March 18, 2019, Monday afternoon -- Reading bell hooks

At Union Square

He is reading All About Love, by bell hooks. His girlfriend gave him the book for Valentine's Day. They both heard the author, who is a well known feminist and activist, read at San Francisco State University.

His favorite author is Cormac McCarthy, and of Cormac McCarthy's books his favorite is Blood Meridian, which he likes for its graphic illustration and chaos of the Wild West.

March 15, 2019, Friday afternoon -- Reading Carol S. Dweck

At the BART Station

He is walking to work and reading Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck.

March 10, 2019, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Alex Hutchinson

At a cafe in the Mission District

She is reading Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, by Alex Hutchinson. She is a distance runner and while she's down with an injury, she's working on her mental game for endurance running. She ran the 10k and 5k in college.

Other running books she's read are Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery, by Christie Aschwanden, and Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory, by Deena Kastor -- who has the American record in the marathon -- and Michelle Hamilton.

She doesn't have a favorite book or author, but she does really like Haruki Murakami.

March 1, 2019, Friday evening -- Reading Barbara Kingsolver

On the BART platform

He is reading Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver, which he found in one of those Little Free Library houses in Berkeley. He is a teacher and he teaches his students The Bean Trees, which this book is the sequel of, and he had read everything by Barbara Kingsolver except for this book.

His favorite book is Watership Down, by Richard Adams. His favorite living author is Cormac McCarthy and his favorite deceased author is Carlos Casteneda.