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Christopher Brown: Natural History of Empty Lots (2024, Timber Press, Incorporated)

During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot …

Ehhh?

It's...hrmm

I don't know

I think this is a book for drivers. I mean people who never walk places, never have stared out a bus window, who are used to going from home to business or park without any other experience of the outside world.

I think if you're that kind of person this might be really really good in terms of opening your eyes to a lot of things

But, but, this book felt weirdly unedited too because there were so many parts that, like I said earlier, made me go "didn't I already read this part??" and no it's just that he repeats himself A Lot

and the book itself feels very meandering like it was a series of blog posts not really meant to be read as a book but rather just a bunch of loosely themed diary-in-retrospect entries