That sounds absolutely fascinating! I love hyper-specific nonfiction like that. I once read a book about the history of coffee and I learned so much more than I expected.

I just looked this up and it sounds hella intriguing. I love me some sci-fi, but I often find it long-winded. Definitely giving this a gander.

Definitely adding it to my vacation stack. The coffee one was “Coffee A Global History” by Jonathan Harris (or Morris? I can’t recall which). But it was really interesting and not very long. Short and sweet.

Ugh, SUCH a good book. I wish I could read it for the first time again, too. I fucking love Carl Sagan.

This sounds like a wonderful read. So many books on nature tend to get bogged down by the science of things or by the magic of them. This sounds like it found the perfect balance. Adding this one to the cart as well.

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (the whole series, really) by Jonathan L. Howard. Hilarious, engaging, satirical dark comedy mixed with fantasy, pure excellence from the dude who wrote the Broken Sword games. One of my favorite series, hands down.

The Bobiverse sounds so fun xD

I can totally relate to this. We had to read it in school (American system school) and there was no mention of the historical context. When I had to read it again in college, it broke my brain and made me want to revisit so many books I’d read in the past in search of whatever deeper context I might have missed or wasn’t made aware of back in school. Same thing happened to me with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake after I reread them with added guides. Those rereads made me fall in love with James Joyce. Literature never ceases to amaze me with its ability to short-circuit our brains.