Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Blast from the academic past

When: Sunday 5/16/10, 12:30 PM
Where: MBTA Red Line, going toward Ashmont , between Harvard and Park St.
Who: Male, early 30s
What: The Bisexual Option by Fred Klein

I wrote a paper on this book in college! I went looking for a "primary source" on bisexuality and this was really all I could find in my college library. It was first published in 1978, and you can tell.

Monday, August 9, 2010

From the French

When: Sunday 5/16/10, 12:30 PM
Where: MBTA Red Line, going toward Ashmont , between Harvard and Park St.
Who: Female, 30s
What: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

I didn't realize, until I looked this book up in WorldCat, that it had been translated from French. I always assumed it was British for some reason.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Going to catch up on posting...really

When: Saturday 5/15/10, 3:00 PM
Where: MBTA Red Line, going toward Braintree, between Harvard and Park St.
Who: Female, 20s
What: Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card

This woman took her book out of a Brookline Booksmith bag, one of my two favorite bookstores in the Greater Boston Area.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Black Book on the Red Line

When: Saturday 4/3/10, 1:30 PM
Where: MBTA Red Line, going toward Braintree, between Harvard and Park St.
Who: Male, 60s
What: The Black Book by M.A. Harris

WorldCat's synopsis: "Copiously illustrated scrap-book on folk culture of black people from early days of slavery through the present." Interesting.

The girl who smiled while reading

When: Saturday 4/3/10, 1:30 PM
Where: MBTA Red Line, going toward Braintree, between Harvard and Park St.
Who: Female, 20s
What: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

This book's second appearance. The woman reading it was smiling real big.

Prisoners on the moon

When: Thursday 3/25/10, 5:45 PM
Where: MBTA Green Line (C Line), outbound, between Park St. and Kenmore
Who: Male,20s
What: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

For some reason I thought this was a much older book (it was published in 1966). Maybe I was thinking of The Moon and Sixpence.

Not that kind of better

When: Thursday 3/25/10, 5:45 PM
Where: MBTA Green Line (C Line), outbound, between Park St. and Kenmore
Who: Male,20s
What: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

I had assumed this book was about health care, but I guess it's more of a self-help book, which is sort of disappointing.