{"id":303,"date":"2017-04-30T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T06:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:20:17","slug":"catch-up-2017-january-to-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/04\/catch-up-2017-january-to-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch-up 2017 &#8211; January to April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Better than Before<\/em> &#8211; Gretchen Rubin, 2015<\/li>\n<li><em>The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance<\/em> &#8211; Laurie Garrett, 1994 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature and Environment Book Club<\/a> book<\/li>\n<li><em>Lolita<\/em> &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 (Second Monday book club, and a re-read)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money<\/em> &#8211; Carl Richards,<br \/>\n2012<\/li>\n<li><em>Folklore and Legends of Rochester: The Mystery of Hoodoo Corner &amp; Other Tales<\/em> &#8211; Michael Keene, 2011<\/li>\n<li><em>Inside Job<\/em> &#8211; Connie Willis, 2005<\/li>\n<li><em>Goodbye, Mr. Chips<\/em> (1934);\u00a0<em>To You, Mr. Chips<\/em> (1938) &#8211; James Hilton (re-read of GMC for the umpteenth time; TYMC first and probably last time)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Way We Live Now<\/em> &#8211; Anthony Trollope, 1875 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_great_books_salticid.com\">Forbes Great Books<\/a> group book<\/li>\n<li><em>Oms en s\u00e9rie<\/em> &#8211; Stefan Wuhl, 1957<\/li>\n<li><em>Living with a Wild God:\u00a0A Nonbeliever&#8217;s Search for the Truth about Everything<\/em> &#8211; Barbara Ehrenreich, 2014<\/li>\n<li><em>Jude the Obscure<\/em> &#8211; Thomas Hardy, 1895 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_great_books_salticid.com\">Forbes Great Books<\/a> group book (had read it as a teenager)<\/li>\n<li><em>People of the Book<\/em> &#8211; Geraldine Brooks, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Wave<\/em> &#8211; Susan Casey, 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature and Environment Book Club<\/a> book. The most disappointing choice so far. The actual wave stuff was great; the Laird Hamilton fangirling, not so much.<\/li>\n<li><em>Catch-22<\/em> &#8211; Joseph Heller, 1961 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_great_books_salticid.com\">Forbes Great Books<\/a> group book<\/li>\n<li><em>Maia<\/em> &#8211; Richard Adams, 1984 (umpteenth\u00a0re-read)<\/li>\n<li><em>The End of Your Life Book Club<\/em> &#8211; Will Schwalbe, 2012<\/li>\n<li>One of the Frank Burly detective books by<span class=\"st\"> John Swartzwelder. I can&#8217;t remember which one; probably <em>The Time Machine Did It<\/em> (2004). I skimmed a few others&#8212;Jonathan requested them through ILL. The author wrote a bunch of Simpsons episodes and it&#8217;s that kind of humor, only even more absurdist and ridiculous.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>March 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Heritage of the Star<\/em> &#8211; Sylvia Engdahl, 1973 (umpteenth re-read)<\/li>\n<li><em>1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus<\/em> &#8211; Charles Mann, 2005 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature and Environment Book Club<\/a> book<\/li>\n<li><em>Pompeii<\/em> &#8211; Robert Harris, 2003 (Second Monday book group)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEthics and Temporality: when are moral propositions true?\u201d Peter Caws, in H. Dyke, <em>Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection<\/em>, 2003. &#8211; I went through a phase, or rather a habit I tried to pick up but didn&#8217;t for long, of reading one of my father&#8217;s essays a week so I could talk to him about them. We didn&#8217;t end up doing that, but I jotted down some notes; for this one, the question whether the axioms \u201cslavery is wrong\u201d and \u201c13 is a prime number\u201d were true at the time of dinosaurs, of Socrates, and now<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBeing Educated Any Time (But Especially in 1984)\u201d\u00a0 Peter Caws, GW Forum, 1984 &#8211; the state of vs process of education; direct vs indirect knowledge (but what about skill practice as in math?)<\/li>\n<li><em>I, Claudius<\/em> &#8211; Robert Graves, 1934 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_great_books_salticid.com\">Forbes Great Books<\/a> group book. Too relevant to today, shudder!<\/li>\n<li><em><\/em><em>Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; John Horgan, 2003<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhy Should There Be Only Something &#8212; Why Not Much Rather Everything?\u201d Peter Caws, undated talk &#8211; Knowing that vs knowing why. Quote from Peter Medawar: &#8220;research is the art of the soluble.&#8221; Philosophy tackling problems beyond our competence, but \u201cphilosophy is the art of the intelligible.\u201d \u201cThe best evidence that there never was Nothing is that there is now Something.\u201d&#8211;alternative to Something rather than supplement. Enlightenment comes from studying the limiters\/negative controllers rather than origins and causes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>April 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Telling<\/em>\u00a0(2000),\u00a0<em>Four Ways to Forgiveness<\/em>\u00a0(1995) &#8211; Ursula Le Guin (re-reads)<\/li>\n<li><em>Snowdrops<\/em> &#8211; A.D. Miller, 2010 (Second Monday book group)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLearning to say \u2018I\u2019: the subject as patient and agent\u201d &#8211; Peter Caws, 1994 &#8211; \u201cobscurity of the normal surrounded with the clarity of the anomalous\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Countdown:\u00a0Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?<\/em> &#8211; Alan Weisman, 2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature and Environment Book Club<\/a> book<\/li>\n<li><em>Lock In<\/em> &#8211; John Scalzi, 2014<\/li>\n<li><em>Circus of Dr. Lao<\/em> &#8211; Charles Finney, 1935<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2017 Better than Before &#8211; Gretchen Rubin, 2015 The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance &#8211; Laurie Garrett, 1994 &#8211; Nature and Environment Book Club book Lolita &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 (Second Monday book club, and a re-read) The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with [&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-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}