What are you reading? (or books you highly recommend)

[casportpony]

Yes, this was a good book. Worth a second read for me since it's been well over 10 years past the first read.

I've been think about reading it again.

Kathy, do you read the journals & vet text books only when you have an issue to research or do you also read to learn?

Both.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I'm definitely going to check out Consider the Fork. Thanks!

x2!

And then you can learn all about the Eggbeater Bubble!

 

[BantyChooks]

Consider the Fork looks interesting to me too. Thanks, Kristen!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Consider the Fork looks interesting to me too. Thanks, Kristen!

And to go with that - another very interesting/engaging one is How Carrots Won the Trojan War. (Genre - Nonfiction - Food history)

(I may very well re-read that one this summer!)

 

[casportpony]

And then you can learn all about the Eggbeater Bubble!

Now I'm curious!

 

[BantyChooks]

I gotta recommend Fowl Weather. It's the sequel to Enslaved by Ducks, by Bob Tarte. It's hilarious, and he mentions ducks a lot, so how could it not be good? Google says the genre is "anecdotes."

 

[casportpony]

Have you read The Great Influenza?
Better yet, have you read A Prayer for the Dying? Fictionalized account of diphtheria outbreak in the 1800s. Amazing, and really frightening.
I bet you'd like Spillover by David Quammen if you liked The Hot Zone.

Thanks, gonna have to look into all of those!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

More interesting food books:

Salt: A World History (VERY good, though a little slow in places) (Nonfiction - History)
Cod: Biography of the fish that changed the world (Nonfiction - History)
The Third Plate (Non-fiction - not sure whether this is culinary or agriculture. Both, kinda)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (this book is actually what got me started on chickens) (Nonfiction - not sure of genre, basically a writer moves from Phoenix back to an Appalachian family farm and they raise all (almost) of their food for a year. )

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

(Books are overflowing my house. My parents' house is the same, despite the fact that they are heavy library users. Everyone is ALWAYS reading. I have a feeling I'm going to be posting on this thread a lot... )

 

[BantyChooks]

Can y'all put the genre in there, too? I'm putting them down in the 2nd post and it's a pain to look 'em all up, if you don't mind.

Or, with the volume of titles coming thru here, I might have to just give up now...