1 comments about Night+Day New York (Pulse Guides Cool Cities Series).

1. My girlfriend and I recently picked this up to help with our trip to New York and I have to say it was fantastic. Not your typical guide of typical outdated touristy things to do. It was extremely well written, obviously a lot of care and research was done to put it together. It uncovered some hidden gems and seemed to be really on the cutting edge with what was hip and happening in the city.
   
   I'd totally pick it up if you're looking for some good insight into what New York can really be like. We're also going to look at picking up some other in this series for some other trips that we have planned.

2 comments about Miffy Loves New York City.

1. I purchased a bunch of these books after moving to NYC for all my friends with kids and one for myself. They have been received with great enthusiasm. I find it very fun to have Miffy explore the city I love so much. A great memory if kids visited NYC themselves or a great preparation for what they will see after arrival. Lots of fun. It is not the original Miffy size though, which is too bad. ALso Miffy seems to be cut out of the other story books and pasted in NYC scenery. Not the best Miffy read ever, but certainly very charming and unique.



2. Obviously Miffy represents a beloved fictional white bunny character that we all adore. What's cool about this book is your sitting down and pointing out famous NY landmarks, I know Miffy superimposed sounds really cheesy and frankly it is, but that's the point of the book! It's a chance to connect her on a photographic trip around the city. We love the book and anyone wishing to visit New York with a young Miffy fan would like this too. They even supplied space at the back of the book for adding your own photographs. It's a cute idea/concept and a useful kid-friendly mini-travel guide.

No comments about Secret New York: The Unique Guidebook to New York's Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes (Secret Guide series).

No comments about A Day In New York.

No comments about New York City Icons: 50 Classic Slices of the Big Apple.

5 comments about The Book of Trouble: A Romance.

1. This is a wonderful, wide ranging, engaging memoir. It's all here - cousin marriage, intergenerational sex, cultural differences (and not the tedious starch you get served up in so much travel writing), criticisms of American society, a strong heart and powerful searching intelligence. "The Book of Trouble" is at the outset a love story. West Village writer meets significantly younger man from Afghanistan. Is he acceptable as a lover? No. Does she even consider him? No. Do they get together? Yes, briefly, savagely, and then sadly: it's all over.
   Ann Marlowe is an acutely observant viewer of herself, and those around her: what they say, and what they think. She understands that what love is based on is a kind of tribalism, that you fall for people who reflect or refract the milieu you were raised in. The distance between herself, an American Jew, and Amir, an Afghan Muslim is, as she notes, much less than might be first imagined. Pursuing Amir, Marlowe is also pursuing Afghanistan, and the Middle East, and that chewy topic: America. What do Muslims have that the contemporary US has lost? Can it be retrieved? How? The love affair with Amir is always gently nudged back to politics and place.
   Picky giddy people should beware. This is probably not a book to read if you think that someone like Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi cannot be a rogue, and also charming. It's not for you if you imagine it's witty to cast aspersions on the author just because whipping-boy-du-jour James Frey has praised it. It's not for you if you like ideas and events neatly dissected and served on a plate like so much mental sashimi: appetising at the outset, but then an hour later you're hungry again. Yes, "The Book of Trouble" has troubling themes, but their treatment is invigorating and satisfying.



2. An intimate intellectual travelogue about sex and culture at unusual personal depth, Ann Marlowe's The Book Of Trouble read itself quickly. I was saving it for an impending vacation because it seemed a clever choice for traveling with a lover, but I started sampling and wound up consuming the whole thing before I packed.
   
   Training her Harvard-honed overachieving mind on a tasty range of sexual, sociological, and cultural targets, Marlowe manages to turn her pursuit of a younger Afghan man into an exploration of her family's troubled history, womanhood in Muslim society, and the various ways contemporary Americans attempt to control (and effectively suppress) romance and lust.
   
   Marlowe can annoy at times with steely strictures, but that's part of her disarming charm as a writer. Most of the judgments here are about her. Even when she tearfully mulls the wisdom and phrasing of chasing a lost lover, she rarely whines. She struck me as looking for truth in her experiences, as if peeling an onion that she fears her heart has become after decades of hip romancing.
   
   The book is a grand tide of digression, but its structure reliably supports her queries as she falls in love and follows Old Glory to Mazar-i-Sherif, Kabul, and Baghdad, all the while yearning for a perfect intimacy that she fears she wasn't born to have. In asking why this is and whether it must continue to be, she entertains the mind that overlooks the heart and she provokes readers to contemplate their own solitude in this busy "sexy" world.



3. Very deep enlightening and well written. I was so struck by this wonderful love, or non love story, that I read it in one sitting ! Ann writes with passion nothing is held back, buy it today !!



4. I liked this book very much and have recommended it to friends. I'm sure I disagree with Marlowe's politics--especially regarding the war in Iraq--as much as anybody else, but that didn't dim my appreciation for her work nor make any of her ideas suspect. She brings her intelligence and the perspective that comes from having led an interesting life to her interesting range of topics; that's a combination that wins my attention and admiration every time. I also found this a very brave work, in that the most tender areas that she probes are located on her own heart.



5. WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT ANN MARLOW'S EXPLORATIONS INTO HER AFFAIR OF NINE MONTHS WITH A GUY CALLED AMIR-DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS, TRY IT FOR YOURSELF AND FIND OUT. BORING IN THE EXTREME-TALK ABOUT PUTTING YOUR TO SLEEP. IF SHE IS A WRITER, SO I AM. IT IS SO VAGUE,SKIPPING FROM POINT TO ANOTHER--CONFUSING. DID NOT LIKE IT-WAS NOT WORTH MY TIME TO READ. DH

1 comments about Guide to Adirondack Trails: Eastern Region (The Forest Preserve, Vol. 6) (The Forest Preserve Series, Vol 6).

1. For its trail guides, the Adirondack Mountain Club divides the enormous New York preserve into several sections, and publishes a precise list of the trails available in each one.
   
   This book, like those for all the other regions, comes with a large, detailed fold out map of the area, and describes all the trails available within it. The book not only helps hikers locate and identify landmarks and trail markers, but also rates each trail in accordance with its difficulty, to avoid the obvious dangers implicit in directing weak hikers to hard walks.
   
   We've found lots of walks in this wonderful book over the years, and recommend it highly.

1 comments about Hagstrom Nassau County, New York Street Atlas.

1. This is a very comprehensive street guide to Nassau County. It is easy to find where you are going by using it. This Atlas sure beats fighting with fold up maps and struggling to read these maps with their tiny print, even when using a magnifier and wearing reading glasses. If you do a lot of traveling in Nassau, perhaps you should consider owning one of these guides. The guides from Hagstrom for the five boroughs of New York and Suffolk county are of equally fine quality. I would be lost without these guides! :-)

No comments about When the cathedrals were white (McGraw-Hill paperbacks).

2 comments about ABC in NYC (All 'Bout Cities).

1. kids who live in nyc (or any big city) don't see too many "cows" to go with their learning of the letter "c." similarly, kids who live in the country or the suburbs don't know much about newsstands or hot dog vendors. this book has really unique, authentic new york city photos for each letter of the alphabet. it's a great way to expand the typical alphabet book genre. i've bought it for three of my friends with young children and they all love it.



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