Title: Coffee Gives Me Superpowers
Author: Ryoko Iwata
Genre: Entertainment
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Formats: Hardcover, Kindle
Print Length: 96 pages
Source: NetGalley
For coffee lovers and those who love them, Coffee Gives Me Superpowers is a fun, graphic design-centered book focused on one of the world’s most addictive and beloved substances–coffee.
If coffee is the foundation of your food pyramid, then this is your book. Inspired by Ryoko Iwata’s popular Web site, I Love Coffee (en.ilovecoffee.jp), Coffee Gives Me Superpowers is overflowing with infographics and fun, interesting facts about the most awesome beverage on earth written by Ryoko, a Japanese coffee-lover living in Seattle. The book includes the most popular pieces on the site, such as “Your Brain on Beer vs. Coffee,” “10 Coffee Myths,” “The 15 Most Caffeinated Cities in the U.S.,” “The Best Time of Day to Drink Coffee (According to Science),” and “10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Caffeine,” plus 25 percent new, original material that is available only in this book.
Coffee Gives Me Superpowers is an entertaining and educational coffee table book about coffee. How can you go wrong? I admit that I chose this book based on the title and the cute cover, and I got exactly what I expected. I learned a few fun facts, like the optimum time of day to indulge in coffee, and that coffee is technically made out of fruit. So, that must make it healthy right? There were also a couple of disturbing facts, like the most expensive coffee in the world being made from elephant poop. Yeah, I won’t be partaking of that. There is also an interesting little section on what your coffee drink of choice says about your personality. See if it fits you. I have to say it wasn’t accurate for me, but I may be unusual. There are also some interesting historical facts included, like where the term “cup of joe” comes from, and the times gone by use of the saucer.
This book is a very quick read and I daresay you could read it in its entirety while sipping a single cup of coffee. Unfortunately, the kindle version is not formatted properly in the eARc and therefore I had a hard time reading a small portion of the text. Also, the illustrations didn’t show correctly, or sometimes at all, and that slowed down the read. I actually went to the author’s blog to view the illustrations there to get the complete view of what the finished book will look like. Because the book is so short it was easy to do that, however. Even with the technical glitches, I enjoyed the lighthearted take on the ever popular beverage. If you are a coffee lover, grab this book and a cup of joe, and you may learn some fun new things about your favorite drink. If you love a coffee lover, you may get a little insight into what makes them such a fan.
♥ ♥ ♥ 1/2
My gracious thanks to Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion review.
Who doesn’t love coffee. Looks like a fun book