{"id":1879,"date":"2021-10-31T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:12:56","slug":"october-2021-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2021\/10\/october-2021-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2021 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The Rescuers<\/em> &#8211; Margery Sharp, 1959.  I loved these books as a child but only the Garth Williams illustrations really hold up, so I actually let this copy go! Yay one fewer book (they flood back in so quickly&#8230;).<\/li><li><em>Five Bushel Farm<\/em> &#8211; Elizabeth Coatsworth, 1939. A new-to-me children&#8217;s book (<em>The Cat Who Went to Heaven<\/em> I&#8217;ve loved and re-read many times, and I&#8217;ve read <em>The Enchanted<\/em> at least once, but that might be it) which is good-not-great. It also has what would have seemed to most (white) readers at the time like a &#8220;sympathetic&#8221; portrayal of Native Americans, but is actually classic erasure. Another to purge!<\/li><li><em>Hot Milk<\/em> &#8211; Deborah Levy, 2015 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><li><em>The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt&#8217;s New World<\/em> &#8211; Andrea Wulf, 2015 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><li><em>The Lathe of Heaven<\/em> &#8211; Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971. No matter how many times I read it, it still strikes me as a perfectly done novel.<\/li><li><em>The School for Scandal<\/em> &#8211; Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1777. For Irish Writers, but not enough quotes for a full post. I enjoyed reading it but would like to see it performed even more. <ul><li>&#8220;Wit loses its respect with me, when I see it in company with malice.&#8221;<\/li><li>Lady Teazle: &#8220;I&#8217;ll swear her color is natural&#8212;I have seen it come and go&#8212;&#8221; Crabtree: &#8220;I dare swear you have, ma&#8217;am; it goes of a Night, and comes again in the morning.&#8221;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_avadavat\">avadavat<\/a>: a small songbird imported from India<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> &#8211; Fyodor Dostoevksy, 1879 (David McDuff translation, 2003). Second read this year &#8211; this translation is much better. Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><li><em>How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America<\/em> &#8211; Clint Smith, 2021 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><li><em>Tender is the Night<\/em> &#8211; F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934. Read by mistake for Great Books instead of <em>This Side of Paradise<\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;ve worried about doing that before but this is the first time it happened. I actually embarked on several minutes of discussion before we all realized we were talking about two different books! Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><li><em>Rebecca<\/em> &#8211; Daphne Du Maurier, 1938. I think this is a re-read but not positive, since I&#8217;ve seen the movie several times and now want to re-watch it. One of the reasons I picked it up again was to compare Rebecca to the similar character Rowena in the next book on the list:<\/li><li><em>This Publican<\/em> &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1938 (re-read) I was wondering which of the two influenced the other if at all, so it&#8217;s fascinating they came out the same year. <em>Rebecca<\/em> is better-written, of course, but <em>This Publican<\/em> builds equally gripping psychological suspense without recourse to shipwrecks and corpses and what-have-you. Especially intriguing that there&#8217;s a Thackeray novel titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1061562.Rebecca_and_Rowena\">Rebecca and Rowena<\/a><\/em> &#8211; but aha, they are the two women in <em>Ivanhoe<\/em> (which I&#8217;ve read but isn&#8217;t top of mind, and neither of them was evil to the bone&#8230;).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rescuers &#8211; Margery Sharp, 1959. I loved these books as a child but only the Garth Williams illustrations really hold up, so I actually let this copy go! Yay one fewer book (they flood back in so quickly&#8230;). Five Bushel Farm &#8211; Elizabeth Coatsworth, 1939. A new-to-me children&#8217;s book (The Cat Who Went to [&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-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","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=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}