(no subject)
Mar. 22nd, 2011 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm back home! I should make and eat dinner, study Japanese, write up my last two weeks in Livejournal, read several books I borrowed and need to return, and get my info together for continuation of health insurance! I can do that in the three hours or so before I go to bed...right?
I...um...was forced into a Borders, was marched around the stacks, and made to amass a pile of books in my paws again today. Last time I went the discount was only up to 30%. This time it was 50%! Combining my last foray with this one, I have added the following to my library.
The City in History by Lewis Mumford
Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. This is often called 'the bible of New Urbanism'.
Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. I often describe this book as possibly the most important one I have ever begun to read. I'm happy to finally have my own copy. (Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infintysquared for introducing me to it.)
In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim. I heard the author talking about this on NPR and look forward to reading a book that meshes very well with my interests in the nature of community.
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America by Geoffrey Canada.
Tunnel People by Teun Voeten, a war photographer and cultural anthropologist who spent some time with a community of homeless living underground in New York City.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig. I've wanted to read this for a while.
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt. Oddly enough, I was just talking to Danae about some theory I've read about how to break up traffic jams and other quirks of traffic flow. The essay I found begins here (and is very interesting reading and includes visual aids!). I'm not sure if that same aspect of traffic will be addressed in this book, but I think it will be a lot of fun to read anyway.
Beyond that, I found an Azumanga Daioh omnibus with three years worth of the manga, volume four of Inubaka, and two volumes of Oh My Goddess.
Yay books!
(Oh, and I bought a set of kanji flash cards too.)
And now I should try doing something productive. Dinner is done; I can has fish fillets.
Tomorrow I'm having dinner withposicat. Thursday I'm going to visit cranberrynomiko and work on Japaense, then go to my class. Friday I'm hoping to get a copy of my birth certificate in Waukegan, then going up to Kenosha to visit family. I have to meet up with moiracoon Saturday morning to get her a check. Sunday I'm driving down to Oak Park to meet danaeris for a Frank Lloyd Wright tour. Wow.
I...um...was forced into a Borders, was marched around the stacks, and made to amass a pile of books in my paws again today. Last time I went the discount was only up to 30%. This time it was 50%! Combining my last foray with this one, I have added the following to my library.
The City in History by Lewis Mumford
Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. This is often called 'the bible of New Urbanism'.
Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. I often describe this book as possibly the most important one I have ever begun to read. I'm happy to finally have my own copy. (Thanks to
infintysquared for introducing me to it.)In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim. I heard the author talking about this on NPR and look forward to reading a book that meshes very well with my interests in the nature of community.
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America by Geoffrey Canada.
Tunnel People by Teun Voeten, a war photographer and cultural anthropologist who spent some time with a community of homeless living underground in New York City.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig. I've wanted to read this for a while.
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt. Oddly enough, I was just talking to Danae about some theory I've read about how to break up traffic jams and other quirks of traffic flow. The essay I found begins here (and is very interesting reading and includes visual aids!). I'm not sure if that same aspect of traffic will be addressed in this book, but I think it will be a lot of fun to read anyway.
Beyond that, I found an Azumanga Daioh omnibus with three years worth of the manga, volume four of Inubaka, and two volumes of Oh My Goddess.
Yay books!
(Oh, and I bought a set of kanji flash cards too.)
And now I should try doing something productive. Dinner is done; I can has fish fillets.
Tomorrow I'm having dinner with
posicat. Thursday I'm going to visit cranberrynomiko and work on Japaense, then go to my class. Friday I'm hoping to get a copy of my birth certificate in Waukegan, then going up to Kenosha to visit family. I have to meet up with moiracoon Saturday morning to get her a check. Sunday I'm driving down to Oak Park to meet danaeris for a Frank Lloyd Wright tour. Wow.
