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It had been foggy all summer in San Francisco, and on September 19, l939; the sun broke through just as the sac of water burst from the body of my mother. Shortly thereafter, Sunshine Joy Epstein came into this world.
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On a certain foggy morning in September, 1905, a tall man wearing a black overcoat and bearing in one hand a small satchel of dark- reddish leather descended from a Geary Street tram at the foot of Market Street, San Francisco. It was a damp morning; a mist was brooding over the city blurring all distinctness.
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In the spring of 1868, less than a month before his 30th birthday, a wild-haired itinerant college-dropout by the name of John Muir, “with incredibly little money,” and no guidebook, stepped off a Panama steamer at the Port of San Francisco. [Excerpted from Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada: Great Destinations (1e) © by David T. Page. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, The Countryman Press /W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. To order, visit Countrymanpress.com]
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San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more
disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its
violent moments.
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jmma678 (BookGlutton Member) from
Anywhere, United States
I like to visit an area and then read about it like San Francisco and then reading, A Small Crack in the Edge of the World or visting Los Almos, NM then reading the Children of Los Almos. Love the murder mysteries and stories to make you think.
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tdawg (Travis Alber) from
Illinois, United States
Fiction, short and long. At least that's the long and short of it.
Last book read: MARY AT THE FARM AND BOOK OF RECIPES COMPILED DURING HER VISIT AMONG THE "PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS"
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Borges David Foster Wallace Denis Johnson Eastern Europe J G Ballard Philip K Dick Richard Powers Sam Spade San Francisco Sherlock Holmes Steven Johnson delillo dot com future mystery science fiction short fiction space travel time
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Big Dog (Mr. Big Dog, SR.) from
Almost Nearly NYC, United States
ROWF!
Last book read: MARY AT THE FARM AND BOOK OF RECIPES COMPILED DURING HER VISIT AMONG THE "PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS"
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San Francisco alaska badass bark call of the wild dog howl jack london krakow london monster dog pet science fiction short story afficionado snuggle woof
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