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Boards get the ATK Treatment but it’s Boring-ish

Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings by America's Test Kitchen, Elle Simone Scott

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One more board book review because it’s birthday month and I found one in the library I’d eyed in the bookstore recently. I suppose it was only a matter of time that America’s Test Kitchen would get in on this trend, especially since the whole board thing has lasted more than a year with Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings. One of the main things I like about them is that the whole premise of ATK is to figure out not just what works, but […]

Last of the Lumberjanes

Lumberjanes: End of Summer Adventure by Shannon Watters, Kat Leygh

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So it turns out the Lumberjanes series has reached its conclusion with volume 20: “End of Summer Adventure”. This series has had ups and downs and I think the conclusion is a little mixed. On the one hand, the questions that really need answering are resolved. For example, what’s up with Rosie, what’s really going on in the forest around the camp, and what’s the spooky bad thing that got released a volume or two ago. But then again, the actual reveals are kind of […]

Yer a killer, Cliff!

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

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It took me a bit longer to read Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide than I’d figured initially. This is actually a pretty interesting and entertaining murder mystery where the mystery is not who dies or who dunnit; it’s how the would be ‘deletist’ (we don’t say ‘killer’ here) will achieve their goal while not getting caught and still observing the 4 main principles of ‘deletion’ (we don’t’ say ‘murder’):  Is this murder necessary? Have you given your target every last chance to […]

The Board Food Trend Is Still With Us

Beautiful Boards by Maegan Brown

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Birthday month is here again, and I’m going to try a new food-board book; Beautiful Boards has a lot of pretty pictures, and it’s pretty good at explaining how to get the actual looks. There’s a lot to like, both for the content of the boards as well as the set-up. There is some general guidance for putting together your own ideas, like for X number of people X amount of Y types of cheeses, general timelines for preparing and setting out and serving different […]

Batman the B!tch and other Running Stories and Rules

Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDugall, Eric Orton

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I got Born to Run 2 on sale on a whim and I’m glad I didn’t pay full price. This book gets judgey and inflexible; it does have some good looking recommendations for individual activities for training, and recipes for long run pre/post/mid run nutrition. The book is a running guide book and it’s set up to follow a core group of people who run and their journeys to find a way to do so that works (naturally it’s the trainers who wrote/inspired the book’s). […]

Kafka Goes Kaiju

Kaiju No.8 vol. 1 by Naoya Matsumoto

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It’s rare where you have a “I have a dream and I will win” under-dog protagonist who turns out to be special who has odds to overcome, starts towards that dream, and turns out to be in his 30s. Kafka (name might have suggestions I’ll get to) Hibino is 32, works in Kaiju disposal (someone has to clean up when the heroes take down the monsters), and has dreamed of working on the Japan Defense Force (the heroic monster killers led by Kafka’s childhood friend […]



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