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From Mummies to Tattoos to Eunuchs

Dinner With King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists are Re-Creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean

July 26, 2025 by bjornsnipe 4 Comments

Sam Kean also loved the idea of archeology, but never the actually practice; all that digging for a couple of pot shards was not his idea of a good time. Then he discovered experimental archeology: people attempting to recreate the foods, clothing, weapons, architecture, and medicine of ancient civilizations. This book is the record of his foray into the field, organized chronologically from 75,000 years ago in Africa with a spear hunter to the 1500s in Mexico with an enemy of the Aztecs assisting the […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #AztecEmpire, archaeology, mummies, Sam Kean

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:94 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #AztecEmpire, archaeology, mummies, Sam Kean ·
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You’ll flip for this adventure(s)

Double Booking: The Tail of the Mummy Cat by Pangburn, Kim Shearer and Nic Touris

May 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Do you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? (FYI: they still have them. ) Anyway, at first, I thought that the book, Double Booking: The Tail of the Mummy Cat by Pangburn, Kim Shearer and Nic Touris, was going to be one of them when I found an online reader copy of it (though currently available). I figured, well this will be interesting to try and read. Thankfully (or maybe not thankfully depending on if you think it might be fun to try a […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: action, adventure, Ancient Civilizations, Cats, egypt, family, Kim Shearer, mummies, museums, Nic Touris, Pangburn, Pangburn, Kim Shearer and Nic Touris, siblings, travel

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:263 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: action, adventure, Ancient Civilizations, Cats, egypt, family, Kim Shearer, mummies, museums, Nic Touris, Pangburn, Pangburn, Kim Shearer and Nic Touris, siblings, travel ·
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All it needed was Brendan Frasier

Fantasy Sports V01: Court of Souls by Sam Bosma

October 16, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The time came for me to look at old saved links for online reader copies. And one that I had been wanting to read, but the time was never  really right, was Fantasy Sports V01: Court of Souls. I figured that the Sam Bosma graphic novel might be a Space Jam of sorts. (Not that I have seen Space Jam one or two, but what I figure it was like) and it was nothing like that. Things were if The Mummy meets Indiana Jones meets […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: basketball, debut graphic novel, explorers, magic, manga, mummies, Sam Bosma

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:747 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: basketball, debut graphic novel, explorers, magic, manga, mummies, Sam Bosma ·
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Heaven Goes to War with Heaven and Mummies try not to fall apart

Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw

April 3, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’d kind of been putting off reading Grave Importance because it’s the conclusion of a series I’ve enjoyed. This was a good ending to the series, and I’m sad it’s over, but at the same time there are a few things I wish had gotten a little more attention. The basic story has two lines that of course merge part way through; first there’s Greta’s in which she takes over a really fancy mummy clinic for a friend for a few months and naturally discovers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: angels, dr greta helsing, Grave Importance, greta helsing, Heaven, hell, mummies, museum heist, Ruthven, vampires, Varney, Vivian Shaw

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: angels, dr greta helsing, Grave Importance, greta helsing, Heaven, hell, mummies, museum heist, Ruthven, vampires, Varney, Vivian Shaw ·
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A Few Things Get Lost in Translation from Podcast to Book

Sawbones: the Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine by Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy

January 3, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So the question for this first review of 2021 was do I review the book I started (and finished) in 2021 first, or the one I started in 2020 and finished in 2021 first? I have decided to review Sawbones: The Book first, because I’m pretty sure I started 2020 with Will My Cate Eat My Eyeballs? (which I greatly enjoyed) and there are some strong similarities, both being medical in nature, as well as presented by an expert (one of the co-authors of Sawbones […]

Filed Under: Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: alchemy, anceint medicine, bodily fluids, chemistry, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy, grave robbers, justin mcelroy, Medical History, mummies, opium, podcast, Sawbones: the Horrifying HIlarious road to Modern Medicine

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: alchemy, anceint medicine, bodily fluids, chemistry, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy, grave robbers, justin mcelroy, Medical History, mummies, opium, podcast, Sawbones: the Horrifying HIlarious road to Modern Medicine ·
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Making all things Death interesting, with Pictures

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

January 2, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

So technically I started this book on New Year’s Eve day but I did not get it finished in time to be a final review of 2019, so here it is as my first review of 2020. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? is very much as it has been advertised: an entertaining, yet informative discussion of various questions a mortician has been asked about death and dying. The one thing that I was not expecting and still kind of doubt is the claim that […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: bodies, bugs, Caitlin Doughty, corpses, Death, dianne ruz, mummies, science, skulls, will my cat eat my eyeballs?

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: bodies, bugs, Caitlin Doughty, corpses, Death, dianne ruz, mummies, science, skulls, will my cat eat my eyeballs? ·
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