The basic deal is that I'll post my book reviews here with links to a purchase place on amazon. If you click the link and buy, I get a small cut of the purchase at no cost to you. So, if you read the review and see a book you want, just click through and buy. 

 

I have a huge backlog of books I'd like to recommend, so I'm starting this with a few favorites from June to see how it goes. If it seems like a good idea, I'll start doing a weekly review of what I've been reading, and we'll make this A Thing.

 

June 9 - Grunt (Mary Roach)

-Mary Roach is always a delight. The is the funniest and weird popular science writer working. This book is about stuff related to soldiering, though it’s a bit more wide-ranging than some of her other books.

 

June 17 - Ava’s Man (Bragg)

-I am just in love with Bragg. Here he gives a biography of his grandfather, a moonshine-making mountaineer, really from a different era. Great prose and great stories.

 

June 19 - All Creatures Great and Small (Herriot)

 

-A great little collection of semi-fictionalized stories about being a veterinarian to a small farming community in Yorkshire in the first half of the 20th century. I really enjoyed these. The sequels are more of the same, and though none are quite as good as the first book, they're all excellent.