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“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything.”

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Remember Nothing & Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

April 4, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron

NTE's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron ·
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What is a detective’s favorite fruit? Clue-berries.

Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast V07 Whodonut?: A Holiday Mystery by Josh Funk and Brendan Kearney

April 1, 2025 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

Josh Funk and Brendan Kearney had me at Miss Maple and lost me at gummy bugs! Okay, well, they didn’t lose me, just made me pause. But then they had me again at Elvis Parsley.  This seventh addition to the Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast series, Whodonut?: A Holiday Mystery is a fun, cute and different holiday story. While the “Who Dun-it” aspect and the idea of the last book in a series is not new, the way Funk and Kearney presents things is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: action, adventure, Brendan Kearney, celebrations, friendship, holidays, Josh Funk, Josh Funk and Brendan Kearney, Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:165 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: action, adventure, Brendan Kearney, celebrations, friendship, holidays, Josh Funk, Josh Funk and Brendan Kearney, Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast ·
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Turns out that preserved lemons are pretty darn tasty

Big Vegan Flavor by Nisha Vora

March 28, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I may have been doing a little retail therapy at Target when I saw a cookbook I hadn’t seen before: Big Vegan Flavor. It had a discount sticker on it too, although it was probably one of those that’s designed to distract from the unreasonable original sticker price. Book cam home with me anyways. I have never been that much into the food blogging or You-tubing worlds, and this apparently descends from that realm. The only thing I really hold against Big Vegan Flavor is […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Featured Tagged With: Big Vegan Cooking, cookbook, Nisha Vora, Rainbow Plant Life, vegan cooking

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Featured · Tags: Big Vegan Cooking, cookbook, Nisha Vora, Rainbow Plant Life, vegan cooking ·
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We’re best friends! And cats. And vampires.

Two Vampire Cats by Jannie Ho

March 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have wanted to read Two Vampire Cats by Jannie Ho for about two weeks now. Or ever since I saw the advanced reader copy I found. It is a silly book about two vampire cats, a ghost and their town. For the adult reader there isn’t a lot of bite, but for kids it is worth the reading trip. This is for about ages 5 to young 8-9. It works as a read aloud or a first solo read with help, and the older […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: animals, beginner readers, Cats, friendship, Jannie Ho, Money, money making projects, vampires

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:150 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: animals, beginner readers, Cats, friendship, Jannie Ho, Money, money making projects, vampires ·
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Out of this world pizza and more

Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins

March 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Inclusion, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge I find books mostly as reader copies and finished copies. Now, I try to have the reader copies physically in hand (it’s easier for me to read) but sometimes (and a lot more lately) I must settle for an online reader copy. And Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins came to me in an email that sent me to the graphic novels link to read. Due in mid September 2025, you’ll have a bit to wait before you […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, family, friendship, Inclusion, LGBTQ, magic, Pizza, Sarah Graley, Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins, Stef Purenins, talking cats

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:144 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, family, friendship, Inclusion, LGBTQ, magic, Pizza, Sarah Graley, Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins, Stef Purenins, talking cats ·
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Forced to leave home

Wings to Soar by Tina Athaide

March 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Diversity CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge April is Poetry Month. Therefore in March I decided to find a few books of poetry or novels that were prose poetry. And one of them was Wings to Soar by Tina Athaide. Currently available, I read it via an online reader copy. I do not think I will purchase copies for myself, but I think anyone who is interested in refugees, women authors or places we do not normally read about, this is the book for you. Aimed at […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: Autobiographical fiction, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, diversity, Emigration, England, europe, family, fathers, forced migration, Immigration & Refugees, India, parents, siblings, Tina Athaide, Uganda

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:140 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: Autobiographical fiction, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, diversity, Emigration, England, europe, family, fathers, forced migration, Immigration & Refugees, India, parents, siblings, Tina Athaide, Uganda ·
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