November 2003

Adventures in Nature: Costa Rica by lz in Reading Archive on 29Nov2003

Read this and the Moon handbook edited by Christopher Baker throughout Costa Rica, and ended up relying much more on the Moon, or "Bakes" as we fondly named it. The Adventures book was more of a amateur travel companion, without much of use....

Why Girls Are Weird by lz in Reading Archive on 29Nov2003

I devoured this book on my flight home to SF from ATL. I laughed, I cried, truthfully. The rawness of her father's death stung me; as Anna arrives hours late to the hospital and finds her dad died while she was flying there, she feels a rustling and says her...

The South Beach Diet by lz in Reading Archive on 28Nov2003

It was a little strange finally reading this book a few months after beginning the South Beach Diet. I got most of my information on the web on how to cut bad carbs out of my diet and go through the 3 phases. The wait list at the library finally...

Cold Beer and Crocodiles by lz in Reading Archive on 27Nov2003

An expat journalist takes it upon himself to explore his adopted continent by bicycle. Through dust and wind and storms he trudges, dropping tales of chance meetings along the way. From Sydney, up the Gold Coast to Brisbane, across to Darwin, through the Kimberley to Broome (great beach town), around...