50 Book Challenge-2012
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34. Post-Car Adventuring: The San Francisco Bay Area, 2nd Edition, by Justin Eichenlaub and Kelly Gregory
They list destinations, have a map, and directions of how to get to said destination, especially if they think it would surprise the reader that you can get to it carless--like Yosemite. A little general advice on finding obscure transit buses if you're visiting other areas too.
35. Zinester's Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide to Living In and Visting Portland, OR, 5th Edition, Edited by Shawn Granton
Some things don't change, like organizing the book by sector and the city's history. It's nice to know that Vodoo Donuts is still waiting for me to become yet another tourist to have a penis-shaped donut. But it's also nice to know that a new metal pizzeria has opened since whatever edition I read previously.
36. Cafe Life New York: An Insider's Guide to the City's Neighborhood Cafes, by Sandy Miller and Photography by Juliana Spear
When my college's women's center went on a trip to Northampton, I got this at Booklinks. The different books in the series take a city and its neighborhoods, showcase a few cafes with pretty pictures and backstories, then ends the neighborhood sections with a "short cup" list--a listing of other cafes of note, but no pretty pictures and backstories. The West Village's Joe, the Art of Coffee uses Barrington Coffee Roasting Company of Great Barrington, MA's beans and the author notes that those roasters started with a hot air popper in their college dorm. Anyone want to give me a hot air popper to experiment in my room? Park Slope's Tea Lounge uses their back up espresso machine's steamer to make an "eggspresso" or scrambled eggs. I want to order one.
37. Travel as a Politcal Act by Rick Steve
He divides the book according to countries he's been to and talks about the lessons we can learn from their different cultures. There's also general advocacy to travel and learn from one another.
38. The Watchmen by Alan Moore
Originally I started this on the train ride home for Thanksgiving, but I had to hand my school mate's copy back to her when we parted ways in Springfield. So when I was done with exams and had time to waste before bikergeek could extract me from VT, I spent a few days reading the library's copy that had been put on reserve for some humanities class. I'm doubtful that humanity would actually bond together for long if a squid-like "alien" dropped onto New York and killed a chunk of the population. When reading a Dr. Manhattan chapter and seeing him watching his entire timeline made me think, I can claim to have been in the same room as my grandfather yet not have been in the same room as my grandfather. He died 2 years before I was born, but I've visited his house since his 2nd wife owns it. So if the past is happenning at the same time as the present and future, I was in the same room as him yet not in the same room as him.
39. Nothing Mattress by Brian Connolly
A punk from South Boston who writes an often autobiographical and episodic comic from Boston's alternative weekly, The Dig. Now he's made a little booklet with his work. Quick and humourous read.
34. Post-Car Adventuring: The San Francisco Bay Area, 2nd Edition, by Justin Eichenlaub and Kelly Gregory
They list destinations, have a map, and directions of how to get to said destination, especially if they think it would surprise the reader that you can get to it carless--like Yosemite. A little general advice on finding obscure transit buses if you're visiting other areas too.
35. Zinester's Guide to Portland: A Low/No Budget Guide to Living In and Visting Portland, OR, 5th Edition, Edited by Shawn Granton
Some things don't change, like organizing the book by sector and the city's history. It's nice to know that Vodoo Donuts is still waiting for me to become yet another tourist to have a penis-shaped donut. But it's also nice to know that a new metal pizzeria has opened since whatever edition I read previously.
36. Cafe Life New York: An Insider's Guide to the City's Neighborhood Cafes, by Sandy Miller and Photography by Juliana Spear
When my college's women's center went on a trip to Northampton, I got this at Booklinks. The different books in the series take a city and its neighborhoods, showcase a few cafes with pretty pictures and backstories, then ends the neighborhood sections with a "short cup" list--a listing of other cafes of note, but no pretty pictures and backstories. The West Village's Joe, the Art of Coffee uses Barrington Coffee Roasting Company of Great Barrington, MA's beans and the author notes that those roasters started with a hot air popper in their college dorm. Anyone want to give me a hot air popper to experiment in my room? Park Slope's Tea Lounge uses their back up espresso machine's steamer to make an "eggspresso" or scrambled eggs. I want to order one.
37. Travel as a Politcal Act by Rick Steve
He divides the book according to countries he's been to and talks about the lessons we can learn from their different cultures. There's also general advocacy to travel and learn from one another.
38. The Watchmen by Alan Moore
Originally I started this on the train ride home for Thanksgiving, but I had to hand my school mate's copy back to her when we parted ways in Springfield. So when I was done with exams and had time to waste before bikergeek could extract me from VT, I spent a few days reading the library's copy that had been put on reserve for some humanities class. I'm doubtful that humanity would actually bond together for long if a squid-like "alien" dropped onto New York and killed a chunk of the population. When reading a Dr. Manhattan chapter and seeing him watching his entire timeline made me think, I can claim to have been in the same room as my grandfather yet not have been in the same room as my grandfather. He died 2 years before I was born, but I've visited his house since his 2nd wife owns it. So if the past is happenning at the same time as the present and future, I was in the same room as him yet not in the same room as him.
39. Nothing Mattress by Brian Connolly
A punk from South Boston who writes an often autobiographical and episodic comic from Boston's alternative weekly, The Dig. Now he's made a little booklet with his work. Quick and humourous read.
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Date: 2012-12-28 12:40 am (UTC)Certainly travel is a political act, but what about politically incorrect travel? Wouldn't want to leave that undocumented! Sultry Climes is a good start, and signficantly more disturbing than the Amazon description...
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