Read a bunch of stuff pre-2020 and almost nothing since. Sad, that.
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Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, …
As another reviewer said, I wish I'd read this when I was much younger. So I will give it to my 13 y/o nephew …
Burn Boston Burn
Admittedly, I'm biased. I've been a buff (spark in Boston-ese) for a long long time ... and I moved to the Boston area in the summer of '85, not long after the trial of one of the main co-conspirators had happened.
So I liked the book a lot. Mr Miller did an excellent job and we're fortunate that one of the co-conspirators kept copious and detailed notes. Pro-tip: If you are a serial arsonist, don't keep a journal.
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly …
OK. Some of the chapters were good others not as much. Yes, I’m mad about his use of “KHz” in place of “kHz”.
If you 1) grew up in Montreal in the 1960s or 1970s and 2) listened to the radio you need to read this book. Yep, totally a trip down memory lane, but Mr Howarth (he taught at my HS so ... "Mr" Howarth) did an incredible amount of research on all the players, big and small, of those days. And because it's Rock'n'Radio he covers some of the music makers and music promoters that had a symbiotic relationship with radio back then.
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge …
Omg. Very clever but also a great mystery.
A history of Pointe Claire
Very good. Pacing was, maybe, a little off. Seemed to spend a lot of time in the 18thC, which was fine by me, and then sort of sped through the 19thC and then by the time we hit post-war, it was more of a cataloging of events. Maybe that's just how history is (I Am Not A Historian).
The coverage of the big Lakeside Air Show of 1910 (first ever in Canada) make me want to know more about that event.
Good coverage of the early settlement of the parish. Pity the present day city (and adjoining municipalities) don't seem to be doing anything to commemorate the tricentennial of the laying out of the three main côte roads that cross Pointe Claire, etc. The first farms were conceded in 1718.