en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:55:40 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7372269241 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:55:40 -0700 /review/show/7372269241 Sourya gave 5 stars to Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5) by Suzanne Collins
]]> Review7618616583 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:28:10 -0700 /review/show/7618616583 Sourya gave 4 stars to Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Curious Mind: Wild and Wacky Things You Never Knew (Interesting and Weird Facts about History, Science, Animals, Food, and More; Trivia Book for Adults and Kids) by MJC Matthew
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]]> Review7499542261 Sun, 25 May 2025 13:47:03 -0700 /review/show/7499542261 Sourya gave 5 stars to A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
]]> Review7499541230 Fri, 16 May 2025 18:42:39 -0700 /review/show/7499541230 Sourya gave 5 stars to The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
]]> Review7516827776 Sat, 10 May 2025 22:03:34 -0700 /review/show/7516827776 Sourya gave 4 stars to Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback) by Damilare Kuku
]]> ReadStatus9406832865 Fri, 09 May 2025 17:57:50 -0700 /review/show/7556604833 Sourya wants to read Every Version of You by Grace Chan
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]]> Review7516806591 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:37:04 -0700 /review/show/7516806591 Sourya gave 3 stars to Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover) by Jeff Speck
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Walkable City makes a lot of great points and I will definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in cities that encourage walking, biking and taking transit over driving. Having moved to the Washington DC area after living in Los Angeles, I definitely feel the advantages and happiness of having a good transit system.

Docking a couple of stars because of 2 reasons. Firstly, the book uses Europe as a point of comparison pretty much always. That feels lazy to me when there is the entire rest of the world with a huge number of fairly dense, walkable cities to choose from. In other words, the book does not feel holistically researched when it mostly talks about how the US can become more like Europe. Secondly, I found the "Update to the 10th Anniversary Edition" portion of the book somewhat of a drag to read because it re-hashed many of the earlier points and I found myself having to skim it to keep my interest.

All in all, this is an important book and I feel more and more people in the US should read this book (at least getting familiar with the various points in the book if not reading it from cover to cover) and understand the benefits of a lifestyle that is different from suburban sprawl. ]]>