Tag: Gem Original

From Gems Press. 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. 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. See on Amazon.*

From Gems Press. Gem’s Fascinating Leisure Reader: Volume Two shares the best of our recent discoveries from deserving but long-neglected texts. This volume includes three dozen of our new favorite anecdotes and passages, ones we think you’ll really enjoy and find interesting, gathered into book form. Gem’s Readers are basically bathroom readers for smart people. Some of the excerpts are funny; some are rather odd or alarming (although they should not give you nightmares); but they are all, in their way, fascinating. Some are poignant, some are wise, some bits may even be enlightening or may — uh-oh — give you ideas, but the unifying thread is that we found them all well worth reading. So we rescued them from oblivion and present them here for your delectation. See on Amazon.*