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Meddling With Time Never Seems to End Well

Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back by Alison Wilgus

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Bingo 19: Font The font used in Chronin volume 1 is one of the ones that basically looks like a relatively clear print handwriting. It’s too consistent to have ben actually by hand though. Set a few decades in the future, time travel is now a known technology and certain history buff undergraduate students are being allowed strictly regulated time to go study their favorite time periods in situ/tempore. One such student is Mirai who has traveled to 1860s Japan just before a revolution was […]

How a wannabe Sherlock Holmes might live in an Online Dating World (no romance)

The Verifiers by Jane Pek

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Bingo 18: Minds A Sherlock Holmes mystery would count as a Mind-centered story, so why not a Holmesian wannabe? In probably only the lightest twist on the real world, The Verifiers imagines that basically the only way people can find prospective partners in via online services that guide your choices based on compatibility; no one seems to think there’s any other way. The rise in such services also brings doubts about how honest your potential spouse has been about their profile or who they really […]

‘Grilled Cheese’ sounds more appealing the ‘Fried Cheese’ Sandwich

The Great Grilled Cheese Book by Eric Greenspan

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Bingo 17: Funky The Great Grilled Cheese Book contains some funk; funky cheese (I’m thinking the ‘blue cheese’ chapter, and kind of a relaxed funk (as in the music style) vibe in general. I know the author, Chef Eric Greenspan, from tv, and he seems like the chill sort of guy who would (and did) put together something that is more like guidelines as opposed to strict recipes. So, onto the cheese. Probably the coolest thing in the whole book is a recipe for diy […]

If Chuck Tingle Did Graffiti

Bansky: Completed by Carol Diehl

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Bingo 16: Cold A lot of Banksy: Completed is about how the art world establishment looks down on Banksy and his popularity with the general public; the whole thing is almost more of a manifesto in defense of the popular as it is an introduction to the graffiti artist and his work. A good chunk of the middle of the book is less about Banksy and more about the art world and art critics who have given this type of art and the people who […]

New Old Food

New Native Kitchen by Chef Freddie Bitsoie, James O. Fraioli

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Bingo 15: Bird There’s really only two birds in New Native Kitchen, and it’s the three places duck gets mentioned and a handful of chicken recipes. I would also say that the phrase “birds of a feather” applies here because it is intended to introduce people to Indigenous cultures from across the country (sort of ironic but not in a bad way), and there’s a lot of emphasis on the importance of community, which given that this is a cookbook, is not that surprising. Although […]

A More Interesting Way to Do Hogwarts

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu

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Bingo 14: Snake Quick notice: because Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments is new acquisition at my local library, it had a shorter checkout period with no renewal so I had to give it back before getting to write about it; I may not be as totally sure of certain details as a result. The snake theme actually works on more than one level here because there is indeed a hospital and mysterious affliction that is affecting school boys in the magical community, and Ropa gets […]



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