018 by smellincoffee

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Artsy Reader Girl, is the best books we’ve read in 2018. In order of my reading them… Star Trek the Fall: Ceremony of Losses, David Mack Poetry Night at the Ballpark, Bill … Continue reading →

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