reading with a view

enjoying the views and bringing a book along for the ride

[oldsolidbooks]

Old Solid Book Asks 📚

🐓 A book that can open a reader's eyes, wake their mind

🫖 A book that is comfortable, safe, home

🪐 A book you keep coming back to, after some time

🎠 A whimsical read, strangely sweet

🌂 A book that makes you feel understood, even more so than you understanding it

🛶 A book that is good company when no one else is there

🪅 A book that came as a complete surprise to you

🐿 A series you'd like to have more and more and more of

👒 A book that you like, but not for the reason most people do

📖 A book you'd always recommend, regardless of the other's usual taste

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[cardiacanes]

I haven't read it in a while but The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy by Pietra Rivoli is a really interesting examination of cotton as a global crop

[reading-with-a-view]

Hnghhhhhh so many new books I just learned I must read!

[reading-with-a-view]

Another hill, but this one wasn't so steep. And I was visited by little gopher friends

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Clear skies and little waves

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A little stop before my hair appt

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The water gets me every time

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Snuck up on the botanical building just before it reopened

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Catching that sunset

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If you can survive the stairs, the view from the top of a hill is always a good choice

[reading-with-a-view]

I freaking forgot the book but the view was too good to pass up not posting

[reading-with-a-view]

By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea

[wheel-of-fish]

my toxic trait is requesting library books faster than I can read them

[simplymarge1974]

Here are some interesting facts about books:

1. Harvard University Library has four books bound in human skin.

2. Iceland tops the world in per capita book reading.

3. People who read books are less likly to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

4. In Brazilian prisons, reading a book can reduce a prisoner's sentnce by four days.

5. Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.

6. The most stolen book is the Bible.

7. Roosevelt read an average of one book per day.

8. There are over 20,000 books written about chess.

9. Victor Hugo’s "Les Misérables" contains a sentence with 823 words.

10. Words like "hurry" and "addiction" were invented by Shakespeare.

11. If all the books in the New York Public Library were lined up, they would stretch 8 miles.

12. Leo Tolstoy's wife hand-copied the manuscript of "War and Peace" seven times.

13. Noah Webster took 36 years to write his first dictionary.

14. The Mahabharata is the only book or epic in the world with over 1,200 characters.

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

would anyone wanna do a readathon next week?

say from, the 24th to the 30th? in your own time zone, to keep it simple

basically we would just be trying to read as much as we can over the week, sharing updates, reviews, photos etc. and chatting amongst ourselves as we go

reblog if you're interested and if we get a nice contingent together, I'll make up a tag for us to use ^.^

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[reading-with-a-view]

Another cloudless summer day

[reading-with-a-view]

I am very good at finding the view and very bad at remembering to bring a physical book, but today I remembered!