{"id":1114,"date":"2020-04-30T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:10:29","slug":"april-2020-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/04\/april-2020-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2020 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/Galaxy_v19n06_1961-08#page\/n79\/mode\/2up\">The Moon Moth<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Jack Vance, 1961. Just a short story, but such a favorite that I&#8217;m listing it. It successfully combines Vance&#8217;s mystery genre side (he wrote a bunch as John Holbrook Vance as well as some &#8220;Ellery Queen&#8221; novels) with his primary skill at anthropological science fiction, culminating in a delightfully-satisfying twist ending.<\/li><li><em>Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World<\/em> &#8211; Judith D. Schwartz, 2016 &#8211; quotes pulled, tbd<\/li><li><em>Angle of Repose<\/em> &#8211; Wallace Stegner, 1971  &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><li><em>Anna Karenina<\/em> &#8211; Leo Tolstoy (tr. Constance Garnett),  1878 (1901) &#8211;  ditto!  <\/li><li><em>The House that Berry Built<\/em> &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1945. My father, who sparked my love of Yates through this book specifically, died this month, and I picked this up to re-read for the umpteenth time in memory of him&#8230;<\/li><li><em>An Eye for a Tooth<\/em> &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1943. &#8230;and then I was off on a Yates kick, but a restrained one. This time I just went back to a few of the thrillers &#8211; this is one that I acquired late and so didn&#8217;t remember that well. I might only have read it once or twice, imagine that! Not bad but a little past his prime in this genre.<\/li><li><em>Safe Custody<\/em> &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1932. I moved on to the series that deal with one of my favorite McGuffins ever, a set of 127 carved jewels commissioned by Pope Alexander VI. They&#8217;re so well-described that I wish they really existed; I see that they were probably inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/exhibitions\/gems\/collectors.html\">Pope Paul II collection<\/a> of 827 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engraved_gem\">such gems<\/a>. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Moon Moth&#8221; &#8211; Jack Vance, 1961. Just a short story, but such a favorite that I&#8217;m listing it. It successfully combines Vance&#8217;s mystery genre side (he wrote a bunch as John Holbrook Vance as well as some &#8220;Ellery Queen&#8221; novels) with his primary skill at anthropological science fiction, culminating in a delightfully-satisfying twist ending. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","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=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}