When: Thursday 8/20/09, around 6:00 PM
Where: Garden St. & Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Who: Male, early 30s
What: Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
Walking and reading at the same time along the sidewalk beside the Old Burying Ground. Very dangerous thing to do on a sidewalk made of bricks.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Almost missed my stop recording this one
When: Sunday 8/16/09, around 6:00 PM
Where: MBTA 73 bus, outbound
Who: Female, 20s
What: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
With this rather trippy cover (the 1997 Vintage edition). Image from WorldCat.
First sighting of a prolific writer
When: Sunday 8/16/09, around 3:45 PM
Where:MBTA Red Line, going towards Alewife, between Park St. and Harvard
Who: Male, 50s
What: Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 by Thomas Friedman
Published in 2002...I wonder what the sequel will be like.
Where:MBTA Red Line, going towards Alewife, between Park St. and Harvard
Who: Male, 50s
What: Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 by Thomas Friedman
Published in 2002...I wonder what the sequel will be like.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Does anyone else find the phrase "finger lickin'" really gross?
When: Friday 8/14/09, 1:00 PM
Where: Crane Beach, Ipswich, MA
Who:Female, 40s
What: Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
I was hoping to get some more "beach reading" sightings than these two, but I was too busy having my own fun, I guess.
Where: Crane Beach, Ipswich, MA
Who:Female, 40s
What: Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
I was hoping to get some more "beach reading" sightings than these two, but I was too busy having my own fun, I guess.
Long subtitle much?
When: Friday 8/14/09, 1:00 PM
Where: Crane Beach, Ipswich, MA
Who: Female, 60s
What: Fleeced: how Barack Obama, media mockery of terrorist threats, liberals who want to kill talk radio, the do-nothing Congress, companies that help Iran, and Washington lobbyists for foreign governments are scamming us-- and what to do about it by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Oy vey.
Where: Crane Beach, Ipswich, MA
Who: Female, 60s
What: Fleeced: how Barack Obama, media mockery of terrorist threats, liberals who want to kill talk radio, the do-nothing Congress, companies that help Iran, and Washington lobbyists for foreign governments are scamming us-- and what to do about it by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Oy vey.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Enchiladas & crime
When: Monday 8/3/09, 8:00 PM
Where: Border Cafe in Cambridge, downstairs
Who: Male, late 60s
What: Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation, ed. Michael Connelly
I may have noticed this particularly because I just got back from said city. My favorite story titles in this collection: "Rolling the Bones" and "Death of a Whale in the Church of Elvis."
Where: Border Cafe in Cambridge, downstairs
Who: Male, late 60s
What: Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation, ed. Michael Connelly
I may have noticed this particularly because I just got back from said city. My favorite story titles in this collection: "Rolling the Bones" and "Death of a Whale in the Church of Elvis."
Monday, August 10, 2009
The reader was furiously underlining
When: Friday 7/31/09, sometime in the early afternoon
Where: MBTA Red Line, going towards Braintree, between Harvard and Park St.
Who: Male, 30s
What: How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
I wish I could better separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to this type of book. Book reviews, I guess.
Where: MBTA Red Line, going towards Braintree, between Harvard and Park St.
Who: Male, 30s
What: How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
I wish I could better separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to this type of book. Book reviews, I guess.
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