SFist Reads

Every spring we have a major purge and get rid of a lot of the books we've accumulated over the past year. We sell what we can at a local used bookstore, before donating the rest to the Friends of the SFPL. Any recommendations on where we can get the biggest bang for our book sale? Let us know in the comments!

SFist Eve just finished The Brief History of the Dead. Half set in the after-life, where the dead remain until everyone living who remembers them has died, and half set in the near future, where a super-virus has killed every person on earth but one, TBHOTD is a beautifully written book with a cool concept. Unfortunately, it's as terribly unsatisfying as it is thought provocative, as we finished the book wondering "is that all there is?"

Since she was stuck on planes for a day, Mary-Lynn actually read a book. She's about 20 frustratingly close pages away from finishing Bill Buford's Heat, about his time spent learning to be a cook, mostly at the feet (and in the heat) of Mario Batali's own masters and kitchen.