From Gems Press
by Gem Groom
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With Gem’s Fascinating Leisure Reader: Volume One, our aim is to delight and amaze you with the most interesting anecdotes in existence — ones that you would otherwise never encounter. These gems don’t see the light of day often enough — if ever — because they appear in books that are no longer new. They sink into oblivion, and all their sparkle is wasted.
Bathroom Readers for Smart People
We’ve gathered dozens of our favorite anecdotes and passages into a book we think you’ll enjoy and find interesting. Gem’s Readers are basically bathroom readers for smart people.
It’s our pleasure to find these enticing bits and share them with you. We’ve included nothing we wouldn’t be pleased to read at bedtime and take with us into dreamland — nothing ugly or unduly upsetting. The idea is to give you a collection of appealing and unexpected true tales and musings that you can immerse yourself in any time you have leisure moments to enjoy.
Adventures Great and Small
This volume takes you on a visit to Heaven and Hell (two historic Montmartre nightclubs that sound like way more fun than any clubs we know today). We’ll take you to mid-19th-century India as a doctor tries to solve the mystery of what causes malaria (why does staying awake when traveling through malarial areas help protect you from the miasma?). Among the 36 stories in this book, you’ll find advice — maybe not-so-good advice — for writing love letters, even if you’re not yet acquainted with the person you admire. You’ll find out how a girl born in prison became the wife of a king, and why a baseball legend likes to bully the catcher.
In these excerpts of adventures great and small, you’ll get to hang out with a number of people who are having a good time in ways that might not have occurred to you. There are also people having a bad time, but usefully and/or in an entertaining way. And sometimes the subject of the excerpt hardly matters, the flow of the words through your mind is so enjoyable.
Whether your leisure moments consist of languid hours of reading in bed, or are found while waiting at the dentist’s office, commuting on the light rail, or zoning out over lunch — or perhaps leisure can be found in your life only by retreating to the throne room and locking the door — these excerpts will take you away to another world, clear your palate of today’s ways and concerns, and remind you that life is a rich and tempting smorgasbord of infinite possibilities.
You may want to also check out Volume Two.
