{"id":2346,"date":"2022-06-30T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2022-11-25T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T15:43:16","slug":"june-2022-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/06\/june-2022-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2022 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis<\/em> (alternate subtitle: <em>The Stubborn Optimist&#8217;s Guide to the Climate Crisis<\/em>) &#8211; Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, 2020. For <a href=\"https:\/\/salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature &amp; Environment<\/a>. I thought I had marked quotes, but apparently not? It was as encouraging as a climate change book can be and still be realistic&#8230; sigh.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Mary&#8217;s Neck<\/em> &#8211; Booth Tarkington, 1932. A Jonathan recommendation I loved discussing with him. It&#8217;s the tale of a Midwestern family who try to join the in-crowd at a summer resort in Maine. Lots of humor that builds over the episodes, with recurring characters whose foibles create suspense as you wonder what social disaster will ensue this time. I probably wouldn&#8217;t read it again but I&#8217;m glad I checked it out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Letter of the Law<\/em> &#8211; Carole Berry, 1987. I love books set in workplaces, and Jonathan recommended this Bonnie Indermill series because she&#8217;s in a different environment each time. This is the first, featuring a law firm. I did finish it but it wasn&#8217;t very satisfactory &#8211; it felt like there was no there there, with not enough humor and a boring mystery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life<\/em> &#8211; Sarah Edmondson, 2019. I picked this up after listening to part of an episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alittlebitculty.com\/\">A Little Bit Culty<\/a> episode. I&#8217;m intrigued by cults in general and had heard a bit about NXIVM but haven&#8217;t watched the documentary (The Vow, HBO). NXIVM seems to be like Scientology in combining features of religion, self-help, and MLM. I did finish it, but it left me puzzled about why the cult was able to attract and keep so many people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/06\/the-dutch-house-ann-patchett-2019\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2418\">The Dutch House<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Ann Patchett, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> &#8211; Victor Hugo, 1862 (tr. Isabel F. Hapgood, 1887). I&#8217;m reading this slowly in French with the Amherst group but finished it fast in translation for Great Books, so will end up with two sets of quotes. In case I don&#8217;t get to this ever, giant plug for the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/readlesmis.libsyn.com\/website\"><em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> Reading Companion<\/a> podcast, which I am enjoying alongside our weekly discussions. I wish there was something similar for more books, but it&#8217;s a tremendous amount of work. Thank you, Briana Lewis, for your labor of love! (I did kick in a donation to help cover the costs because it&#8217;s so great)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Last Battle<\/em> &#8211; C. S. Lewis, 1956. Re-read for <a href=\"https:\/\/calmgrove.wordpress.com\/2022\/06\/24\/last\/\">#Narniathon21<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games<\/em> &#8211; Lizzie Stark, 2012. I enjoyed this, and it would make me want to try LARPing if I had all the time in the world&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","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=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}