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23. Bright Underground Spaces: The Railway Stations of Charles Holden, David Lawrence (hc)
Since it covers both architecture and transport, this was something I expected to be interesting. It was, though it suffers a bit (for me) in that most of the Holden stations are on parts of the Northern, Piccadilly, and Central lines that I've never actually been through so I don't have any mental images to compare them to.
His reworks of Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, though, are ones I am familiar with (and rather pleased by), and I will have to make a trip to 55 Broadway next time I get a chance. (Note for fellow type geeks: Eric Gill, designer of Gill Sans, also produced three of the eight "wind" sculptures on the building.)
I also want to get out to the Moscow Metro-inspired Gants Hill one of these years.
RR36. In Fury Born, David Weber (mmpb)
An expanded (by adding a prequel) version of one of his pre-Honor Harrington books (Path of the Fury). I'm sure nobody will be terribly surprised to hear that the protagonist is a butt-kicking woman. It's the kind of thing you'll like if you like that kind of thing.
RR37. Friday, Robert A. Heinlein (mmpb)
Speaking of butt-kicking women....
I picked this up again based on a half-remembered comment about how the California Confederacy (part of a balkanized North America) was overly besotted with democracy as the sovereign voice of the people. (Oh, and also willing to take rights away from an "invisible" minority who can "pass" as long as they shut up and "act normal". Any similarity to recent events is completely non-coincidental.)
I also found the description of Friday's extended "random reading/research" work to be reminiscent of the way I've been using Wikipanion Plus's queue mode (with auto download turned on) to stock up plenty of quick reading on my iPod touch.
(Hmm... it's been a few months since my original iPod touch as a PDA post; I should revisit that, and cover some of the apps I have loaded. I'll wait and see what Monday's WWDC brings before writing that post, though.)
Since it covers both architecture and transport, this was something I expected to be interesting. It was, though it suffers a bit (for me) in that most of the Holden stations are on parts of the Northern, Piccadilly, and Central lines that I've never actually been through so I don't have any mental images to compare them to.
His reworks of Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, though, are ones I am familiar with (and rather pleased by), and I will have to make a trip to 55 Broadway next time I get a chance. (Note for fellow type geeks: Eric Gill, designer of Gill Sans, also produced three of the eight "wind" sculptures on the building.)
I also want to get out to the Moscow Metro-inspired Gants Hill one of these years.
RR36. In Fury Born, David Weber (mmpb)
An expanded (by adding a prequel) version of one of his pre-Honor Harrington books (Path of the Fury). I'm sure nobody will be terribly surprised to hear that the protagonist is a butt-kicking woman. It's the kind of thing you'll like if you like that kind of thing.
RR37. Friday, Robert A. Heinlein (mmpb)
Speaking of butt-kicking women....
I picked this up again based on a half-remembered comment about how the California Confederacy (part of a balkanized North America) was overly besotted with democracy as the sovereign voice of the people. (Oh, and also willing to take rights away from an "invisible" minority who can "pass" as long as they shut up and "act normal". Any similarity to recent events is completely non-coincidental.)
I also found the description of Friday's extended "random reading/research" work to be reminiscent of the way I've been using Wikipanion Plus's queue mode (with auto download turned on) to stock up plenty of quick reading on my iPod touch.
(Hmm... it's been a few months since my original iPod touch as a PDA post; I should revisit that, and cover some of the apps I have loaded. I'll wait and see what Monday's WWDC brings before writing that post, though.)
