Archive for New York
The New Yorker [Dec. 12, 2022]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags anti-abortion organisations, Christmas tree, cover, Matthieu Forichon, Milano, New York, non-viable pregnancy, Protect Abortion, Qatar, rape, Rockefeller Center, Salman Rushd, short story, The New Yorker, TikTok, Università Bocconi on February 9, 2023 by xi'an
leaves & masks [cover]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags cover, dead leaves, face mask, Fall, Fall sweep, New York, NYC, The New Yorker on December 13, 2022 by xi'an
bridge sampling [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Battery Park, bridge, Brooklyn bridge, East River, jatp, Manhattan, mist, morning run, New York, New York city, November on November 18, 2022 by xi'an
bye, sempé…
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Brooklyn, cartoon, cycle path, Jean-Jacques Sempé, New York, sempé, The New Yorker on August 12, 2022 by xi'an
Tierras Centro Americanas [journal of the NYC weekend]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags bagels, breakfast, climate change, Guatemaltec cuisine, Harvest Moon Brewery, Jamaica, JFK, Journal of the Plague Year, korean TV series, New York, New York city, Queen's, Rutgers University, science fiction, The New York Times, The New Yorker, tortilla, Trinity churchyard, young adult books on April 27, 2022 by xi'an
Upon my arrival at JFK, Queens, Andrew took me to have unbelievable tortillas in this Guatemaltec restaurant, soft and yummy, almost like pancakes! Along with great food altogether. We also had a pleasant stroll walking through Queens’ lively Jamaica district. Including coming upon a just extinguished fire in a row of shops! On the opposite, I did not see much of New Brunswick, apart from walking by the Harvest Moon brewery where I got a beer (and a tee-shirt) on my earlier visit there.
Read Truthwitch, another disappointment in the series (of recent books), as the universe building could have been great (despite being heavily inspired from Western Europe geography and culture, and in particular of Venezia. Again, I presume I was missing the YA label when I first picked this book! Scenario is rather terrible, full of last second rescues, new and convenient forms of magical powers, while interactions about characters are artificial and predictable, definitely not recommended. (And there are five books in the series!)
Watched The Silent Sea a short Korean TV serie taking place mostly in a Korean infected base on the Moon. While trying to solve the water crisis on a drying Earth (looking red from the Moon). The ending is quite disappointing while the original idea was most appealing. The science (fiction) behind the story is however terrible. (E.g., never use guns in space! And why would astronauts rely on cheap, handheld, lamplights to explore dark tunnels?! And how can you hide stealthy visits to a Moon basis from Earth?! &tc.)
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