50 Book Challenge-2012
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tenshikurai918. Dick Strangely's Graveyard Girl: Book One-Graphic novel about a girl who's dead, has no memory of her past, and digs-up animals to keep her company.
19. Young Lovecraft by Jose Oliver and Bartolo Torres-Imagine Lovecraft as a child who has supernatural things happen to him as he goes about everyday life, like being an exchange student.
20. A People's Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng-History from the perspective of sites of importance to identity movements, community organizing, and environmental activism. Like the lot that used to be the Black Panther's HQ or the site where a prison was going to go before it got blocked or the incinerator that never got built.
21. The Professional Shopper by Beatrice-Mostly a list of LA stores with some New York stores (including a guy selling linens on a NYC street corner.) Gratuitious use of exclamation marks and capitalization and references to mentioning some store in "the novel" without explanation as to what is "the novel." At least the list of wholesalers (and some retailers) is long and I got a copy for free from the coffee shop that's in the same building as the West Hollywood library.
22. Young, Broke & Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply by Broke-Ass Stuart with Jill Strominger-I got all three Broke-Ass Stuart books plus a different book with Amazon gift cards I got through Bing points. The IFC travel host mentions a few times something that one should never forget. Tip! Don't be so cheap that you skip it.
23. Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in New York City by Broke-Ass Stuart-Broken-down by neighborhood and further broken-down by Food, Bars, Shopping, and Sights & Entertainment. There's an intro to each neighborhood and a cap-off with a map of everything mentioned and the addition of something amusing, like a pretending to mark-off where the Goth teenager is standing in and around St. Mark's Place.
24. Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco by Broke-Ass Stuart-Same as above except with San Francisco and done first because he's a Cali boy. Before he got to the point of doing books, he was doing zines of the same concept.
25. The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City by Rob Grader, 4th edition-One of those books that I bought at the Providence Borders when they were shutting-down. Turns-out they come-out every two years and this was already the second most recent edition at the time. Turns-out MyOpenBar.com is mentioned in this and Broke-Ass Stuart's New York guide. (Regular e-mail list of open bar events.)
26. Bicycle Touring & Camping by Edward F. Dolan, Jr.-Assumes an audience of a child when it talks about getting your principal to help with getting more bicycle safety information. The book is from 1982 and doesn't seem to make references to doing the actual camping with an adult. It gives some basic information on street riding, camping, and maintenance. So it's a nice intro.
27. Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases, and Other Places in the United States You're Not Supposed to Know About by Harry Helms-but that doesn't change that there's publicly available information that this guy has carefully compiled by state. A few sites are historical and no longer off limits like the Manzanar Relocation Center. Most of what I've read so far are partially or fully blocked-off from public view (I'm a few entries away from finishing.) Rhode Island is a unit of measurement. There's been something like 4 or 5 sites larger than RI (and still off-limits.)
19. Young Lovecraft by Jose Oliver and Bartolo Torres-Imagine Lovecraft as a child who has supernatural things happen to him as he goes about everyday life, like being an exchange student.
20. A People's Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng-History from the perspective of sites of importance to identity movements, community organizing, and environmental activism. Like the lot that used to be the Black Panther's HQ or the site where a prison was going to go before it got blocked or the incinerator that never got built.
21. The Professional Shopper by Beatrice-Mostly a list of LA stores with some New York stores (including a guy selling linens on a NYC street corner.) Gratuitious use of exclamation marks and capitalization and references to mentioning some store in "the novel" without explanation as to what is "the novel." At least the list of wholesalers (and some retailers) is long and I got a copy for free from the coffee shop that's in the same building as the West Hollywood library.
22. Young, Broke & Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply by Broke-Ass Stuart with Jill Strominger-I got all three Broke-Ass Stuart books plus a different book with Amazon gift cards I got through Bing points. The IFC travel host mentions a few times something that one should never forget. Tip! Don't be so cheap that you skip it.
23. Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in New York City by Broke-Ass Stuart-Broken-down by neighborhood and further broken-down by Food, Bars, Shopping, and Sights & Entertainment. There's an intro to each neighborhood and a cap-off with a map of everything mentioned and the addition of something amusing, like a pretending to mark-off where the Goth teenager is standing in and around St. Mark's Place.
24. Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco by Broke-Ass Stuart-Same as above except with San Francisco and done first because he's a Cali boy. Before he got to the point of doing books, he was doing zines of the same concept.
25. The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City by Rob Grader, 4th edition-One of those books that I bought at the Providence Borders when they were shutting-down. Turns-out they come-out every two years and this was already the second most recent edition at the time. Turns-out MyOpenBar.com is mentioned in this and Broke-Ass Stuart's New York guide. (Regular e-mail list of open bar events.)
26. Bicycle Touring & Camping by Edward F. Dolan, Jr.-Assumes an audience of a child when it talks about getting your principal to help with getting more bicycle safety information. The book is from 1982 and doesn't seem to make references to doing the actual camping with an adult. It gives some basic information on street riding, camping, and maintenance. So it's a nice intro.
27. Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases, and Other Places in the United States You're Not Supposed to Know About by Harry Helms-but that doesn't change that there's publicly available information that this guy has carefully compiled by state. A few sites are historical and no longer off limits like the Manzanar Relocation Center. Most of what I've read so far are partially or fully blocked-off from public view (I'm a few entries away from finishing.) Rhode Island is a unit of measurement. There's been something like 4 or 5 sites larger than RI (and still off-limits.)
