So Caltrain has been threatening to do 'baby bullet' trains which would go from San Jose to San Francisco in < 1 hour.
that's right: SF to SJ in under 60 minutes.
they'll be running at peak hours (i.e.: rush hour) and making several stops en route from SF to SJ:
Millbrae
Hillsdale
Palo Alto
Mountain View
For proportion for those of you who take Caltrain: from Mountain View to SF, via the faster of the expresses currently, takes exactly an hour, per their schedule. Continuing through to San Jose racks that one up to 1.5 hours, making for 2/3rds the time. 2/3 of 1 hour = 40 minutes.
Not a huge time savings, but good heavens, I may no longer have to cut out of work early to get to an 8 PM dinner engagement!
that's right: SF to SJ in under 60 minutes.
they'll be running at peak hours (i.e.: rush hour) and making several stops en route from SF to SJ:
Millbrae
Hillsdale
Palo Alto
Mountain View
For proportion for those of you who take Caltrain: from Mountain View to SF, via the faster of the expresses currently, takes exactly an hour, per their schedule. Continuing through to San Jose racks that one up to 1.5 hours, making for 2/3rds the time. 2/3 of 1 hour = 40 minutes.
Not a huge time savings, but good heavens, I may no longer have to cut out of work early to get to an 8 PM dinner engagement!
Well, they may not have said fucking.
And lunch with you was discussed in the car last night.
It would REALLY be a nice thing if it did. Some of the Seven Seas events in particular could be easier to get to because then I could use Caltrain and the blessings of the vehicles of others to get out of town every once in a while without renting a car.
But that's just me.
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I'll be checking your journal to see more recommendations in the future.
I live in Mexico and sometimes I get good book references but I can't find the books here, so I buy them at Amazon. But as I mentioned before, sending the books down here it's expensive so I like to make my shopping worth the money.
Thanks again.
Laura.
You're quite welcome!
One book I would alwaysalwaysalwaysalwaysalways recommend, if you like fantasy or horror, are the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies, which Ellen Datlow edits. They invariably give one a TON of suggestions of authors one might enjoy-- and while they're somewhat pricey themselves, they're generally over 500 pages of short fiction and poetry, which gives one a broad portrait of what's available.
If you're fluent, Nathalie Gorodischer might be an interesting read in Spanish (She's Argentinian): I picked up a recent translation into English. I enjoyed it enough that I am dissatisfied that there's only the one book translated. ;)
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Yes, I'm fluent. Spanish is my mother language. :) Although, between you and me, Argentinians have a strange Spanish. Lots of Italian words mixed in. After reading a few books in their Spanish, you almost end up fluent in Italian too. *laughs*
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Since it's solid enough I couldn't sense any foreign grammar to how you put words together, I just felt I should say that your English is very good: far better than my Spanish (which I haven't ever really studied) or my French (which I have). Hopefully the Gorodischer will appeal to you- likely to be cheaper since it's in spanish.
Oh! Arturo Perez-Reverte is another author I've enjoyed hugely in translation, who I've heard is fantastically good in his native tongue (he's from Spain). I'd call him a mystery author.
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They broke their backs working to pay my English lessons. The least I could do was learn. :)
I've heard of Reverte, never read his books.
The first book I read both in English and Spanish was "Little Women", many, many moons ago, and I'm ashamed to say I liked the translation best.
That can happen sometimes. The translator can be that good. Or end up writing his/her own novel out of the translated book. One never knows, unless you have both the original and the translated copy to compare. That's why I try to buy the original version if it's in English or Spanish. In other languages, I stick with what's available.