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strange practice by vivian shaw

May 19, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Yeah for finding a new fun series! It’s fairly light, not perfect but quite promising. The basic premise is that Dr. Greta Helsing (daughter of that Helsing; yes, the one you’re probably thinking of) is a doctor for things that go bump in the night, like ghouls, vampires, vampyres, mummies, etc. She’s friends with Edmund Ruthven (yes, that Lord Ruthven), and as a result of a bad thing going on in the monster community, gets together a group including Ruthven, Francis Varney (a vampyr which is different than a vampire), Fastitocalon an accountant who is also some kind of demon […]

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5/19/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:31 |

Questions on the Nature of All Good Things and Ending

All Good Things by Emma Newman

May 19, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Why is Cathy suddenly a potentially powerful Sorcerer? Who/What/How is Beatrice? And what’s up with her rather pointless ending? Why is Lucy suddenly back with a big part in the story? There must have been a better way to give Lucy purpose or explaining her besides using the otherwise pointless Edwin, right? Why do we need to hear so much from William, and what’s up with his sudden need for total power? Was that scene with him and Amelia necessary? Why is there so little about the Elemental Court, and the history behind the Split? What happened to Rupert to […]

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5/19/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Lost in Translation or Indecision

Every Tool's A Hammer by Adam Savage

May 12, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

For the record, I haven’t finished Every Tool’s A Hammer yet, but I’m 99% sure the remaining 2/3 of it is not going to change my thoughts. I loved the original Mythbusters, as well as the recent Mythbuster’s Junior (I hope there is more of that). So naturally, I decided I wanted to read Adam Savage’s new book. You can tell it’s his voice, but it’s not nearly as entertaining to follow in print as it is in performance/action. The book can’t decide if it’s a self-help/how-to manual, biography, memoir, motivational book, or collection of anecdotes. It’s fun and interesting […]

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5/12/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:29 |

Untested Triple-Threat-ish

Indian-ish by Priya Krishna

May 10, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Personal current rule: I am not allowed to start working through a new cookbook until I finish with the current one. I’m close, and should be able to start a new cookbook by about mid-June. That hasn’t stopped me from building up a small pile of potential successors, including Indian-ish. This means that I have read through the book, but not yet tried anything from it. This book is really three things at once: an introduction to Indian cooking (both in terms of ingredients and techniques), a recipe book, and a collection of family stories. The book manages to pull […]

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5/10/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:28 |

Watered Down Everything

Fog Season by Patrice Sarath

May 10, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Just from the reading, I have a hard time telling whether or not Fog Season is YA or not. It really seems more YA but that’s not where I remember finding it in the bookstore. The case for YA is that it’s very character driven, the few adults present are villains, servants, or non-presences like mom Alinesse and dad Brevart. Also, the presence of romance, more a factor in this book than the first, is reasonably PG. The violence seems to be a bit less than the first novel, and it too is not especially graphic. There really isn’t much […]

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5/10/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Dead Dogs and Radium Girls

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum

May 5, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The Poisoner’s Handbook is one of those rare non-fiction books that reads more like fiction. The basic narrative follows the head medical examiner of New York City and his chief toxicologist as they essentially help invent forensic science during Prohibition. Each chapter focuses on the problems, mostly murders, that revolve around a particular chemical compound including chloroform, wood alcohol, arsenic, radium, carbon monoxide, and thallium. There’s a lot of chemistry involved but it’s explained in a way that someone who hasn’t taken the subject since high school in the late 90s can still follow. Most of the tension in the […]

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5/5/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Some Problems, but the Ending’s Worth It

I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly, JM Ken Niimura

April 28, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I try not to look at too many reviews of something before I actually read it, but usually skim through a few to get an idea of whether or not I’ll like something. I don’t always agree, but this time I did. On both the positive and negative. I Kill Giants gets praised for both its exploration of a child dealing with grief and trauma, and its narrative structure; but criticism for some characters and use of hateful language in a few places. I agree with all of it. I Kill Giants focuses of Barbara, a loner geeky girl with […]

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4/28/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Consolation Gaiman

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

April 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have yet to find a stealth-signed Neil Gaiman book in an airport. Maybe it’s just the places I’ve been lately, like Omaha, Nebraska, or maybe just my luck and not finding the right one (the signed one), especially since there’s currently some massive Gaiman book displays in honor of the new season of American Gods and the forthcoming live-action Good Omens. At the bookshop in the Omaha airport, I made an impulse decision to console myself by getting a copy of Coraline. Coraline is one the one hand classic Gaiman, but on the other not my favorite. I like […]

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4/21/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:24 |

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