Subway Books

Dateline: Heading from W86th Street to Rockefeller Center on the B

One of the many, many things I miss about living in NYC is commuting by subway and having the dedicated reading time each day.  And one of my favorite activities while commuting was noting what books my fellow commuters were reading and if I noticed a lot of people reading the same book (I’d refer to them as subway books in my mind), I’d read them myself (The Help and Water for Elephants are just two examples). Sadly, the ubiquity of e-readers has pretty much put an end to subway books for me (even if I still lived in the City).

Xenagorabibliomania

an obsessive curiosity about the books that strangers read in open places.