A review by happentobeshort
Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell by Jude Stewart

informative fast-paced

2.5

It started off fun and interesting, but then each section ended so abruptly and it started feeling like I was reading a listicle of sorts instead of a book. Each section was a collection of smells that were grouped together for what felt like arbitrary reasons, with Stewart talking about her personal experience with them as well as their actual history - of which the latter was more interesting.

She also kept trying to explain how things smelled to HER which was a bit boring to read sometimes lol... Luckily I was listening to this via Audiobook on like 1.75x speed while sewing so it wasn't such a struggle for me lolllllll.

IDK. I feel let down by this book because it wasn't as detailed or analytical as I expected.. I guess the runtime should have been a good indicator for me that it wasn't going to be as all encompassing as I wanted as the runtime was around the same as This Is Your Mind on Plants and Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. I think Jude Stewart bit off more than she could chew with this book and wanted to cover a LOT but ended up not covering anything in great detail... Just my o(pi)nion...