{"id":2200,"date":"2022-03-31T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2022-11-05T21:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T21:10:19","slug":"march-2022-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/03\/march-2022-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2022 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>One Second After<\/em> &#8211; William R. Forstchen, 2009. An apocalypse (EMP burst) novel I recently saw recommended. A surprisingly decent read considering the foreshadowing of the author&#8217;s descent into wingnuttery. Aside from the Gary-Stu-ishness of the protagonist (who is a professor at Montreat College &#8211; the setting of the book &#8211; just like the author, imagine that), it&#8217;s depressingly believable.<\/li><li><em>New Kid<\/em> &#8211; Jerry Craft, 2019. A YA graphic novel I heard about on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/758\/talking-while-black\">great TAL episode<\/a> &#8211; first graphic novel to win the Newbery, which makes me feel nostalgic for my librarian days when I would have known about it from t=0. Really good!<\/li><li><em>The Heart&#8217;s Invisible Furies<\/em> &#8211; John Boyne, 2017. Quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><li><em>The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time<\/em> &#8211; Jonathan Weiner, 1994. Quotes pulled, TBD, but WOW, so glad I finally read this!<\/li><li><em>One Year After<\/em> &#8211; William R. Forstchen, 2015. Significantly worse than the first one but I finished it and will read the 3rd&#8230; my want-to-know-what-happens itch got turned on.<\/li><li><em>Mumbai New York Scranton<\/em> &#8211; Tamara Shopsin, 2013. A friend suggested this, partly because I grew up in NY and lived near Scranton (it was a pleasure to see the Electric City sign and the Wegmans references!) Unique and touching, and it gave fascinating insights into the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/tamarashopsin.com\/illustration.html\">illustration<\/a>.<\/li><li><em>The Silver Chair<\/em> &#8211; C. S. Lewis, 1953. Re-read for <a href=\"https:\/\/calmgrove.wordpress.com\/2022\/03\/25\/narniad4\/\">#Narniathon21<\/a>.<\/li><li><em>Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love<\/em> &#8211; Jonathan Van Ness, 2019. Picked up during a bout of insomnia and enjoyed it very much. JVN&#8217;s writing voice captures his Queer Eye persona perfectly.<\/li><li><em>Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals<\/em> &#8211; Oliver Burkeman, 2021. Temporarily convinced me that not only can&#8217;t I do everything, but attempting to is a problem. I picked up a genuine new habit from this book: on my daily list, I now record the number of the week based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/oact\/population\/longevity.html\">SSA life expectancy<\/a> (so today, 5\/6\/2022, I&#8217;m in week 1477 and will switch to 1476 on Monday). The plan so far is to recalculate on my birthday &#8211; every year that number will go back up a bit, since the longer one lives the longer one is likely to live. That&#8217;s all that stuck so far, but I would like to read this again in the future. Really good.<\/li><li><em>Tao Te Ching<\/em> &#8211; Stephen Mitchell, 1961. Re-reading Ursula Le Guin got me interested in Taoism again. I browsed through a bunch of interesting and wild source documents in the Mount Holyoke library which are very different (lots of ritual and theory), and I can see why this text is what resonates in our culture &#8211; it leaves room for so many interpretations. I have Le Guin&#8217;s own translation, but it was in the other room and I had this on my e-reader to pick up during insomnia.<\/li><li><em>Faust, part I<\/em> &#8211; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808. I read the Carl R. Mueller translation from 2004, most of the Randall Jarrell from 1976, and bits of others. Wow, what a meta and overstuffed play &#8211; it seems like it would be impossible to produce. Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Second After &#8211; William R. Forstchen, 2009. An apocalypse (EMP burst) novel I recently saw recommended. A surprisingly decent read considering the foreshadowing of the author&#8217;s descent into wingnuttery. 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