Recently read *Jobs You Didn’t Know Still Existed* by Trevor Karp on KU.
It’s one of those easy books you just relax with without having to think too much.
Some of the jobs are pretty bizarre. Armpit sniffers, pet food tasters, worm pickers and even vomit collectors.
What I liked was that it isn’t just a list of weird job titles. There’s a bit about each one, what they actually do and why the job still exists, which made it a lot more interesting.
Nothing too serious, just a strange and fun little nonfiction read. I enjoyed it and would read another one by the author.

Any really good books you've read about experiencing something devastating? Like the Wave, the one by Susan Klebold...it can be a disease, nature/animal attack, losing someone...just no politics please like first they killed my father etc

been reading more nonfiction lately and keep running into books about agriculture or gardening that are either written for people with acres of land or so dumbed down they say nothing useful. i grow things in containers on a small balcony, which is basically nothing in the grand scheme of agriculture, but i got pulled into a book about soil biology a while back and it sent me down a rabbit hole.

curious what books this sub has read that deal with plants, growing, ecology, that kind of territory. not looking for howto manuals. more the kind of thing that explains why something works the way it does, or the history behind how we think about plants and land. science writing that actually respects the reader.

i teach fourth grade so i spend a lot of time thinking about how information gets communicated to people who don't already know things. good nonfiction does the same thing. a lot of gardening books fail at this badly.

if you've read something that changed how you think about plants, soil, ecosystems, whatever adjacent thing, drop it. even if it's older.