Journal of a Sabbatical

May 4, 2001



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Today's Reading: The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

2001 Book List
Plum Island Bird List



It's still hot out. István declared it as hot as North Africa. Never having been to North Africa I don't know. It feels approximately as hot as the Anza-Borrego desert but far more humid.

It amuses me that many Hungarians say "hello" when they mean goodbye so I've been going around all day saying hello to everybody. It's a long trip home.

I finished reading Budapest 1900 (long) and Urban Transportation (short) and haven't had time to get to a bookstore to get something Budapest-related to read on the flight home. After István dropped me off at the airport I discovered a shop that had a rack of English language paperbacks from Vintage Press so picked up a novel I thought would last for the entire trip: The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama.

Hello to Budapest. For now.

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