What’s your niche interest? And what book would you recommend for people to learn more about it?

I’m sure most people have one, so I’m curious!

(For the sake of clarity, I mean a specific sub-genre of a more general subject. Instead of ‘geography’ (too general), maybe something like coastal erosion or tectonic plates.)

For example, my current niche interest is radium and the use of it as a ‘cure all’ in the early twentieth century. I’ve read Radium Girls by Kate Moore and its grimly fascinating: how much money was tied up in making people believe in the wonders of radium, how many people suffered and died as a consequence of that misinformation, and how radium made its way into the most everyday of items like toothpaste and energy drinks! If you have any recommendations for more books on radium, I’d love to see them.

Hello! Is anyone else completing the NYT Book Review's Summer Reading Bucket List this year? If so, I'd love accountability partners, suggestions, etc.! Just let me know!

Hello! Is anyone else completing the NYT Book Review's Summer Reading Bucket List this year? If so, I'd love accountability partners, suggestions, etc.! Just let me know!

Happy Sunday, PB posse! I'm curious about the last book that gave you such big feelings, you just had to let them out. Tell me about it!

The last book that made me cry (with laughter) is my current read, A Parade of Horribles, book 8 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series! There have been multiple times where I've stared at the page and then burst out laughing, because what did I just read? Matt Dinniman's imagination knows no bounds. 😂

When you guys read a series from an omnibus (multiple works in one book) how do you typically log that reading? Right now I am reading a duology, but I own the omnibus version so it’s both (full length) books in one book, but I am logging it as the two separate books. Last year I read a trilogy that was in the form of an omnibus and I also logged it as three seperate books.

I ask because I told someone this last year, that I was reading an omnibus but logging it separately, and they told me that it was disingenuous. Since I was technically reading it as one book, I should log it as one book. I felt this was ridiculous but want to know how common of an opinion that was (will not attack you if it IS your opinion btw! I’m genuinely asking to see if it’s more common of an attitude than I thought)

Also, does your opinion change if it’s shorter works? If it was a collection of short stories or even poems and each individual work had it’s own listing as well as the omnibus, would you go through and log/rate them individually or would you do it all together as a collection?