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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
Finished reading Rusty Nail, which was engaging. Now I am reading Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky. One wouldn't think that something as mundane as paper would be the subject of a history book, nor actually interesting to read, but there you go-- it is. This is the same author who wrote a history of salt; and it makes me wonder what his next book is going to be about.
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I enjoyed Kurlansky's
The Big Oyster, a history of New York through the prism of its oyster industry.