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emmadilemma

emmadilemma@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 9 months, 2 weeks ago

mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in warmer times, climate paranoia

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Barry Spitz: Mount Tamalpais Trails (Paperback, 2016, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy) 4 stars

The mountain is eternal, but trails change, and in his new book, Mount Tamalpais Trails, …

The only useful book I have for Mt. Tam

4 stars

This and a prior edition are the only books I've found to cover Mt. Tam properly, with detailed terrain and history discussions as well as clear maps. Printed on heavy, glossy stock, it's a bit heavy to carry on a major trek. But no other book I've found serves me as well.

I threw away most of my travel books from before the pandemic. This 2016 guide is one of the few I kept.

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary (Paperback, 1999, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if …

Childhood turning point

5 stars

The good parts of this have stayed with us, though often having become clichés; the not-so-great parts, well anything looks a bit musty a generation later, doesn't it. This was a 5-star game changer for me; it created the market for (admittedly not always quality) 'chick lit', but turned the stage a bit for female authors, who were thin on the ground at the time because of how the industry was (is…) run.

With very few exceptions I rate books as I would have when they came out, not as I see them now. Two decades ago I was smashing the *** and !!! keys. And so it stays.