Brooklyn
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Dispatch from Brooklyn: Metro Reading
A while ago Shelf Talk had some posts on what people are reading on the buses in Seattle. I’m visiting family in New York right now, riding the subway every day, and decided to check out the reading tastes of New Yorkers on the MTA. I had to be careful that the riders wouldn’t think I was… Continue reading
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Brooklyn Stories: Part Two
Do you need something to make you smile? These Brooklyn stories will be sure to succeed. Last Days of Summer is a charming and funny story about a 12-year-old who strikes up a correspondence with a Giants player in the 1940s. He needs a hero to replace the father who has just left the family. The… Continue reading
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Brooklyn Stories: Part One
I wanted to live in Brooklyn ever since I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn when I was a teenager. I felt suffocated by the boredom of small town Wisconsin life and yearned for the big city, where there was a wide diversity of people, cultures, languages; tall buildings, ports, bridges, subways, trains. Brooklyn had… Continue reading