{"id":1226,"date":"2020-07-31T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:10:55","slug":"july-2020-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/07\/july-2020-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2020 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>White Fragility: Why It&#8217;s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism<\/em> &#8211; Robin DiAngelo, 2018. I read this with an Amherst College group and got more out of the conversations than I did from the book. It is a useful book in many ways but critiques of how DiAngelo ends up centering whiteness aren&#8217;t wrong, plus most of her anecdotes end with &#8220;&#8230;and [person exhibiting racist behavior] left in a huff&#8221; which isn&#8217;t very helpful.<\/li><li><em>A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers<\/em> &#8211; Henry David Thoreau, 1849 &#8211; Quotes marked but lost<\/li><li><em>Let the Great World Spin<\/em> &#8211; Colum McCann, 2009. Quotes lost<\/li><li><em>The Mayor of Casterbridge<\/em> &#8211; Thomas Hardy, 1886. Quotes lost<\/li><li><em>Maia<\/em> &#8211; Richard Adams, 1984. Umpteenth comfort re-read. The mythology of Bekla is thoroughly a part of my inner landscape. This set me off on another Adams kick &#8211; more to come &#8211; and re-awakened an idea of writing an essay about how half his books are my favorites ever that I never get tired of (<em>Watership Down, Maia, The Girl in a Swing<\/em>) and the other half I could barely get through once (<em>Shardik, The Plague Dogs, Traveller<\/em>). <\/li><li><em>Middlemarch<\/em> &#8211; George Eliot, 1871. Re-read; quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><li><em>Flesh of Her Flesh: In Search of Goodness<\/em> &#8211; Slavenka Drakuli\u0107, 2006. Drakuli\u0107 got a kidney from a non-directed\/&#8221;Good Samaritan&#8221; donor and went on a quest to interview such donors. Not a great book but an interesting one &#8211; she&#8217;s from Croatia and theorizes that people in socialist countries are less likely to do altruistic acts for strangers because that&#8217;s the role of the state.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Fragility: Why It&#8217;s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism &#8211; Robin DiAngelo, 2018. I read this with an Amherst College group and got more out of the conversations than I did from the book. It is a useful book in many ways but critiques of how DiAngelo ends up centering whiteness [&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-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}