Tag Archives: Teaser Tuesday

Teasin’ Tuesday and June 2025 in Review

Gloriosky, is it July already? June is gone, and with it, half of 2025. Today I’m going to combine my monthly wrap-up with Tuesday meming — first the tease, then the top ten! Teaser Tuesday The strongest version of a … Continue reading

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Top Ten Tuesday

Today’s TTT is “Top Ten Books Anticipated Releasing in 2025”, which doesn’t work for me because I don’t really follow potential publishing unless it’s an author I stalk or it’s Star Trek related. So, here’s a tease or two for … Continue reading

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Top Ten Summer To-Reads

Today’s treble T is our summer booklists, which prompts me to first take a look back at my spring list. Boy, did I not do well: to borrow from baseball, I only hit .400. (Actually, in baseball that would be … Continue reading

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Top Ten “Bookish Wishes”

Today’s theme is supposed to be about our book wishlists — i.e. books we want to buy or receive — but I’m going to play with the theme a bit. Recently the ladyfriend and I were trapped in a bookstore … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesday & the Books of Summer

Today’s TTT is a summer-themed freebie. But first, the tease! “Which one is that, [the passive voice]?” said Ortegas. She looked at her colleagues. “What? It’s a reasonable question. Not everyone carries this information around in their head.”“‘Ortegas flies the … Continue reading

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Teaser Tuesday & WWW Wednesday

ALTOSTRATUS is a bit of a boring cloud. Sorry if that sounds mean, but its featureless, overcast sky just hangs around, with little to say for itself. The most exciting thing Altostratus ever does is lightly drizzle. (Cloudspotting for Beginners) … Continue reading

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Top Ten Book Featuring Travel

And as usual, by top ten I mean “the first ten that occurred to me”. But first, the customary tease: The U.S. military is also a “self-licking ice cream cone,” as American GIs called it in Vietnam, dedicated to its … Continue reading

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Top TenWays My Blogging Style has Changed

Today’s TTT is ways our blogging or review style has changed over the years. I’ve been book-blogging for nearly twenty years — 18 next week — so I’m sure there’s been a lot of changes. I’m not sure, though, that … Continue reading

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Top Ten Alabama Authors

Today’s TTT is authors who live in my state/region! But first, a tease: Hit `em where they ain’t, run when you really shouldn’t, keep going when you ought to stop. It was the modern age and his game was the … Continue reading

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Books that Surprised Me & Teaser Tuesday

Today’s treble T is books that surprised us. But first, a trio of teases from…various CJ Box books. “You don’t want to give mixed up with them,” Joe said. “They’re bitter and they’re well armed and they hate the feds.”“They … Continue reading

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