Travel on Jonathan McKayhttps://jonathanmckay.com/tags/travel/Recent content in Travel on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usFri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000Sea of Tranquilityhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/sea-of-tranquility/Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/sea-of-tranquility/Milquetoast Time Travel Sea of Tranquility reads like an extension of a Chiang short story—minus Chiang’s good-natured acceptance of the inexplicableBefore They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/before-they-are-hanged-the-first-law-%232/Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/before-they-are-hanged-the-first-law-%232/Middle Book Syndrome It doesn't feel like that much happens. Characters grow, but I also want some plot! Glokta starts and ends in the capital city. LogenThis Is How You Lose the Time Warhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/This is not a book, it is a screen saver. Sure, manipulating causality could be clever, but in the end every world visited is intentionally left so vagueBinti (Binti, #1)https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/binti-binti-%231/Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/binti-binti-%231/The only thing that seemed unique to me in the book was the plot twist about 20% of the way through. So short that there's no harm in picking it up, butRiver Town: Two Years on the Yangtzehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/river-town-two-years-on-the-yangtze/Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/river-town-two-years-on-the-yangtze/Not a book about China. This is a book about what it is like to be a foreigner in China, and Hessler nails it. I spent 20 months in Beijing hell-bent onStrange Stones: Dispatches from East and Westhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/strange-stones-dispatches-from-east-and-west/Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/strange-stones-dispatches-from-east-and-west/Refreshing. Picked up this book on a recommendation from Jason ([b:Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China's Version of Twitter|15824230|BlockedThe Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-earth-the-long-earth-%231/Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-earth-the-long-earth-%231/this book = his dark materials + origin of the species + the sum of all fears. although it is less enjoyable than any of those books. I'm not sure why the