Cooking/Food – Page 40 – Cannonball Read 17

Stories, food, cats and pride. Oh my!

A Story No One Has Ever Heard Before by Avi Steinberg

Boys Don't Fry by Kimberly Lee

How Mr. Silver Stole the Show by Kate Klise

Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration: Adventure Through the History of the Queer Community by Diego Blanco

January 16, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR16SweetBooks #Binge Picture book binging is always a favorite activity of mine. I sat down at lunch one day and read four picture books from online reader copies. A Story No One Has Ever Heard Before by Avi Steinberg; Boys Don’t Fry by Kimberly Lee and illustrated by Charlene Chua; How Mr. Silver Stole the Show by Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise on the illustrations and finally Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration: Adventure Through the History of the Queer Community illustrated by Diego Blanco, published by Epic Ink Books (due in mid/late April 2024). Well, I skimmed Pride and this is […]

Sailing with a cat, dog, parrot, rat and some humans

Trim Sets Sail by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Helps Out by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Saves the Day. by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Sails the Storm by Deborah Hopkinson

January 12, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#CBR16SweetBooks Binge (four books same series/read back-to-back) Recently I accidentally found myself bingeing a series when I found (in my old) online reading links to copies of Trim Helps Out and Trim Sets Sail by Deborah Hopkinson (the author of way too many wonderful books to name here) and illustrated by Kristy Caldwell (illustrator of some delightful other books such as two I enjoyed, Away with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird and Flowers for Sarajevo). Both of the new found titles are from October 2023, and I read them out of order (as […]

Among misfits you’re family

Misfit Mansion by Kay Davault

January 10, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was cleaning out my old online reader links (once again…. this is going to take longer than I thought) and found Misfit Mansion by Kay Davault. I had thought I had lost this link, but I was excited to see that I had not. This book has been something I have wanted to read since I first saved the link, but never had the opportunity to read it. And the wait was mostly worth it. This is a terribly cute story about family and […]

MSG is death! and other thoughts about Nigerian food

Food Culture and Cuisine in Nigeria by Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Kingdom of Netherlands

January 7, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Usually I try to start off the year with something non-fiction; the book I started wit hthat in mind is taking a bit longer for reasons I’ll get into when I review it. SO instead, I present a random library grab that is actually pretty interesting: Food Culture and Cuisine in Nigeria (by the Nigerian Embassy in the Netherlands). How that got to random SE US public library I have no idea, but that’s part of the fun of a library; they have stuff you […]

Turf and Surf

Birtle and the Purple Turtles (Volume One) by Tara J. Hannon

Birtle and the (Very) Unwelcome Garry (Volume 2) by Tara J. Hannon

January 4, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I think Birtle and the Purple Turtles (Volume One) is an odd and nice story about “being different” but that’s okay. Not specifically GLBT but fits those and other “I am different” needs. Sweet, modern, good for the early reader needing help, been reading solo for a bit or a listener. The story is familiar, we have a turtle who wants to play, but the town of Turtleville is not into playing turtle tag. They have other things they want. But one day a thing falls […]

An Asian option for Veganuary, especially if you like eggplant

Vegan Asian by Jeeca Uy

December 30, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

For probably my last review of the year, let’s go with the second cookbook I plan on starting the year with Vegan Asian: A Cookbook. Turns out this is another blogger turned author publication, btu it looks pretty promising. Most everything looks doable and there’s only 1 recipe that uses an unusual ingredient not needed anywhere else in the book. I hate that, when you’re given an ingredient to use with not substitution options and no other uses for what the author ahs to know […]

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