Eh
Lots of beautifully photo-ed terrible recipes, made worse by the fact that Heinz appear to have dramatically changed the bean:sauce ratio since 1990 which means that many of the recipes given end up too liquid
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ookiimarukochan reviewed Shunga by Timothy Clark
You can discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the …
An educational read
4 stars
An educational read, if nothing else for the realisation that the experts who've provided monographs have no knowledge of the world outside Japan or its' history (in particular suggesting that art world in the UK in the 18th/19th centuries avoided topics as they would upset the pope)
ookiimarukochan reviewed Mass Effect: Deception by William C. Dietz
Genuinely offensive
1 star
Even when you exclude the way that no one involved in this book appears to have played the games or read previous novels in the series, the way that a severely autistic non-verbal girl turns into a neurotypical teen over the course of a few weeks "because she felt like it" is one of the most offensive things I've ever read in a book.
Mézières and Christin have done something that almost no one had done before: after 43 …
Valerian The Complete Collection Vol 7 Review
2 stars
Content warning Spoilers for the end of the series!
Can't believe that Mezieres and Christin went for the awful ending that pops up too much in Japanese fiction - "the hero's memories have been deleted/destroyed but it's a happy ending because we can make new ones!" - no, that person is dead now. Ugh.