{"id":2381,"date":"2022-07-31T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2022-11-25T15:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T15:24:54","slug":"july-2022-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/07\/july-2022-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2022 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of his Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts<\/em> &#8211; Hugh Lofting, 1920. The Doctor Dolittle books were a huge influence on me as a kid &#8211; they&#8217;re about love of animals, passion for learning, pacifism, anti-materialism, egalitarianism, and rejection of convention. I read and re-read many of them, especially <em>Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake<\/em> and <em>The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle<\/em>. I own all of them except this one (I had the abridged picture book edition which doesn&#8217;t count), and Jonathan brought it home from the League of Women Voters book sale! And&#8230; it&#8217;s nowhere near as good as the subsequent ones, plus super-racist\/colonialist. But it&#8217;s got the origin story of a bunch of the household animals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen<\/em> &#8211; Mary Norris, 2015. Who the heck is the audience for this book?!? I mostly enjoyed it despite Norris&#8217; unsuccessful attempts to simultaneously appeal to grammar newbies, <em>New Yorker<\/em> nerds (right there the Venn diagram shrinks to nothingness), and memoir lovers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Improvement<\/em> &#8211; Joan Silber, 2017.  For Second Monday but I didn&#8217;t pull any quotes, which means it left little impression. Not bad, but not at all memorable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/07\/arctic-dreams-imagination-and-desire-in-a-northern-landscape-barry-lopez-1986\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2425\">Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Barry Lopez, 1986.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2022\/07\/a-tale-of-two-cities-charles-dickens-1859\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2517\">A Tale of Two Cities<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Charles Dickens, 1859.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>When I Grow Up<\/em> &#8211; Julianna Hatfield, 2008. I love Julianna&#8217;s music (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barsuk.com\/artists\/minoralps\">Minor Alps<\/a>, a collaboration with my brother, is brilliant and never got the recognition it should have IMO&#8230;) and this was candid and compelling, but a depressing and harrowing read. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Sculptor<\/em> &#8211; Scott McCloud, 2015. I was blown away by <em>Understanding Comics<\/em> when it came out, and have admired McCloud ever since. This was both more accessible and more enthralling than I expected. The end made me cry. Graphic novels aren&#8217;t may favorite genre, but this one is great.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science<\/em> &#8211; Culdasa (John Yates), 2015. This is the first truly helpful meditation book I&#8217;ve read to go beyond the basics of &#8220;note your thoughts, let them go.&#8221; It explicitly lays out steps to proceed through the stages of meditation (using the breath at the nostrils) and how to handle the hindrances and pitfalls that arise. I borrowed it through the library but will buy my own copy &#8211; a step I rarely take these days, only with books I will intend to keep for the rest of my life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my Nine Year-Old Self<\/em> &#8211; Katherine Langrish, 2021. Read for <a href=\"https:\/\/calmgrove.wordpress.com\/2022\/07\/29\/narniathon21-2\/\">#Narniathon2021<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>No Exit<\/em> &#8211; Taylor Adams, 2018. Change of pace: a can&#8217;t-put-it-down thriller. I loved its plot twists even though a couple telegraphed themselves from miles away. I&#8217;d rank this with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2005\/03\/vertical-run-joseph-r-garber-1995\/\"><em>Vertical Ru<\/em>n<\/a> as a reader&#8217;s advisory &#8220;Sure Bet.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Caws papers: the last few were in Spanish so I didn&#8217;t list them, but this month I digitized and uploaded &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/CAWTPO\">The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager<\/a>.&#8221; I learned strong and weak induction in <a href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~barring\/cs250s18\/\">CS 250<\/a> and could barely wrap my head around that, so to really follow this argument I&#8217;d need to read it a bunch more times. I&#8217;d rather focus on digitizing more papers, but it&#8217;s out there now for anyone else who wants to dive in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Caws papers: the last few were in Spanish so I didn&#8217;t list them, but this month I digitized and uploaded &#8220;The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager.&#8221; I learned strong and weak induction in CS 250 and could barely wrap my head around that, so to really follow this argument I&#8217;d need 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-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","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=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}