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Calling all nerds 🤓📚

I don’t know about you, but I love learning! Besides the homework, I sort of miss being in school just for the experience of learning something new and cool. The great part about being an adult is I can choose what I want to learn about!

Here are some #nonfiction picks I grabbed recently:

🍃 The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman is a biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louis Bromfield, focusing on his transformation into a pioneering organic farmer and early environmentalist. The book details how Bromfield used his literary success to create an influential experimental farm, Malabar, in Ohio, which became a hub for sustainable agriculture and a retreat for celebrities, laying groundwork for the modern organic food movement.

🗡️ Book and Dagger by Elyse Graham tells the story of how the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) recruited academics, librarians, and other humanities scholars to become spies during WWII, using their research skills for intelligence gathering, which helped shape modern espionage and post-war higher education.

I’m excited to dive into these and learn something new! I especially want to read more about agricultural and environmental issues - if anyone has any recs, send em my way!

#QOTD: any nonfiction books on your tbr?