{"id":248,"date":"2020-03-27T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibrariesblog.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:09:14","slug":"the-monk-of-mokha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/the-monk-of-mokha\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Monk of Mokha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-3.png?w=195\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6150\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:<\/strong>  Dave Eggers&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong>  Adult Non-Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Review by:<\/strong> Orla<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave Eggers has polished his craft of writing by doing extensive research and it shows. He has a gift of being able to jump into the mindset of someone else and being able to inhabit their world. He delves into the history of coffee making and walks in the shoes of Mokhtar Alkhanshai, a Yemeni, who is 24 years old. Living in San Francisco he has big dreams for himself. He is determined to bring the Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s richest coffee beans from his homeland Yemen for sale in the US. But he faces conflicting challenges as there is political unrest in Yemen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a fascinating book. It highlights the competitive nature of the coffee industry how they compete against each other to bring you the best cup of coffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d like to read this book, it&#8217;s available to borrow on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kildare.borrowbox.com\/product\/PRU_514809\/title\/the-monk-of-mokha\">Bolinda Borrowbox in e-book format<\/a><\/strong> and it&#8217;s also available in our library catalogue <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kildare.spydus.ie\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/ENQ\/WPAC\/BIBENQ?ENTRY=the+monk+of+mokha+dave+eggers&amp;ENTRY_NAME=BS&amp;ENTRY_TYPE=K&amp;SORTS=SQL_REL_BIB&amp;GQ=the+monk+of+mokha+dave+eggers&amp;ISGLB=1&amp;NRECS=20&amp;QRY=&amp;QRYTEXT=Full+catalogue&amp;_SPQ=2\">here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Dave Eggers&nbsp; Genre: Adult Non-Fiction Review by: Orla Dave Eggers has polished his craft of writing by doing extensive research and it shows. He has a gift of being able to jump into the mindset of someone else and being able to inhabit their world. He delves into the history of coffee making and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182174489,"featured_media":6152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[258085,6925997],"tags":[771541787,312421,7215,3328,16166,78671,702194613,12499,602243395],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-non-fiction","category-book-reviews-and-recommendations","tag-adult-fiction","tag-adult-fiction-books","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-coffee","tag-dave-eggers","tag-kildare-libraries","tag-libraries","tag-the-monk-of-mokha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182174489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}