Today’s theme is supposed to be about our book wishlists — i.e. books we want to buy or receive — but I’m going to play with the theme a bit. Recently the ladyfriend and I were trapped in a bookstore by heavy rains (the horrors!), and I passed the time by coveting books, and taking pictures of those I wanted to read up on reviews for. (There’s a reason my average review score on goodreads is high: I’m fairly picky about books I commit to/buy.) But first, teases!
Ace raised a knife to the bottom of the great werewolf’s jaw, the tip steaming as silver poked through flesh. “Thinkin’s a bad look on you.”
The untouched country is where the greatest horrors lurk. Things that’ve been here since God spoke those famous words and created Heaven and Earth, or so it goes. Monsters that even most monsters fear. You see, there’s a reason that, so high up in these mountains, where ghosts won’t haunt—werewolves don’t even hunt. (Ace in the Hole, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle)
So, I’m going to share some books I ogled!
The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions — science history, something I haven’t hit in a while!
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure, on the potential uses of poop.
Giants of the Lost World. The cover puzzles me: it appears to be referring to South American megafauna, which makes me think of the giant ground sloth, not dinos.
Earthly Materials, on the science of our body’s..emissions.
Land Between the Rivers, a history of Iraq.
Welcome to Pawnee, stories about Parks and Recreation.
Source Code, a cleverly titled autobiography of Bill Gates. Another cute title in this section was Character Limit, a history of Elon Musk and twitter.
How Infrastructure Works, a revisit to a favorite topic.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe. I mostly looked at this one for the cover.
Psuedo Science. Always interesting to learn about conspiracy theories and the like, at least when I’m not having to “learn” about them by someone ranting to me at work where I have to smile blandly.
Reading Freely 
Giants of the Lost World and Pseudo Science both sound like good reads!
Wow! You have interesting picks and so are you and your blog. Love everything in it. You have just gained a fan.
Thanks so much!
What a horrible place to be stuck during a rainstorm!! It looks like you found some great books to consider.
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I know! AND we had coffee and smore cookies to contend with.
Oh dear! I’m glad you and your friend were able to survive and escape.
You want to read about the uses of poop? That is a very niche topic, I’d guess. Though I did read Mary Roach’s GULP a few years ago and there were lots of poop references in it.
Dealing with manure used to be a pretty normal thing — it remained inside the ecosystem, being reused as manure, that sort of thing. Now people are starting to see how disruptive not honoring the nutrient cycle is, and going back to it. But my reading tastes are very wide ranging — I’ve read multiple books on waste/garbage management!
These all sound interesting! I also take photos in the book shop and look them up on Goodreads later to see if they’d be worth it.
Earthly Materials sounds both interesting and awful. I’d read it. 🙂