Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (4 stars)

Every Seattle resident should read this one. I'm giving it 4 stars because of all the great Seattle tidbits it dropped, if I lived somewhere else, it would be a 3.5.

I had no idea who Cliff was until my wife started talking about him one day shortly after we moved here and referring to him as "my weather guy". I've since read many an excited blog post by Cliff about various storm events. I agree with the sentiment.

We sat in silence. Then, at ten of four, we had to turn the radio back on because Fridays at ten of four is when we listen to our favorite person ever, Cliff Mass. If you don’t know who Cliff Mass is, well, he’s this thing me and Mom have, this awesome weather geek who loves weather so much you have no choice but to love him in return.

Yes. Two opposing grids have not been kind to intersection sanity in this city:

Take five-way intersections. The first time Bernadette commented on the abundance of five-way intersections in Seattle, it seemed perfectly relevant.

Favourite quote:

Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They’re everywhere, and even if they don’t get in your way, you can’t help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.

Very entertaining. I actually quite enjoyed the descriptions of the husband geek-rockstar on the Microsoft connector and the over eager admin.

4 stars.