February 24, 2019, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Michael Schiavo

In the Mission District

He is reading Terri: The Truth, by Michael Schiavo. He doesn't have a favorite author, but instead just reads books when they come his way.

February 3, 2019, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Jeffrey Eugenides

At a cafe in the Mission District

She is reading Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. It was a gift from her sister-in-law, who got everyone books for Christmas. She got lucky that she got a book she wanted to read.

Something good she read recently was Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a book of essays by Joan Didion. She liked it because it was fun to see a portrait of San Francisco.

February 3, 2019, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Tana French

At a cafe in the Mission District

She is just getting started reading The Witch Elm, by Tana French.  It's a murder mystery. She loves this author and is happy to have time to read. It's the first book she's read in a while.

February 3, 2019, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Chris Ying, René Redzepi, Bini Pradhan, Heena Patel, Isabel Caudillo, and others

At a cafe in the Mission District

(The black square on picture of the cover is just to cover up a sticker with library hold information)

She is reading You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another, by Chris Ying and René Redzepi. It's an anthology of essays and part of a series of books put out by the Danish nonprofit MAD, "intended to inspire, educate, and find creative solutions that make a real and sustainable difference in how the world eats" (from the back flap). Right now she's reading an essay about the San Francisco nonprofit, La Cocina entitled Food as a Gateway, by Bini Pradhan, Heena Patel, and Isabel Caudillo.

Another good food series she likes is called Big City Food Biographies, published by Rowman and Littlefield.

And another good book she's read recently was The Library Book, by Susan Orlean, about the fire at Los Angeles's Central Library in 1986.