Showing posts with label Subway Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Subway Books. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway....

By PaulyNew York City

Back by popular demand! I've been riding the subways this week and here's what I saw...
Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
2. The Holy Bible
3. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
4. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
5. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan

Friday, January 02, 2009

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway....

By PaulyNew York City

The first installment of the year...
Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
2. The Holy Bible
3. The Stylist by Cai Emmons
4. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
5. Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway....

By Pauly
New York City

And yes, I rode the subways a couple of times. The last time? A young woman sat down and opened up the Bible.
Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. The Holy Bible
2. Momma's Boy by Bubba Bala
3. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
5. Affinity by Sarah Waters

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway....

By Pauly
New York City

And yep, been riding the subways a lot over the last week.
Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
2. The Holy Bible
3. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. 26a by Diane Evans
5. The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine

Monday, October 13, 2008

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway....

By PaulyNew York City

And we're back with...
Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway....
1. The Holy Bible
2. Chronicles by Bob Dylan
3. The Dolphin's Tooth by Bruce Kirkby
4. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
5. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

By PaulyNew York City

Been riding the subways a lot the last few days...

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
2. The Holy Bible
3. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
4. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
5. Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Monday, April 07, 2008

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

By Pauly
New York City

I rode the subways a lot this weekend and noticed a couple of books...

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. Paradise Lost by John Milton
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
3. The Holy Bible
4. The 5th Horseman by James Patterson
5. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

By PaulyNew York City

It has been a while since I posted the latest installment. Here you go.

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
3. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
5. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Monday, March 03, 2008

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

By PaulyNew York City

Back riding the subways again. Here's what I saw people reading...

1. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
2. The Holy Bible
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
5. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Friday, December 28, 2007

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

By Pauly
New York City

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
3. Cross by James Patterson
4. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
5. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

1. Franny and Zoey by J.D. Salinger
2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
3. The Holy Bible
4. State of Fear by Michael Crichton
5. Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner

Friday, November 16, 2007

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway and in Airports...

By Pauly
New York City

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
2. The Holy Bible
3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
4. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
5. Playing for Pizza by John Grisham


Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on Airplanes...
1. World Without End by Ken Follett
2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
4. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
5. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Last 5 Books I Read...
1. The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton
2. The Biggest Game in Town by Al Alvarez
3. The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
4. Miles by Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe
5. Death to All Cheerleaders by Marty Beckerman

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway....

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Holy Bible
4. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
5. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us by Robyn Meredith

Saturday, May 19, 2007

5 Lists of 5: Google, Blogs, Subway Books, Writing Music, and Airports

It's been a while since I did 5 Lists of 5. So here we go...

Last 5 Hilarious Google Referrals...
1. Rachel Ray cumshot video
2. Milfs in Idaho to hang with
3. Woman fucks horse and her husband videotapes it
4. Greg Kinnear kick drugs crystal meth and coke
5. Kangaroo giving himself a blowjob

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
2. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
3. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
4. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
5. The Holy Bible

Last 5 Airports I've Checked E-mail in...
1. JFK
2. Long Beach
3. Schipol (Amsterdam)
4. Cote D'azur (Nice)
5. Barajas Airport (Madrid)

Recent Writing Music...
1. Rodrigo y Gabriela
2. New Monsoon
3. Widespread Panic
4. Sonny Rollins
5. James Brown

Last 5 Blogs that I Read...
1. Wil
2. The Fat Guy
3. StB's While Drinking
4. Jonny Vincent
5. Deadspin

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
3. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
4. The 5th Horseman by James Patterson
5. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
 1. The Accidental Virgin by Valerie Frankel
2. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
3. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
5. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on Airplanes...
1. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
2. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
3. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
5. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

1. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
2. Limitations by Scott Turow
3. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
4. Next by Michael Crichton
5. Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on Airplanes...
1. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. Freakanomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...
1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. The Holy Bible
3. Chronicles, Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
5. Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

Friday, November 17, 2006

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

1. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
3. The Magus by John Fowles
4. The Collectors by David Baldacci
5. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway...

1. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Holy Bible
3. Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
4. Pursuit of Happiness by David G. Myers
5. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron