From b696f1911aab41fd73fce6207b9b5677b44d71b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 12:07:13 -0800 Subject: (partial) reading from 2016, 2017 --- books/2017.page | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 books/2017.page (limited to 'books/2017.page') diff --git a/books/2017.page b/books/2017.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7508d7a --- /dev/null +++ b/books/2017.page @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + +Vineland, Thomas Pynchon + +Assembling California, by John McPhee (1993) + + Part of a series on geology of the USA, covering the California section, as + well as some history of plate tectonics in the 20th century. + Good intro to the history and current geography of California on human + timescales as well: the 1989 earthquake, gold mining in the Sierras, Napa + valley wine country, the story of the Davis campus, etc. + The last chapter, about earthquakes in the SF bay area, was as powerful as + the July 2015 New Yorker article ("The Really Big One") about tsunamis in + the Pacific Northwest. + +Not cover to cover: +* Engineering a Safer World -- cgit v1.2.3