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There is a curse. They say: May you live in interesting times.

Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

July 18, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 3: Gateway I initially got into Terry Pratchett because of the interesting and wacky cover illustrations of the original British paperbacks done by Josh Kirby. I remember picking one up a few times in a used bookshop before actually purchasing it. The interesting thing about the Discworld series is that it contains several character focused threads: Death, the witches, the wizards, the Watch, and assorted. This is one of the first series’ that I can remember starting and then chasing down all past and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr13bingo, discworld, interesting times, rincewind, Terry Pratchett, wizards

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:60 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, cbr13bingo, discworld, interesting times, rincewind, Terry Pratchett, wizards ·
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A Crooked Kingdom Full of Reps

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

July 8, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 2: Rep The more I thought about it, the more I think Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows 2) really does work for the Rep square. I saw an article from Tor.com that argued that Nina rep’d for body positivity arguing that it is unusual for a main character/heroine who is female and larger and not just there for the comic relief or for the eventual slim down/glow up. While I do agree with this, I think it’s a bit more of a factor in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr13bingo, crooked kingdom, Dark Fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows #2, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:59 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr13bingo, crooked kingdom, Dark Fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows #2, YA ·
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And so it begins…with a Spike!

Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate

July 3, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 1: Sportsball Haikyu!! Translates to “Volleyball!!”, thus this series is fitting for the Sportsball square. Here I present volumes 1-2. In most every way this is a standard school sports story. There are two different guys, they were rivals, but now they have to figure out how to get along. One has some natural talent but not training and a lot of enthusiasm (Hinata), and it’s been his dream to be like a kid he saw on tv playing in a volleyball championship game; […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Sports Tagged With: anime, cbr13bingo, Haikyu!!, Haruichi Furudate, high school, manga, sports, volleyball, volume 2, voume 1

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Sports · Tags: anime, cbr13bingo, Haikyu!!, Haruichi Furudate, high school, manga, sports, volleyball, volume 2, voume 1 ·
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Snatch, Lewks, Shade, and Werk (an no, there are no typos here)

Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald, Lorenzo Marquez

June 30, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life covers a wide range of subjects in shallow depth. The introduction is open about this, and the authors suggest you go ask Youtube and Google about further details. On the one hand, this is a good goal, to encourage people to further explore things of interest. On the other hand, it can also be a problem such as when a queen named Michelle is important but not discussed much […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, 20th century America, 20th Century history, drag queen, drag race, Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life, lgbtq history, pride month, queer history, rupaul, Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez, US History

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:57 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, 20th century America, 20th Century history, drag queen, drag race, Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life, lgbtq history, pride month, queer history, rupaul, Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez, US History ·
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All kind of washed out

RWBY The Official Manga vol 3 by Bunta Kinami

June 27, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m pretty sure I may have reviewed a previous volume of this manga adaptation of an animated series elsewhere, but I don’t remember. So my bad if I’m repeating myself a whole bunch here. RWBY: The Official Manga vol. 3 is more of a retelling of the animated series than anything else. So these 4 main characters (Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang- odd how the color/name thing isn’t explained here, although it is in the animation) are all students at a school for Hunters/Huntresses, where the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #fantasy, Action & Adventure, animated series, Bunta Kinami, Monty Oum, RWBY, RWBY The Official Manga, school story, vol. 3

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:56 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #fantasy, Action & Adventure, animated series, Bunta Kinami, Monty Oum, RWBY, RWBY The Official Manga, school story, vol. 3 ·
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Much Beloved but Not by me

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

June 25, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ll just say this up front: I do not get the hype around this series. I realize that I am not the original target audience (it’s dark YA fantasy), and that Six of Crows is not the original introduction to the Grishaverse, it’s a side-series. That said, I’m kind of wondering about the Netflix show Shadow and Bone because from the sound of it, if you’ve read the books, you don’t like the series, but I haven’t read (most of) the books, so maybe? Actually […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Dark Fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:55 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Dark Fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, six of crows, YA ·
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