Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach has interesting vectors. She knows words for little things like chignon and peignoir.
There are fun words like Wallabout Bay, which is where the navy yard is in Brooklyn. I used to run around it when I did my circle going over the Brooklyn Bridge and then running back on the Williamsburg Bridge. There's a city pool over there that is a nice layover on a hot day.
There is also the nautical stuff. The early diving stuff.
And then NYC during WW2 stuff. The flux of ethnicities described before political correctness.
I've been thinking about reading downhill. Certain books are all downhill and a pure joy. Some books take an investment and then run downhill. Some books are like a mesa, initial investment, smooth flat surface, and then sharp downhill at the end.
How much you bring to the downhill is another question.
A thing I don't like about reading on a tablet is that you don't have the physicality of the book to tell you how much more you have. And no book ends on 100%, there's always varying degrees of fluff at the end, from a chapter in the next novel to essays to just a few pages. You could go to the contents and check it out, but it's not physical. I'm always afraid of losing my place even though I know I could find it.
Egan writes about the character seeing the newsreel of the Missouri being launched, and you can see it online.
In the end, a lovely American tale.
There are fun words like Wallabout Bay, which is where the navy yard is in Brooklyn. I used to run around it when I did my circle going over the Brooklyn Bridge and then running back on the Williamsburg Bridge. There's a city pool over there that is a nice layover on a hot day.
There is also the nautical stuff. The early diving stuff.
And then NYC during WW2 stuff. The flux of ethnicities described before political correctness.
I've been thinking about reading downhill. Certain books are all downhill and a pure joy. Some books take an investment and then run downhill. Some books are like a mesa, initial investment, smooth flat surface, and then sharp downhill at the end.
How much you bring to the downhill is another question.
A thing I don't like about reading on a tablet is that you don't have the physicality of the book to tell you how much more you have. And no book ends on 100%, there's always varying degrees of fluff at the end, from a chapter in the next novel to essays to just a few pages. You could go to the contents and check it out, but it's not physical. I'm always afraid of losing my place even though I know I could find it.
Egan writes about the character seeing the newsreel of the Missouri being launched, and you can see it online.
In the end, a lovely American tale.
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