Booknook Friending Meme

[quillpunk]

Hello, hello! booknook is tossing its hat in the ring for 3weeks4dreamwidth in the form of a friending meme :D

Copy and paste the text from the little box below into a new comment on this post. Feel free to remove the questions that aren't relevant for you! (If you want to fill this out in a post somewhere else, you're welcome do so, simply credit booknook :D)

<b>Name:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Age Group:</b> <b>Dealbreaker(s):</b> <b>I Recently Finished Reading:</b> <b>A Book I Want to Reread:</b> <b>Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List:</b> <b>A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About:</b> <b>Related Book News I've Got My Eye On:</b> (adaptations etc.) <b>My All-Time Favorite Book(s):</b> <b>My Favorite Book Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out:</b> <b>Link to My Latest Book Review:</b> <b>Link to My Reading Log:</b> <b>Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About:</b>

Comments

[moonreviews]

Your books sound interesting (and I've also read a few already)! Why did you pick up The High Cost of Free Parking actually?

[ambyr]

I run an urban planning book club (originally in-person, now on Discord, it's been going for eight years now), and it's a really foundational work for urbanist theory and transportation design. It's twenty years old at this point, and its theories are widely accepted in the field, but at the time it came out it was absolutely upending conventional wisdom, so the author felt he really had to prove his point: by repeating himself, and repeating himself, and repeating himself with case study after case study after cast study and statistical analysis after statistical analysis. Thus: 800 pages, which now that it's become orthodoxy is a bit puzzling. Like, you read it today and go, okay, Shoup, I get your point, you're right and you can stop writing now fifty pages in. But that wasn't the environment he was writing in/for.