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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A Woman’s Work etc.

A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food by Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah

August 20, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 8: Work A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food is basically a short illustrated encyclopedia of women who influenced the food world. The overall thesis is that their intellectual, physical, and cultural work across centuries and places has gone under-acknowledged. These women in different ways had to work to take care of themselves, their families, and communities, and in the process came up with things ranging from Camembert cheese to dishwashers to famous cookbooks […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, A Woman’s Place: The Inventors Rumrunners Lawbreakers Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food, cbr17bingo, Deepi Ahluwalia, Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah, food history, Jessica Olah, recipes, restaurants, Stef Ferrari, technology history, Women's History

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:41 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, A Woman’s Place: The Inventors Rumrunners Lawbreakers Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food, cbr17bingo, Deepi Ahluwalia, Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah, food history, Jessica Olah, recipes, restaurants, Stef Ferrari, technology history, Women's History ·
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(Chappell voice) Battle For Manhattan

Battle For Manhattan by Bruce Bliven, Jr.

August 8, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR 17 Bingo: starts with letter B. Look this is going to be a very strained review. I’m sorry but this book doesn’t merit 250 words. As it says on the inside flap, large portions of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker. It’s a glorified wikipedia entry. I picked it up because I needed to read a book about the American Revolution for my library book bingo and it was a slim volume. I knew Manhattan had some importance in the […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #history, battle for manhattan, battle of manhattan, Bruce Bliven, Jr., cbr17bingo, George Washington, Revolutionary War, starts with B

Jake's CBR17 Review No:35 · Genres: History · Tags: #history, battle for manhattan, battle of manhattan, Bruce Bliven, Jr., cbr17bingo, George Washington, Revolutionary War, starts with B ·
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North Brooklyn

Greenpoint Brooklyn's Forgotten Past by Gregory Cobb

July 30, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: book begins with the letter “G” I worked in Greenpoint for two years and really came to love the area. My grandmother was from east Baltimore, the same east Baltimore featured in John Waters’ Hairspray. Patterson Park, Canton, Dundalk. Those were her stomping grounds. Those neighborhoods featured a glorious mix of ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures coming together in a dense rowhouse-packed area. She always spoke fondly of growing up there. Greenpoint gave me a similar feeling, though like most of […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #history, Brooklyn, cbr17bingo, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn's Forgotten Past, Gregory Cobb, New York City, starts with g

Jake's CBR17 Review No:30 · Genres: History · Tags: #history, Brooklyn, cbr17bingo, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn's Forgotten Past, Gregory Cobb, New York City, starts with g ·
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A Journey to the Center of Life

Gen: Perjalanan Menuju Pusat Kehidupan by Siddharta Mukherjee; Damaring Tyas W Palar

July 17, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Another (daft) reading challenge! A few years back I took the best part of 8 months to read through an Indonesian translation of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer  (Kanker Biografi Suatu Penyakit.) I wasn’t sure if I was going to continue with the rest of the translations of Mukherjee’s books. But Google Play was nothing but persistent.  So there we have it; it was a little less laborious this time, but I have managed to make my way though the translation […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, biotechnology, cbr17bingo, dumb stunts, eugenics, G., Gene, Genetics, science, Siddharta Mukherjee; Damaring Tyas W Palar, translation

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, biotechnology, cbr17bingo, dumb stunts, eugenics, G., Gene, Genetics, science, Siddharta Mukherjee; Damaring Tyas W Palar, translation ·
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Pigments, Paint, and People

What is Color? The Global and Sometimes Gross Story of Pigments, Paint, and the Wondrous World of Art by Steven Weinberg

June 16, 2025 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

I signed up for my core science requirement in my sophomore year of undergrad. I heard from my advisor and my classmates that the color science course was a good one for theatre majors, fun and easy. Then, on the first day of class, the professor thoroughly destroyed both of those rumors. I dropped it immediately, forgot about my science requirement entirely, and ended up fulfilling it with an 8 AM astronomy course the summer AFTER I should have graduated (I got a C on […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, art, Children's Books, Color, color theory, non fiction, science, STEAM, steven weinberg

cosbrarian's CBR17 Review No:38 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, art, Children's Books, Color, color theory, non fiction, science, STEAM, steven weinberg ·
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Life is always happening and has happened and will happen

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

June 12, 2025 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

One of Chekhov’s earliest stories was a parody of mental arithmetic questions asked of schoolchildren, of which Chekhov’s question 7 is typical: Wednesday, June 17, 1881, a train had to leave station A at 3am in order to reach station B at 11pm; just as the train was about to depart, however, an order came that the train had to reach station B by 7pm. Who loves longer, a man or a woman? Who? You, me, a Hiroshima resident or a slave labourer? And why […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Featured, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Australia, Australian authors, Baillie Gifford prize, HG Wells, Manhattan Project, Memoir-ish, memoirs, memory, nuclear war, Richard Flanagan, Tasmania, World War Two

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Featured, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Australia, Australian authors, Baillie Gifford prize, HG Wells, Manhattan Project, Memoir-ish, memoirs, memory, nuclear war, Richard Flanagan, Tasmania, World War Two ·
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