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Ending with a Zombie Killing Porn Star and a Priest in a Bar

Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

January 13, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I continue with my end of year promise to finish several started but unfinished books before beginning anything new. Next up: Devil Said Bang, Sandman Slim #4. Maybe it was the month or few between starting and picking it back up, but this one seemed to have a lot less action, and a lot more of Stark inside his own head or contemplating his situation or himself. I’m not complaining about this, it just seems a little different from the previous novels in the series. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: devil said bang, devils, ghosts, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: devil said bang, devils, ghosts, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim ·
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If Your Nerdiest English Professor Wrote A Cookbook

MLA Members Cook by Modern Language Association

January 5, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

There are two ways to think about this: what’s the nerdiest thing you can think of OR what’s the most in-jokey vanity project you can think of? Either way, the answer is MLA Members Cook!  This is a cookbook supposedly created by collecting recipes from members of the MLA; yes that MLA, as in the formatting and citation style your English teachers and professors made you use. I said ‘supposedly’ created  because based on what this supposed book is presented as, a cookbook by members […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: cookbook, cranberries, Emily Dickinson, gin, MLA, MLA style, Pablo Neruda, Roald Dahl, Shakespeare, su dongpo, Walt Whitman

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: cookbook, cranberries, Emily Dickinson, gin, MLA, MLA style, Pablo Neruda, Roald Dahl, Shakespeare, su dongpo, Walt Whitman ·
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Think if fantasy world Romeo and Juliet had better or absent parents

City of Lies by Sam Hawke

December 30, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I made myself a promise: no more starting a new read until I finish the four partially read books on my coffee table. Not counting the occasional graphic novel. At least one of those books has been on that coffee table unfinished for I think a year, maybe a little more. I here review not that book, but one that I knew I could finish and review before 2018 runs out. I started City of Lies over the summer (July, I think?), got 2/3 way […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: city of lies, fantasy, poison wars, sam hawke

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:56 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: city of lies, fantasy, poison wars, sam hawke ·
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The Radio Guy Runs a Few Marathons

November 25, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

  I became a consistent NPR listener when I moved to a region where the radio options were country music, Christian rock, or NPR. I wanted something to listen to in the car to and from work and while running errands, and I can only tolerate the first two options in small doses, then it all starts to sound the same to me and that gets annoying. So when I heard that Peter Sagal, longtime host of one of the more entertaining talk options “Wait […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: boston marathon, humor, NPR, peter sagal, running, the incomplete book of running

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:55 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: boston marathon, humor, NPR, peter sagal, running, the incomplete book of running ·
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Hug Your Secret Service Agent

November 25, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

If Hope Never Dies does not win Best Humor in the Goodreads awards for 2018, I will never again be able to regard them as real awards. The plot and a lot of characters are pretty stereotypical for a mystery or buddy-cop adventure, but it’s a lot of fun, like one of those Obama-Biden memes novelized. Not much as a serious mystery, but really entertaining. Think of the plot and main duo of any buddy-cop adventure: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker (Rush Hour), Danny Glover […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Mystery Tagged With: Andrew Shaffer, biden, bromance, buddy mystery, goodreads awards, Hope Never Dies, humor, obama

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:54 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Mystery · Tags: Andrew Shaffer, biden, bromance, buddy mystery, goodreads awards, Hope Never Dies, humor, obama ·
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Coffee Shop’s Theory of the Trilogy

November 25, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

I’m back! After finishing my committed 52 reviews, I ended up not reviewing for a while, because life etc. NB: Much of what follows is from the slightly more technical and in depth blog post concerning my attempts to explain the theory behind why part 2 of any trilogy is often the least fun or entertaining. As of now, the Dragon Lords series is a trilogy; I have no idea if the author will keep it that way or continue with further installments. I read […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: dragons, false idols, fantasy, jon hollis, joseph campbell, spaceballs, the dragon lords, the monomyth, trilogy

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:53 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: dragons, false idols, fantasy, jon hollis, joseph campbell, spaceballs, the dragon lords, the monomyth, trilogy ·
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