May 22, 2016, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Robert T. Kiyosaki

On the BART platform

He is reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki. It was recommended by his uncle.
Right now he's studying pharmacy - he wants to make enough money so he doesn't have to think about money. He is also working as a model. His favorite book is American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis.

May 11, 2016, Wednesday evening -- Reading Christopher Cook

In Dolores Park

He is reading Diet for a Dead Planet, by the San Francisco author, Christopher Cook.
The book is good, he said, but we're doomed. His favorite book is Dune, by Frank Herbert. He's read it a few times.

May 5, 2016, Thursday morning -- Reading Philip Yenawine

In the Mission District

He is reading How to Look at Modern Art, by Philip Yenawine. He said he's giving it the first hundred pages. So far it's good. He found it on the street and will probably leave it on BART.

One of his favorite authors is Douglas Adams, who he discovered when he was about 12, but that's not what got him into reading in the first place. He really liked the Choose Your Own Adventure books when he was younger.

April 30, 2016, Saturday night -- Reading Michael Herr

Walking down Mission Street

He is reading Dispatches, by Michael Herr. It's about the author's experiences being a corespondent in Vietnam during the war. He picked up Dispatches because he was in the middle of Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace and needed a break, and it was recommended by Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic at the New York Times, who he follows on Twitter.

Something else good he's read recently is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert. If he had to pick a favorite book, it would be The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.