{"id":2232,"date":"2022-04-30T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2022-11-05T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T21:09:59","slug":"april-2022-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/04\/april-2022-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2022 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The Dispossessed<\/em> &#8211; Ursula K. LeGuin, 1974. Amherst College slow read group. I was the only one who&#8217;d read it before (multiple times) and it was fascinating to go through with non-SF readers. Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><li><em>\u00c0 l&#8217;ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs<\/em> &#8211; Marcel Proust, 1913. Two friends from the Amherst slow read group and I are tackling all of <em>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em> fifty pages at a time, and we are absolutely loving the experience! Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><li><em>The Final Day<\/em> &#8211; William R. Forstchen, 2017. I should have stopped, but I read through the third in this &#8220;After&#8221; trilogy. This has a bit more plot than the second, with a &#8220;big twist,&#8221; but ehh&#8230;<\/li><li><em>Breakfast With Buddha<\/em>&#8211; Roland Merullo, 2007. This was recommended by a book group friend and I was intrigued, but I didn&#8217;t read any background so it took me a while to settle into what genre it was even trying for. Good Reads reviewers reference Mitch Albom and Robert Pirsig &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot of room between those two and I guess this is in there somewhere. Not successful as a novel IMO, but not bad as a spiritual journey. Some of the images, especially the pinch of dirt clouding a glass of water until time lets it settle, really stuck with me.<\/li><li><em>Never Cry Wolf<\/em> &#8211; Farley Mowat, 1963. Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><li><em>How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind<\/em> &#8211; Pema Ch\u00f6dr\u00f6n, 2008. Pretty good. I&#8217;ve been doing a short practice (using <a href=\"https:\/\/insighttimer.com\/\">Insight Timer<\/a>) for several years now, but I&#8217;m still a beginner and find going back to the basics helpful. Coincidentally I&#8217;d been researching eyes-open meditation, and Ch\u00f6dr\u00f6n recommends it &#8220;because it furthers this idea of wakefulness. We are not meditating in hopes of going further into sleep.&#8221;<\/li><li><em>The Horse and His Boy<\/em> &#8211; C. S. Lewis, 1954. Re-read for <a href=\"https:\/\/calmgrove.wordpress.com\/2022\/04\/29\/narniathon21-3\/\">#Narniathon21<\/a>. <\/li><li><em>Wed Wabbit<\/em> &#8211; Lissa Evans, 2017. I saw a more recent Evans recommended &#8211; maybe on a Twitter thread on &#8220;the book you&#8217;d most like to read again for the first time&#8221;? &#8211; and checked this one out because it was in the library holdings. Middle grade humorous fantasy &#8211; not as funny as promised on the jacket copy, but well-done and a pleasant read.<\/li><li><em>The Metamorphoses<\/em> &#8211; Ovid, 8 AD (tr. Allan Mandelbaum, 1993) &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dispossessed &#8211; Ursula K. LeGuin, 1974. Amherst College slow read group. I was the only one who&#8217;d read it before (multiple times) and it was fascinating to go through with non-SF readers. Quotes pulled, TBD. \u00c0 l&#8217;ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs &#8211; Marcel Proust, 1913. Two friends from the Amherst slow read group [&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-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","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=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}