So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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I'm not sure why I found this book so gripping. It is really just a more or less random collection of facts about cold, and what it does. Especially when it's cold (by Vegas standards) and the wind is blowing through the cracks, "Cold" is hard to put down. There is an underlying theme of global warming, cold isn't all bad.
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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever
alice of vegas, January 1, 2010
I'm not sure why I found this book so gripping. It is really just a more or less random collection of facts about cold, and what it does. Especially when it's cold (by Vegas standards) and the wind is blowing through the cracks, "Cold" is hard to put down. There is an underlying theme of global warming, cold isn't all bad.(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)