There aren't many travel books that focus specifically on L.A., and even fewer that offer anything at all for the traveller on foot. This one isn't bad and isn't expensive, though it does date from 2018 and hasn't been updated since Covid.
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emmadilemma rated Wildsam Field Guides : San Francisco: 3 stars
emmadilemma reviewed Insight Guides Explore Los Angeles (Insight Explore Guides)
emmadilemma reviewed Mount Tamalpais Trails by Barry Spitz
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.
emmadilemma rated Make Good Art: 4 stars
emmadilemma rated 50 Years of Happiness: 3 stars
emmadilemma rated Art Nouveau in Catalonia (Evergreen Ser.): 2 stars
emmadilemma rated The Yiddish Policemen's Union: 3 stars
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake …
emmadilemma rated The Szyk Haggadah: 4 stars
emmadilemma rated In Other Lands: 3 stars
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy …
emmadilemma reviewed Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones)
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.
emmadilemma rated The Coldest Girl in Coldtown: 3 stars
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, …
emmadilemma rated 101 stories of the great ballets: 3 stars
emmadilemma rated These Truths: 3 stars
These Truths by Jill Lepore
"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the …