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Ravens are Nerds

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

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The Raven Scholar is actually pretty good; I was a little surprised because I sometimes don’t have great luck with the popular best-sellers, even in genre fiction. The characters are mostly what drive things, Neema and Cain are a lot of fun, both individually and together, Sol has some good personality for being a magical being fragment, and a lot of the rest of the supporting cast has enough definition that as an ensemble, they’re interesting to watch. Most everyone has some kind of tragic […]

My Meh Reading of Recent

My Vegan Year by Niki Webster

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With a title like My Vegan Year, you’d expect a book to either be more of a memoir, or a guide to seasonality. Somehow this book manages to be neither. It is a vegan  guide of sorts, with lists and  general discussion that might be useful, including pantry basics, produce by season (in the UK), and vegan lifestyle (like clothing and skincare).  It’s got some recipes too, but that’s  where things get random.  Each season has some combination of various meals, but there’s no clear […]

Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam for layfolks

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin

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Every now and again, there’s a picture of David Tenant that pops up on social media where he’s taking a selfie at a con, and there’s some guy just next to him with his nose in his phone. The caption is almost always some suggestion of what the other guy is missing being that close to a celebrity and not knowing it.  Here’s my version of that, kind of. I kind of remember the final time I graduated that the Commencement speaker was referred to […]

Lots of cat pictures and cat things

Cat by Leila Jarbouai, Hannah Shaw, Phaidon

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This one I picked up for the cover. Cartoon style black cat curled up, title simply “Cat”. It’s an art book, over 200 pages of cats in painting, photograph, wood cut, and objects over time. Each page has an image and the museum description (although not always where the original currently lives). There’s almost a little bit of everything, from graffiti, to an Hermes scarf, to a Garfield strip (had to wait a while for that one) to Nyan-cat to Warhol and Doré to da […]

Late to the Party and Leaving Early

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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For some unknown reason I suddenly started seeing a lot of junky AI images, reels, and posts about the ACOTAR series, likely something to do with the recent announcement of two more books to the series. I have never read this series. I figured I pick up the first one to see. Verdict: I can see how-why the series might get addictive, but I also am not planning to continue with it. A Court of Thorns and Roses is basic fantasy, and romance, with some […]

Humpty Doos and Swingles and Citrus History

Citrus: A World History by David J Mabberley

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Technically this is going to be a DNF, but not because I didn’t like it; I just ran out of time and library renewals. Citrus: A World History is an interesting cross between textbook and coffee table book. It’s got the pretty pictures, many from historical records, in combination with blocks of dense but detailed information about where citrus may have originated, different varieties that have appeared, and what people have done with them over a couple of millennia. There are sections on different eras, […]



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