The SFMOMA recently reopened after a years long renovation-holds some great stuff! All photo credits to Amazing Amy-thank you thank you! This is the well known center column thingy.
-by Janet Evanovich
Dangerous Minds: super fluffy mystery. The love story is annoying but I was okay with the other characters and the background mystery.
-by Roxanne Gay
Ayaiti: I've been meaning to read her for some time now and this was in the airport bookstore. Stories of life in Haiti, so little peeks into how others live. Not surprisingly like Edwidge Danticat.
Hunger: This is an open wound of a book. It is all of her thoughts about unhappiness with her body. Yikes-hard to read except in small spurts. And yet so good-glad to have read it.
Hunger: This is an open wound of a book. It is all of her thoughts about unhappiness with her body. Yikes-hard to read except in small spurts. And yet so good-glad to have read it.
You can walk across this art piece at the top of the column.
-by Florence Williams
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative: The scientific studies behind what you likely already knew-it is good to spend some time outside, the more green the better. Actionable info-from a Finnish study you should spend at least 5-10 hrs per month outside, even just walking in a suburban area.
Banana Cream Pie Murder: ugg, trying on some cozy mysteries and picked this up for free. And then it was not worth my time to finish it. The titular recipe uses Jello pudding and cool whip (really? would an actual bakery sell this pie?) and the mystery is further in the background than I like. The love story is super annoying, so I know this series is just not for me!
-by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere: Fantastic! The collision of two families of very different living styles. You get practically everyone's point of view through time.
-by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Ring trilogy: I've been listening to the audio book for the last couple months whenever I have a long drive. It has been at least a decade since I read it and oh it is so good. The songs are not my favorite part, but the story is just so solid. Since I also love the movies it is great to see how the screenwriters used the best lines though sometimes moved around.
Actually a little scary to look down.
-by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere: Fantastic! The collision of two families of very different living styles. You get practically everyone's point of view through time.
-by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Ring trilogy: I've been listening to the audio book for the last couple months whenever I have a long drive. It has been at least a decade since I read it and oh it is so good. The songs are not my favorite part, but the story is just so solid. Since I also love the movies it is great to see how the screenwriters used the best lines though sometimes moved around.
-by Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects: Not for everyone, a bit of a mystery but really about one totally messed up family. Just in time for the tv show, which I will not watch because it would be too gory for me.
-by Roger Lowenstein
Buffet The Making of an American Capitalist: A very old biography, but I wanted to cover all the basics. Only for the super fan.
They have a whole section of Calder's work, which I love.
-by Tim Feriss
The 4 Hour Work Week: Ugg. I hate this guy. If you don't know the 80/20 rule, go check out the Pareto principle in Wikipedia. If you don't know the difference between urgent and important, go read Stephen Covey. Everything else is fluff. I hate that he basically gives people a blueprint to sell crap like nutraceuticals to a vulnerable population, but I am biased on that.
-by Earl Stanley Gardner writing as A. A. Fair
Turn on the Heat: One of the early hard crime novels. Totally outdated so I don't need to read anymore, but glad I checked it out. I think Richard Stark is better.
-by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah: Won a number of awards a couple of years ago. Again I am late to the party but so glad late than never. Love the rich inner lives that we follow-especially the woman, who is very capable and likeable. I didn't love the ending even though you know from the beginning it will end up there. Great view of how integration into a new culture is hard.
Current material highlights how he worked to make these at large scale-includes video of putting one together for the Montreal world fair and this small version of what is outside.
-by Roberto Bolano
2666: Meh. I didn't even finish the sample. I know it is pretty literary and usually I like that. But here the descriptions felt so shallow compared to what I've been recently reading and then it is long on top of that.
-by Thomas Berger
Meeting Evil: Another hard crime story, still not as good as Stark but good enough that I felt tense the whole time. A bit unbelievable but that may also be due to it being a bit old.
Whole group of work titled spiders-this one is creepy as anything.
-by Joshua Hammer
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: I love a good history set in context. The story of how librarians in Timbuktu saved literally thousands of important manuscripts.
-by Daniel Pink
Drive: Excellent book on motivation-people want autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Clear, concise and useful application section at the end.
Whereas I actually like these guys.
-by Kelly McClymer
The Salem Witch Tryouts trilogy: YA about a young witch and issues. Light and fluffy and totally fun. I was totally sucked in by the covers.
-by Tom Hanks
Uncommon Type: Short stories tied together by the theme of typewriters-well written, especially considering this is not even his day job!
-by Kevin Kwan
Crazy Rich Asians then China Rich Girlfriend then Rich People Problems: Late to the book but just in time to see the movie (they are both good, I prefer book first then movie)! Fantastic airplane reads-kept me totally interested even though the plot is a bit nutso and there is a lot of name dropping of fashion stuff that I just have no idea/interest. But having spent some time in Singapore I did appreciate that I sort of knew the places he was talking about.
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