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Monday Morning Coffee News
Happy Monday! Some interesting recent goings-on in the world of coffee: KFC announced plans for an edible coffee cup, Dunkin' Donuts greets spring with the return of ice-cream flavored coffees and lattes, and a study indicates drinking coffee may lower risk of heart attack. Also, Martha Stewart opened up a coffee shop in New York, Starbucks announced launch of Cold Brew in more than 2,800 stores, and a company creates a coffee cup made from coffee.
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[Book Review] Insanity By Cameron Jace & Alice Coffee Alice’s Blend
Set in modern day, Insanity opens with the discovery of a dead body – a girl whose face has been sewn up into a disturbing grin. The girl is the latest victim of the serial killer known as the Cheshire Cat. Back at Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum, Professor Carter Pillar, a hookah-smoking philosophy professor turned serial killer himself (known as Pillar The Killer), has a plan to stop the Cheshire Cat and ropes fellow patient Alice Wonder, a nineteen-year-old girl with no memories who was institutionalized after killing a bus-load of her peers, into helping. And it just dissolves into madness from there.
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[Book Review] The Dark Victorian: Risen By Elizabeth Watasin & ReAnimator Coffee Foundation Blend
The Dark Victorian is a steampunk paranormal detective series featuring senior agent Jim Dastard, a top hat-wearing talking skull, and his new partner, an artificial ghost named Artifice (Art for short). Both are resurrected criminals who have been given a “second life” working for Prince Albert’s Secret Commission, dedicating their talents to protecting crown and country from supernatural threats. The Dark Victorian: Risen is the first volume in the series and sees Jim and Art being assigned as partners and working their first case together – a string of gruesome deaths attributed to a rogue re-animator.
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[Book Review] Black Widow By Jennifer Estep & Coffee Beanery Caramel Apple
Gin Blanco, the badass ice and stone elemental wielding assassin with a seemingly perpetual target on her back, is back in the 12th installment of the Elemental Assassin series. The person targeting Gin this time around is very different from her usual adversaries – M.M. Monroe is calm, confident, and very very cunning, patiently bidding her time and quietly weaving a web of misfortune around Gin and her friends from behind the scenes using all the power money and connections can buy in a town as overrun with corruption as Ashland, and that’s before she even unleashes a drop of the powerful acid magic she has at her finger tips.
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Monday Morning Coffee News
Happy Monday! It was a bit of a slow week in the coffee world: A recently released study linked coffee intake in women to a lower risk of developing endometrial cancer, Starbucks announced plans to add coconut milk as a non-diary alternative in stores, and Keurig Green Mountain announced its slightly disappointing fiscal first quarter results for 2015.
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[Book Review] The Resurrectionist By E.B. Hudspeth & Raven’s Brew Coffee Resurrection Blend
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black is a book told in two parts; the first half is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, the second is a series of illustrations attributed to the doctor. When I picked up the book, the first thing I did was leaf through the illustrations in the back. I was immediately struck by how well-done and detailed they were and became fascinated with the combination of mythological creature anatomy and medical science – little did I know at the time, but after finishing the fictional biography part of the book, I would never look at those images the same again.
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