I don't think I have a favourite. I have some that I liked enough as to read them more than once: The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarilion, some of the Culture novels.
Then there are long series that I enjoyed quite a bit: Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome, JJ Benitez's Caballo de Troya series (if you ignore the author's insistence in that everything in the book is real and you take it as an adventures book or science fiction it is actually enjoyable), I'm liking so far McBride's detective Logan McRae series.
And I'm about to begin Mikel Santiago's La Chica del Lago
I have no idea what is called in English. I just work at a car park. Just above minimal wage, it pays my bills, finances my hobbies, is stable and once I'm out of the door at the end of my shift it is not my problem anymore.
Where I live there's a refinery, about ten years ago they changed the burners on the tall torches for a new kind that burn apparently cleaner but they make a lot more noise. It is 6km away with no direct line of sight, the low pitch rumble makes some of the windows in my house rattle.
In a single month? Apprentice level skills of any trade. Learning to change a faucet, fix a lamp or adjust the length of a pair of trousers are skills that will pay off long term an maybe motivate you to learn more.
Depending on what you consider natural and efficient.
If mining is natural there is some volcanic stuff that is nutrient rich. If by natural you mean organic, compost piles produce good fertilisers but they are not as efficient as some might say. They take quite some time to complete their process and get it's nutrients available for growing plants. Not being efficient doesn't mean they aren't good. They are a great way to dispose or organic material and even if compost releases its nutrients very slowly it contributes to the soil health in many other ways that I would say are more important, like increasing biodiversity, making the soil more resistant to changes in pH and facilitating retention of nutrients so they don't wash out with rain.
Depending on what you plan to grow you don't need to buy seeds.
Tomatoes, you can squeeze the seeds out of a tomato and they will grow (better if it is a variety that is not an hybrid).Garlic, each clove is a future plant.Potatoes, cut them in half or into quarters if they big, let the cut part dry overnight and plant them.
What else? Unless you're starting on a very empoverished soil, as others have said I wouldn't worry about fertilisers. If I needed it I would buy a 25Kg bag of NPK and that would last me for years in a small garden. Depending on where you live that could be a bit challenging to buy, I live in a rural area so that is easy enough to find.
I don't think I visualise the word. At the end of the word I still remember what word I wrote and how to spell it. In other languages the spelling part it is easier because they have spelling rules so if you know how a word is pronounced you usually know how to spell it.
The only place I know is one called La Traviesa, in Torredembarra, Catalonia, northern Spain. I just checked and to my surprise there is a bunch of videos on youtube.
I don't think I have a favourite. I have some that I liked enough as to read them more than once: The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarilion, some of the Culture novels.
Then there are long series that I enjoyed quite a bit: Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome, JJ Benitez's Caballo de Troya series (if you ignore the author's insistence in that everything in the book is real and you take it as an adventures book or science fiction it is actually enjoyable), I'm liking so far McBride's detective Logan McRae series.
And I'm about to begin Mikel Santiago's La Chica del Lago