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It’s really amazing that humanity has lasted as long as it has

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

February 4, 2020 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

…because damn do we like to put some dangerous stuff into our bodies and environments. Herman tackles a few different aspects of poisoning through the centuries here, with a focus on European royals. She starts with intentional poisonings —  apparently people have been poisoning each other since time began. The ancients preferred using deadly plants (belladonna, foxglove, hemlock) while medieval and Victorian courts tended more towards heavy metals (arsenic, antimony, even gold). Poisonings were so rampant that possible targets relied on all sorts of methods […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Eleanor Herman

badkittyuno's CBR12 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Eleanor Herman ·
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A must-have for your bug-out bag

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell

February 4, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

“How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?” That’s the question that Dartnell aims to answer in The Knowledge, and (without testing it myself), he seems to do a damn good job. This book has a LOT of information in it. Not only does it prepare you to rebuild society, but it gives you an excellent history lesson on how humanity has figured out what we have so far. “The most valuable part of our flying start is knowledge. That’s the short cut […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Lewis Dartnell

badkittyuno's CBR12 Review No:25 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Lewis Dartnell ·
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“I’m just wondering what the point is.” “Well, that’s the real question, isn’t it?”

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

February 4, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

This book centers on a non-binary person, and a lot of the book felt…instructional. But in a good way. It seemed to speak directly to me: this is how you handle a situation like this. This is how you respond when a person says this to you. This is what to do to be an ally. I don’t know how it would come across to someone who is non-binary, but as a cisgender woman who wants to be supportive in any way possible, I found a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: mason deaver

badkittyuno's CBR12 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: mason deaver ·
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“How many people has this hotel eaten?”

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

February 4, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

This was an interesting, if slightly uneven, read — it gripped me right from the start. “Maybe that’s what he reminds her of: they are both full of dark corners, odd places, possibly ghosts.” 15 years ago, a 12 year old Minnie Graves witnesses something terrible at the Bellweather Hotel after her older sister’s wedding: a murder-suicide of a bride and groom. In present day, Minnie has returned — along with hundreds of students and teachers. The Bellweather, still clinging to its former glory days, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: kate racculia

badkittyuno's CBR12 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: kate racculia ·
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“All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person.”

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

January 29, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

This was interesting, although I enjoyed her follow up (Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death) a bit more. In From Here to Eternity, Doughty travels to different areas of the United States and then the world to see how different cultures mourn their dead. There’s a wide variety of locales — a funeral pyre in Colorado, a sky burial in Nepal, a massive collection of urns in Japan. Throughout her travels, she discusses how very messed up the […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Caitlin Doughty

badkittyuno's CBR12 Review No:22 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: Caitlin Doughty ·
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The novel equivalents of Hallmark movies

The Lost Husband by Katherine Center

Royal Holiday (The Wedding Date #4) by Jasmine Guillory

January 29, 2020 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

(3 stars) The Lost Husband by Katherine Center It’s not set at Christmas time, but that’s pretty close. Goats instead of dogs, though. “Anything was possible. Everything was uncertain. But I knew one thing for sure: I’d bounced back before, and I would do it again and again and again. Because that’s the only choice there is. And as many things as I still had to lose, I had just as many more left to find.” Libby and her two small children have been living […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: jasmine guillory, Katherine Center

badkittyuno's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: jasmine guillory, Katherine Center ·
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