A new post at TheSupercargo. I'm reading Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau and Emily St John Mandel's The Glass Hotel in tandem and finding points in common between these two widely different books.

https://thesupercargo.com/to-juneau-via-caiette-reading-diary/

#amreading #amblogging #juneau #theGlassHotel #JonathanRaban #EmilyStJohnMandel

appreciating author #JonathanRaban (1942-2023): 1st book #SoftCity (1974) on fluidity of London/city life, an urbanism classic, & fav; & I love 2008 companion essay "My Own Private Metropolis" on urban diversity's shift from centers to fringes, globally: https://www.ft.com/content/247bc052-64dc-11dd-af61-0000779fd18c
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RT @tmccormick
@warrenslocum urban diversity moving to edge: a global phenomenon, well essayed in "My own private metr…
https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/915240738509643776

Book on a small table in Malpas
Jonathan Raban
Passage to Juneau
#JonathanRaban #travelwriting #books

@mativity
Here are five more:
#ToveJansson The Moomin books, and (loved as an adult) The Sculptor's Daughter
#AAMilne The Pooh books
#IanMBanks or Iain(M)Banks perhaps, let's say The Player of Games and The Crow Road
#JohnleCarre The Spy Who Came in and Tinker Tailor
(Still read Le Carré and Banks - and Le Guin - as comfort food.)
#JonathanRaban Coasting is number 7
There you go! (Though ask me next week and it might be different. 🙂