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I AM FEELING STRESSED. Therefore books!
Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery by Steve Hindy, about a pair of microbrewer entrepreneurs. Had some good points, actually! And was a fairly fun light read.
Blood Song by Cat Adams, about a bodyguard with a messy job. Good urban fantasy with well-drawn characters. However, goddamn someone needed to hack at those loose plot threads with a machete (and maybe some of the minor characters, since I couldn't keep track of them all).
First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat into a Cultural Phenomenon by Darren Rovell. Interesting! I have a fondness for business histories, to be honest, and Gatorade has an interesting history.
In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan, about the fire of London, the execution of Charles, and a faerie queen. Yep, didn't like this as much as the first. I think the writing's fine, but it was just less focused and didn't have as clear a concept underlying it as the first.
Gaia's Garden, Second edition: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway. I always thought the whole idea of permaculture was freaking brilliant. Seriously, a pretty garden that grows lots of food that you don't have to constantly tend? SIGN ME IN, DUDES. I admire any design that allows you to do less work and worry in the long run because it's right the first time, and permaculture's the only form of gardening I can ever even vaguely see myself doing. So this was an interesting and informative book! Not that I'll put it into practice any time soon but knowledge is knowledge.
I think I finished one of my comfort books too, but they kind of blur into each other and summing up rereads bores me anyway.
Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery by Steve Hindy, about a pair of microbrewer entrepreneurs. Had some good points, actually! And was a fairly fun light read.
Blood Song by Cat Adams, about a bodyguard with a messy job. Good urban fantasy with well-drawn characters. However, goddamn someone needed to hack at those loose plot threads with a machete (and maybe some of the minor characters, since I couldn't keep track of them all).
First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat into a Cultural Phenomenon by Darren Rovell. Interesting! I have a fondness for business histories, to be honest, and Gatorade has an interesting history.
In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan, about the fire of London, the execution of Charles, and a faerie queen. Yep, didn't like this as much as the first. I think the writing's fine, but it was just less focused and didn't have as clear a concept underlying it as the first.
Gaia's Garden, Second edition: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway. I always thought the whole idea of permaculture was freaking brilliant. Seriously, a pretty garden that grows lots of food that you don't have to constantly tend? SIGN ME IN, DUDES. I admire any design that allows you to do less work and worry in the long run because it's right the first time, and permaculture's the only form of gardening I can ever even vaguely see myself doing. So this was an interesting and informative book! Not that I'll put it into practice any time soon but knowledge is knowledge.
I think I finished one of my comfort books too, but they kind of blur into each other and summing up rereads bores me anyway.