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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Back to basics in a good way

Plant Based Cookbook by Trish Sebben-Krupka

April 20, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I somehow only just realized that the bargains shelves at Barnes and Noble actually have an online equivalent; I was trying to reach a threshold of some sort (maybe sped X to get Y off?) and found the $5 Plant Based Cookbook. It’s kind of basic, but I still think it might have been a good impulse grab, so to speak. I think what this one’s going to be best for is a set of recipes including things I remember liking before but not quite […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: #food, cookbook, cookking, plant based, Plant Based Cookbook, Trish Sebban Krupka, Trish Sebben-Krupka, vegan

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: #food, cookbook, cookking, plant based, Plant Based Cookbook, Trish Sebban Krupka, Trish Sebben-Krupka, vegan ·
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I should have just posted “I like this book. Read it.” And put all the images instead of more text.

All Are Welcome: A Cat's Café Collection by Gwen Tarpley

April 10, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had not heard of the Cat’s Cafe online/webtoons. Or if I had, they had not registered in my brain. Therefore, When I found All Are Welcome: A Cat’s Café Collection by Gwen Tarpley as an online copy (due at the end of July 2025) I was going into a new found territory. While it is said to be for middle readers, a lot of things are mature and good for adults as well. What I mean is that Cat’s Cafe is easy. We have […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Poetry, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #food, animals, Cats, friendship, Gwen Tarpley, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:184 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Poetry, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #food, animals, Cats, friendship, Gwen Tarpley, Social Themes ·
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In Search of the Green Fairy

The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit by Evan Rail

April 6, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Among all liquors, absinthe, a high-proof anised-flavored spirit known for its green hue, has a special mystique for its alleged mind-altering properities, its association with the art and literature of the 19th century, and a nearly century-long ban in many countries in Europe and America. However, one unscrupulous enthusiast took advantage of its cult following to swindle collectors out of thousands of dollars. Last spring, in a small bar in Seattle, I was regaled by the story of how absinthe came to be banned. A […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #food, #history, ARC, europe, Evan Rail, NetGalley, non fiction, travel, true crime

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #food, #history, ARC, europe, Evan Rail, NetGalley, non fiction, travel, true crime ·
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A hopeful future with robots and food

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

April 6, 2025 by LB 1 Comment

If you need a story of chosen family and hope and good food, Automatic Noodle absolutely fits the bill. This is a delightful novella of a near-future where California has split from the United States after war, and part of California progressiveness was to give civil rights to human equivalent embodied intelligence (HEEI) robots. But those rights are limited – they’re not able to use a bank, own property, and there’s lots of prejudice against robots (very allegorical to American attitudes towards immigrants and marginalized […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #food, Annalee Newitz, friendship, near future, noodles, novella, queer, Romance, San Francisco, tor publishing, trans

LB's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #food, Annalee Newitz, friendship, near future, noodles, novella, queer, Romance, San Francisco, tor publishing, trans ·
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Book Cover, Stanley Tucci in black & white facing camera, title & author's name visible

“Actually,” Stacy says, “Stanley Tucci is everyone’s type.” I nod in solidarity. “Amen.”

What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci

Taste: My Life in Food by Stanley Tucci

March 31, 2025 by NTE 1 Comment

The title quote is from Julie Murphy’s , If the Shoe Fits, which I think marks the first time I’m using a pull quote for a review that is not from either of the actual books I am reviewing, but I can’t really help it when someone else has communicated the truth so clearly.  In What I Ate in One Year, speaking about his friend & fellow actor Andrew Scott, Stanley Tucci muses “Can someone be too good at something? I mean, so good, that everyone else […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #food, eating, Stanley Tucci, taste, What I Ate in One Year

NTE's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #food, eating, Stanley Tucci, taste, What I Ate in One Year ·
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Understandable how you could mistake this knife fetishist for a murderer, but he didn’t do it.

Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin

January 9, 2025 by narfna 2 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley, RBmedia, and Recorded Books for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Yes, this book was written by a TV chef. Apparently he was on Masterchef—I’ve never seen it. But unless he used a very secret ghostwriter, he did a good job! I truly have no idea why the ratings for this book are so low coming out of the UK*, or why the cozy mystery people have not come flocking (though this isn’t a cozy, it does have […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: #food, ARCs, audiobook, cooking, Knife Skills for Beginners, mystery, narfna, Orlando Murrin

narfna's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: #food, ARCs, audiobook, cooking, Knife Skills for Beginners, mystery, narfna, Orlando Murrin ·
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