Checklist Manifesto was great - any recs for other good but straightforward nonfic like that?
And I loved The Kid, but it is unabashedly Dan Savage, who I love even though he is often an asshole, so be warned. However, it is also a very sweet book. The Commitment, about whether he should get married to his partner, came later and is a bit more mellow (well, for Savage, at least) and I highly recommend it.
Alas, I don't have any other recs like that, unfortunately. The only other nonfic I've read in the last couple of years that I've really liked is Prime Obsession (Derbyshire), which is a good math/math-historical book about the Riemann hypothesis (if you're not into the actual math bits -- which I do think he does very well, but which can get to be a slog by the middle of the book -- every other chapter or so is entertaining/anecdotal math-historical and can be read without knowing any math), but it's certainly very different than Checklist.
...Yeah. Dan Savage, right. I can only take him in small doses, but I do like him in small doses, and I might be able to take a book if I went in bits and pieces.
Have you read Louise Penny's Three Pines mystery series? The writing is weak, but the mysteries are fairly well set up & the series very much falls into the concept of "village cozy" (which is apparently a recognized subset of mystery, but I only learned this last week!)
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Hm, The Kid sounds intriguing (is that the Dan Savage book, or am I mixing it up with something else?)
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Checklist Manifesto was great - any recs for other good but straightforward nonfic like that?
And I loved The Kid, but it is unabashedly Dan Savage, who I love even though he is often an asshole, so be warned. However, it is also a very sweet book. The Commitment, about whether he should get married to his partner, came later and is a bit more mellow (well, for Savage, at least) and I highly recommend it.
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...Yeah. Dan Savage, right. I can only take him in small doses, but I do like him in small doses, and I might be able to take a book if I went in bits and pieces.
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You will want to read them in order. The first one is Still Life.
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