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Paternoster Qui Est inFinitum

Beyond Infinity by Eugenia Cheng

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Bingo Book Review 19: White Whale I think it was about 3 years ago when I read How to Bake π, mostly liked it, and went out to get the author’s subsequent book Beyond Infinity. I started it, got bored after about a chapter, and it’s been sitting on my coffee table since then. I’ve promised myself every now and again that I’m going to finish off the 3-4 books that I’ve started at some point and not finished, so this time it was Beyond […]

Is a cookbook that’s more about decoration still a cookbook?

Let's Bake! A Pusheen Cookbook by Claire Belton and Susanne Ng

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Bingo Review 18 How To Cookbook review ahead, but really more of a how to decorate book. Full disclosure: I have not actually attempted anything in Let’s Bake! A Pusheen Cookbook. There is a big reason for that which I will get to shortly. First, for those unfamiliar, Pusheen is a cartoon character popular on the internet, but now perhaps best known for cutesey merchandise, like socks, mystery boxes, and calendars, widely available all over. Pusheen herself is a grey tabby cat, and by now […]

If Start Trek Got Blah and Some Part of it Knew That

Red Shirts by John Scalzi

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Bingo Review 17: Red Red Shirts (‘red’ is in the title, and occasionally referenced in-text) is basically Star Trek gone meta, really meta. I would divide the story into two parts: the part where certain members of the crew of the Intrepid start to notice some strange patterns surrounding the away missions: certain crew members always are fine (relatively) while certain others are nearly guaranteed to end up dead. But why is that? Ensign Dahl is the driving force behind trying to solve this strange […]

The Role of Money in Fairy Tales, but with a sort of Feminist twist

Kakuriyo, vols. 1-2 by Waco Ioca, Midori Yuma, Laruha

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Bingo Review 16: Money! Basically, this is a fairy tale about an impossible debt, and how to pay it without having to get married to some random rich or important guy. Here’s the set up: Aoi Tsubaki is a Japanese college student who has recently lost the grandfather who raised her. The key thing they shared was an ability to see and interact with the spirit world. One day, Aoi stops to help a hungry ayakashi (catch-all term for folkloric monster-creature) and he drags her […]

Keep with the New Fun magic Falcons or Stick with the Plan?

The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso

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Bingo Review 15: Fresh Start I’ve kind of had my eye on The Tethered Mage, Book One of the Swords and Fire trilogy, and using it for the starting a new series square worked out just fine. Looking at the cover I actually just noticed that one of my favorite fantasy writers, Genvieve Cogman, approved of it too; I don’t always have great luck with things authors I like like, but maybe this is an exception. I should also admit that by the end I […]

No Real Gold Here, Just Dull Rocks with Spraypaint

Gold by Dan Rhodes

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Bingo Review 14: Yellow Gold (aka “shiny yellow”, hence it counts for this square) is something I’ve had sitting around for a while; I picked it up out of a bargain bin at an indie bookstore I like. Basically, Miyuki, whose father was Japanese and mother Welsh, goes on vacation every year for two weeks in January to a small town in Wales and ends up in the local pub a lot. She gets to know some of the regulars and locals who drink there. […]



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