I'm reading this at the moment - Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne.
It's a book about world cities, urban planning, architecture, globalisation, politics, history, music and art and much else besides. What (loosely) links it all together is city cycling, so we share what the author is seeing and thinking as he pedals around Berlin, London, Sydney, Istanbul, New York, San Francisco and many other great cities.
I'm currently about halfway through (in Buenos Aires, since you ask). So far I'm enjoying the journey and I'll be sad when it's over.
-R
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Thats a good one, may need to put it in the to re-read heap now.I'm reading this at the moment - Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne.
It's a book about world cities, urban planning, architecture, globalisation, politics, history, music and art and much else besides. What (loosely) links it all together is city cycling, so we share what the author is seeing and thinking as he pedals around Berlin, London, Sydney, Istanbul, New York, San Francisco and many other great cities.
I'm currently about halfway through (in Buenos Aires, since you ask). So far I'm enjoying the journey and I'll be sad when it's over.
-R
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Bravo on that accomplishment. I believe it's three times for me with The Silmarillion, if you'll let me count the audiobook, about 3 years ago. I need to read it again soon. I do love it.Finally finished "The Silmarillion", for the third or fourth time. It's a complex book. Tolkien started it before he started "The Lord of the Rings", and did not finish it until after he had finished same, shortly before his death.
My hat's off to his son, Christopher, for putting all his father's papers in order and publishing them in about 12 volumes. I have them all.
Heart problems (more surgery) and multiple complexities of life held that up for almost a year ...
I usually read before going to sleep, so taking the mandatory 3x BP measurements, 3 minutes apart, after lying still for 5-10 minutes before taking the first tends to bugger up reading time!