{"id":1094,"date":"2020-02-29T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:17:51","slug":"february-2020-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/02\/february-2020-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2020 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Educated<\/em> &#8211; Tara Westover, 2018. I had no idea quite how harrowing this would be. So interesting that the family <a href=\"https:\/\/butterflyexpressions.org\/welcome\/story\">essential oil empire<\/a>, described near the end, is still going strong.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required<\/em> &#8211; Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung, 2019 &#8211; I&#8217;m sort of a FIRE follower and gobble up books like this. On the quick-read\/fun side &#8211; I don&#8217;t think I learned anything new but I like Kristy&#8217;s attitude.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/02\/the-art-of-frugal-hedonism-a-guide-to-spending-less-while-enjoying-everything-more-annie-raser-rowland-with-adam-grubb-2017\/\">The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Annie Raser-Rowland with Adam Grubb, 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/02\/salt-a-world-history-mark-kurlansky-2002\/\">Salt: A World History<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Mark Kurlansky, 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/02\/beatlebone-kevin-barry-2015\/\">Beatlebone<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Kevin Barry, 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/02\/the-fortunes-and-misfortunes-of-the-famous-moll-flanders-etc-daniel-defoe-1722\/\">Moll Flanders<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Daniel Defoe, 1722<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5152,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}