Today's Featured Book:
The Museum of Lost Things:
True Tales of Fabled Treasures, Legendary Cities, and
Mythical Creatures That Vanished From History
by Sam Kean
Genre: Nonfiction
Published: September 15, 2026
Page Count: 400 pages
Summary:
Discover the astonishing story of the world’s greatest lost treasures in this enthralling narrative by a writer with "the anecdotal flourishes of Oliver Sacks and the populist accessibility of Malcolm Gladwell." (Entertainment Weekly)
Spanning a million years of history, the mysteries in these pages include fabled relics, legendary cities, mythical species, and undeciphered languages that have bedeviled seekers for centuries.
After amassing one of the largest empires in history, Alexander the Great died unexpectedly at age 32 in Babylon in 323 BC. His retinue reported embalmed him with honey and spices and placed him in a golden sarcophagus draped with gaudy purple tapestries. But rather than let him rest in peace, his successors turned his body into a pawn in a power struggle so complex that George R. R. Martin himself would have been baffled.
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Whatever his (many) failings, the amateur Schliemann had taken on thousands of better-heeled, better-read, and frankly smarter scholars---scholars who thought him a boorish ass and lying scoundrel---and proved every single one of them wrong. He never tired in pointing this out. It was the best story he ever told, and it was completely true.
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A friend recommended The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (my review is here) in 2021. I discovered Sam Kean is one of those marvelous writers who can explain complex ideas in a way that makes them easily understood by regular people. So when I asked a publisher's representative at the Texas Library Association Conference about new nonfiction, and she pulled this advanced reader copy out and gave it to me, I was delighted. And it's a captivating read.
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I would love to play Book-opoly or The Little Bookshop or any other bookish game that might be out there. I'd like to play some of the bookish games that have already been created before I try to make my own.
Book themed board games? I’m thinking of Clue and Who the mystery games of the 50’s or earlier, and how a game could channel Agatha Christie. So a new board game based on a TV detective series could be neat (maybe one alreay exists)..
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“The Museum of Lost Things” sounds really fascinating.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds right up my alley. I've been reading lots of nonfiction this year.
ReplyDeleteI thought there was a bookish Monopoly board game out there; I just couldn't remember the name of it. My "bookish" board game idea is similar.
ReplyDeleteA bookish board game sounds awesome!
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