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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age | Annalee Newitz

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This is another one I listened to then checked out from the library for pics. Sadly, there aren‘t any photos from Newitz‘s trips around the world to these lost cities, but there are some cool artist‘s renderings at the chapter openings.

Fascinating book though. Title delivers what it promises. Incidentally, I live about 4 hours from Cahokia. It‘s amazing that this lost city is essentially in my backyard and I had no idea. Hope to visit soon.

BC_Dittemore To elaborate: Cahokia is on the St.Louis, MO/Illinois border. I live near Kansas City, which is about a 3 hour drive to St. Louis. Recently the fam was in the area and saw the signs for the Cahokia mounds. We wanted to go, not sure what it was but knowing it was a Native landmark. Alas! We couldn‘t carve out the time. I wish we had. 2d

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staci.reads

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time | Jeff Speck

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I've had this one on my shelf for a long time after hearing about it on the What Should I Read Next podcast and finally got to it when it came up as November's #Bookspin. Really interesting discussion of what makes a city livable, healthy, and desirable. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 1mo

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charl08

Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked | Ivan Vladislavic

Kitchen - crockery - fragile!!! MS: summer clothes. V. manuscripts (Missing Persons). MS: study - stationery. But mainly, the boxes say: IV books - MS books - books.

"Three or four boxes of books, says André, 'is normal. Ten or twelve would be unusual, excessive. But this....it's unreasonable man.
If I'd known we were moving a bladdy *library*...."

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards ? The rep from the moving company who came out to verify my estimate of contents also said, "wow, you have a lot of books." ??‍♀️ English professor, it comes with the territory! And that was after I had weeded out and donated 5 full bags! 4mo

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Pogue

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World | Henry Grabar

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I will never look at parking the same way again. I think the title is a bit wrong, it should be “Explains North America”.

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Morr_Books

New York City: A Short History | George J. Lankevich

I'm going for a long weekend to NYC soon and would like to visit a bookstore. As many times as I have been to NYC, I've only been to the Strand, so I welcome some input. What are your favorite NYC bookstores?

Aims42 I‘ve never been either but I would love to visit Sweet Pickle Books (https://www.instagram.com/sweetpicklebooks?igsh=ajl0MGI3bGk3NHps) 8mo

mrp27 Books of Wonder is a great store if you like childrens books, Shakespeare &Co, Three Lives & Company we‘re some of my favorite bookstores in NYC. 8mo

Leftcoastzen I usually went to 112st one there‘s one on Broadway I haven‘t been in , it wasn‘t open last I visited

Book Culture

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Leftcoastzen https://g.co/kgs/fgRt8nv Argosy Book Store
(212) 753-4455

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slategreyskies @Leftcoastzen I was just going to add Book Culture to the list. For me, it was the 112th one as well, but it‘s been a few years since I was last there. One of the things I liked about it was their bookmarks. They were illustrated with stacks of books on them, the spines facing out, and Book Culture written on them. I‘d take a pic, but those bookmarks are likely stuck in a book somewhere, as I haven‘t seen them in a while. 8mo

Morr_Books Thank you so much @Aims42 @mrp27 @Leftcoastzen @slategreyskies !!!! 8mo

Leftcoastzen @slategreyskies there is a lot to love about that store. They have more scholarly books & well curated sale books. 8mo

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Pogue

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World | Henry Grabar

It was a November afternoon in Queens and Jie Zou was looking for a parking spot.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Sace I just read the description of this book. I may have to read it but I wonder if it will just anger me. 9mo

Pogue @Sace I don‘t know, parking lots anger me as it is. Such a waste of land. My book club picked it. I am very excited for the discussion. 9mo

Sace Just the description angered me! It seems like a great book club pick though! 9mo

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kwmg40

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age | Annalee Newitz

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Newitz looks at 4 ancient cities, Çatalhöyük, Pompeii, Angkor, and Cahokia, and examines the details of everyday life in these urban centres, instead of the major events that other historians tend to focus on.

I finished this book yesterday to wrap up the #FabulousFebruary readathon. Thank you for hosting @Andrew65!

kwmg40 #gottacatchemall @PuddleJumper (prompt 80, Cursola: Transformation)
#52bookclub24 (prompt 46, Featuring Indigenous culture)

@Kristy_K, @LaraReads, @KarenUK, @Hooked_on_books, @BarkingMadRead, @Crazeedi, @brittanyreads, @Magpiegem, @BookBelle84, @Larkken, @jenniferw88, @julesG, @Deblovestoread, @MidnightBookGirl, @Librarybelle, @triplem80, @Tove_Reads, @Read4life, @Bluebird, @BarbaraBB, @eeclayton, @hissingpotatoes, @Book_Lover95, @TheAromaofBooks 11mo

Librarybelle On my to read list! 11mo

Hooked_on_books I found this one fascinating! 11mo

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Kristy_K Sounds interesting! Just added to my tbr. 11mo

Crazeedi This was a great book 11mo

Crazeedi @Librarybelle you will like!! 11mo

kwmg40 @Hooked_on_books @Crazeedi I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds all these details of everyday life hundreds of years ago fascinating! 11mo

kwmg40 @Librarybelle @Kristy_K I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did! 11mo

Crazeedi @kwmg40 have you read this book, it's fascinating, and I think there is another one I haven't read yet

1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus

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kwmg40 @Crazeedi Thanks for the recommendation! I see that my library has copies and I've added it to my wishlist. 11mo

Crazeedi @kwmg40 I think you will like 11mo

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