Saturday, May 5, 2012

Seen reading on OC Transpo


  • Lots of dudes reading a variety of material: Your Successful Preschooler: Ten Skills Children Need to Become Confident and Socially Engaged by Ann E. Densmore and Margaret L. Bauman, something by V. C. Andrews, and Méditer au quotidien : Une pratique simple du bouddhisme by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (the last of these three seen on Via Rail)
  • speaking of trips, New York to Dallas by J. D. Robb
  • Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
  • Numerical Methods: Using MATLAB by George Lindfield and John Penny
  • The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
  • something by Henning Mankell
  • Me: the May issue of Quill & Quire and Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (

3 comments:

  1. Hi Alex - I think you need to read the book Seen Reading by Julie Wilson. Julie Wilson's charming book riffs on what she has observed people reading on public transit in Toronto.

    C.M.

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  2. yes, was just reading a review of it! i've been following her blog and twitter for ages!

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  3. Have you ever thought to make bookmarks with books OC transpo commuters read on the 87 and then stick them on the bus?

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