This week, Booking Through Thursday asks:
What’s the most informative book you’ve read recently?
After much consideration, the winner is Life of Pi. Prior to Pi and Richard Parker, my knowledge of zookeeping practices was pretty nonexistent. Ditto for survival on a life raft. Though, if I suddenly found myself cracking a whip to train an insolent tiger (be it in a zoo cage or at sea), I won't even kid myself into imagining that I'd stand half a chance.
What say you, my informers? What informative goodies have you come across lately?
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Life of Pi was definitely one of the few required readings I had in high school that I actually enjoyed. Although it was bizarre. Wasn't there an island that was full of tree-dwelling meerkats? Or am I making things up?
I'd have to say that Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series is the most informative book(s) I've read. British occupation in India? How a British redcoat was supposed to be dressed according to rank? How to load a musket? All data stored in the ol' noggin now.
There WAS an island of tree meerkats--I was totally on board with Life of Pi until that bit. Plus, the island was "carnivorous."
The Sharpe series sounds super informative! If I ever have any musket questions, I'll know who to contact! ;)
Mine would have to be Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything," which-- although I enjoyed it a lot-- is still informataion that, let's face it, I'll never use.
John Mutford- I read Bryson's Made in American a few years back and found myself howling with laughter page after page. I'll have to check out this work as well!
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