{"id":1747,"date":"2021-08-31T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:12:36","slug":"august-2021-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2021\/08\/august-2021-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2021 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Anne of Windy Poplars<\/em> &#8211; Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1936. My Aunt Jean mentioned this was her favorite, and I extra enjoyed re-reading it for that reason.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/em> &#8211; Philip K. Dick, 1968 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBE\\D<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Time Shifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life<\/em> &#8211; Stephan Rechtschaffen, 1997. A little formless and repetitive, but good on &#8220;entraining&#8221; into different time senses. Not enough material for a whole post, just a few extracts:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Analysis of why children constantly ask &#8220;Are we there yet?&#8221; when it contradicts the idea that children live in the present: &#8220;We are the ones who have announced the destination, put it into our head that we are going somewhere. The problem is that they can&#8217;t wait, they expect the destination &#8216;now.&#8217; They are present. It&#8217;s that the destination isn&#8217;t present yet.&#8221; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joke about 90-year-old man going to the doctor: &#8220;What seems to be the problem?&#8221; &#8220;I just want to show off.&#8221; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Good quotes in chapter headings:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jean Giono &#8220;The days are fruits and our role is to eat them.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peace Pilgrim: &#8220;Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Midnight Library<\/em> &#8211; Matt Haig, 2020. Very enjoyable and made me extra-grateful for having so few regrets about paths not taken.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Friend<\/em> &#8211; Sigrid Nunez, 2018. I appreciated that she referenced <em>My Dog Tulip<\/em>, but that&#8217;s a much better book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Sea Around Us<\/em> &#8211; Rachel Carson, 1951 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Woman Warrior<\/em> &#8211; Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Full Tilt: Ireland to India on a Bicycle<\/em> &#8211; Dervla Murphy, 1965 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>My Life in Middlemarch<\/em> &#8211; Rebecca Mead, 2014. I enjoyed reading this quite a bit after a slow read of Middlemarch (April-July, 2020) and before a fast, partial re-read of the beginning for a book group session I led in September. Just pulled one quote about her relationship: &#8220;Lewes adored Eliot&#8230; with an intuitive kindness and a gratitude in which there was no trace of resentment. &#8230; The sense of grateful, joyful indebtedness was mutual.&#8221; This is exactly what I feel about Jonathan. I&#8217;m so lucky!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Road<\/em> &#8211; Cormac McCarthy, 2006. I had started this when it came out but actually never finished it &#8211; strange since I love post-apocalyptic fiction, but I was afraid both of how dark I had heard it was, and how much I&#8217;ve disliked other McCarthy books. But it was great, and the end touched more than any book in quite a while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short pieces<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Re-read of two Hemingway stories I loved as a teen:  &#8220;The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber&#8221; and &#8220;The Snows of Kilimanjaro.&#8221; They don&#8217;t have the same impact now, but I am interested in how specific Hemingway&#8217;s voice is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/go.pl?id=CAWEAT-4&amp;proxyId=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FCAWEAT-4.pdf\">Evidence and Testimony: Philip Henry Gosse and the&nbsp;<em>Omphalos<\/em>&nbsp;Theory<\/a>,&#8221; Peter Caws, 1962. I&#8217;ve been reading my father&#8217;s articles as I digitize them (very slowly) &#8211; this was absolutely fascinating and not at all too scholarly for the general reader. I wish I could write with one-tenth the clarity and economy of my dad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short pieces<\/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-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}