Today’s treble-T is covers with things found in nature, so off to the science shelves I go. Et voila!

Time for Tuesday teases!

I have changed the names of many characters in this book, because most of those people own guns.

Boredom, I knew, was a dangerous thing. For some children, it led to experiments with sex, and drugs, and alcohol, and lighting one another on fire, sometimes with the alcohol. For some of us, the never-ending rural ennui led to destructive habits with literature.

The World’s Largest Man, Harrison Scott Key

[Washington Park’s] prime tenant was a team with the wonderful designation of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, so named because several of its members chose to marry shortly after the team was formed.

After several years of suffering, the team’s marketing officials tried to make the most of the situation by offering “Croix de Candlestick” pins to fans who stayed through the rare extra inning night games, which showed a snow-capped version of the team’s monogram and had the Latin motto Veni, Vidi, Vixi (slightly changed to “I came, I saw, I survived”). 

Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, Paul Goldberger

Genesis never disappoints, crammed as it is with nudity, murder, and many delicious set pieces involving nudity and murder in addition to DIY boatbuilding instructions.

You can’t help but laugh at these people, who behave exactly like people. When Adam and Eve break the rules and eat the fruit and their eyes are opened and human history begins and God shows up and asks if they did the One Thing He Asked Them Not to Do, Adam, the first man, paterfamilias of all humankind, the archetype for every loving husband in human history, rats out his wife and disappears into the shrubbery.

How To Stay Married, Harrison Scott Key