Cool Gray City of love: 49 Views of San Francisco

This book should be required reading for anyone who lives in San Francisco. Gary Kamiya writes lovingly about the “Cool Gray City of Love” in a way that makes it feel both familiar and mysterious. After finishing each chapter, you'll be dying to put the book down and go explore a part of the city you've never been to, or look with fresh eyes at a neighborhood you thought you knew. Kamiya joins San Francisco's past and present, weaving together hilarious historical anecdotes with lush, descriptive writing of his travels through the city in his many decades living here. As a wanderer myself, my favorite line in the book was about the unique San Francisco climate: “Cool and fresh, constantly cleansed by the sea, it is walking weather, thinking weather, alert weather.” See the city through Kamiya's eyes and you'll walk around with a new understanding and appreciation for this incredible place.