I’d never heard of kubb, a lawn game of Swedish extraction, until reading about it in a new book by local Internet guru Garrick van Buren.
Garrick educates readers about the cool game, but “Rebuilding Blocks” isn’t just about that.
He also describes how the game helped him recalibrate an impossibly busy, badly prioritized, depression-tinged professional life that was slowly destroying him.
Therein lies a paradox: How on Earth did he find time for kubb? That he was able to do so is a fascinating tale in itself.
With precise yet poetic prose, Garrick weaves together stories of his increasingly proficient kubb matches with analyses of how the lawn sport … saved him.
This is not a long book; you can power through it an evening, and you’ll likely be the better for it. In fact, it could change your life.
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