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Chocolate used to be considered a health food. Where did we go wrong?

Great Moments in Chocolate History by Howard-Yana Shapiro

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Cbr15bingo edibles (bingo) Back at the beginning of May, my younger son asked me what I would like for Mothers Day. I told him that anything related to books, coffee or chocolate would be nice. He hit two out of three with this book, Great Moments in Chocolate History, published by National Geographic (2015). Howard-Yana Shapiro is a plant scientist and chief agricultural officer for Mars, Inc. This is a guy who knows chocolate science and provides a lot of interesting facts in relating the […]

Being smart doesn’t make them good

The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean

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My husband’s brother gave him a paperback copy of The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science (2021) by Sam Kean. My husband read the book and enjoyed it, and it looked interesting. It was in my mind as a to-read book, but–as often happens–there was always something else to read and I kept putting it off. However, once Bingo got going, I was sure I could use it for something, which finally pushed me into reading it. […]

Who died and made you king?

Unruly: A History of England’s Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

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Cbr15bingo Europe I’m not sure how my husband got his hands on the official UK version of this book; the US version is out tomorrow (Oct. 3) with the subtitle as shown in the photo, not the subtitle on the UK version which I have put in the title bar. But he knew I would love it because we are both fans of David Mitchell from the various British panel shows he has been on. Mitchell describes himself as a comedian, and he is, but […]

Snapshots of a Spaceborn Few

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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This one is slower than the first two novels in the Wayfarers series. We spend most of the book on the Asteria, one of the ships in the Exodan Fleet, following the characters of Tessa, a (often single) mother of two; Isabel, an Archivist; Eyas, a Caretaker (of the dead); Kip, a teen who just wants to leave the Fleet; and Sawyer, who wasn’t born in the Fleet but is looking for a different way of life. The timeframe for the novel is primarily set […]

Interspecies Connections as the “Wayfarers” Series Wraps Up

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

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Like the other Wayfarers novels, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is essentially a standalone novel, though readers of the other novels in the series will recognize the character Pei. She is one of the main characters this time, along with Roveg, a Quelin; Speaker, an Akarak; and Ouloo and her child Tupo, both Laru. The setting is the planet Gora, which is the Hanto word for “useless,” which I think made me laugh out loud upon reading that. It’s a planet that people stop […]

The Lake House Meets Just Like Heaven

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

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Bingo Square: Sex Book publicist Clementine is about to move into her late aunt’s apartment. She doesn’t really want to, too many memories. She spent a lot of time with her aunt, travelling together over the years, and feels her loss immensely. But her aunt left the apartment to her, and she remembers how she’d told her it was magic. She doesn’t necessarily believe it until she finds a young man standing in the living room. A man who is living seven years in Clementine’s […]



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