{"id":3517,"date":"2023-09-30T20:45:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2023-10-20T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T00:03:36","slug":"september-2023-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2023\/09\/september-2023-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2023 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope<\/em> &#8211; Megan Phelps-Roper, 2019. I&#8217;ve been transcribing my aunt&#8217;s draft memoir of growing up in the Exclusive Brethren, so this was full of meaning for me. I remember Megan&#8217;s exit from the Phelps family, and how remarkable and hopeful it felt; it fascinating to read the back story, and it communicated especially well how hard it was to leave.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Our Missing Hearts<\/em> &#8211; Celeste Ng, 2022. Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us<\/em> &#8211; Ed Yong, 2022. Quotes pulled &#8211; SO many quotes! TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Double Star<\/em> &#8211; Robert Heinlein, 1956. I can&#8217;t remember what got me to re-read this excellent Heinlein, beyond getting the taste of the late period ones out of my brain&#8230; it&#8217;s short and delightful. The Martian culture is both alien and believable. &#8220;I see you, Rringriil.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Till We Have Faces<\/em> &#8211; C. S. Lewis, 1956. Quotes pulled, TBD (re-read).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>What Katy Did<\/em> and <em>What Katy Did at School<\/em>  &#8211; Susan Coolidge, 1872 and 1873. Umpteenth re-read of this series my dad introduced me to. I always think of him when I revisit these books, and this time around I wondered how much they influenced his positive view of women. I also compared the first one to <em>Little Women<\/em> &#8211; same publisher, just a few years later, clearly addressing the market need &#8211; and realized I think it&#8217;s better in some ways, especially the quirkiness of the children.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>You Could Make This Place Beautiful<\/em> &#8211; Maggie Smith, 2023. Wow, this was quite a ride. It was more bitter than I expected, but also more experimental and interesting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Lulu and the Dog from the Sea<\/em> &#8211; Hilary McKay, 2011. Read for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.massbook.org\/readingchallenge\">Massachusetts Center for the Book<\/a>&nbsp;September challenge, &#8220;A book by an author with your first or last name.&#8221; Challenging for me &#8211; one-L-Hilary is rare enough, but Jonathan and I are the only two Caws-Elwitts in the world. I had a lot to read this month so picked something super-short. My one-sentence description: &#8220;A sweet tale of two intrepid friends, an old tired dog, and a young wild dog.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Wind&#8217;s Twelve Corners<\/em> &#8211; Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975. <a href=\"https:\/\/calmgrove.wordpress.com\/2023\/09\/29\/wind\/#comment-67268\">Read<\/a> (re-read) for Calmgrove&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/calmgrove.wordpress.com\/category\/books\/lovehain\/\">#LoveHain<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dragon&#8217;s Egg<\/em> &#8211; Robert Forward, 1980. A classic I&#8217;d never head of until just recently. Fascinating ideas &#8211; a truly remarkable and believable alien species you see evolve &#8211; written in pedestrian style, but the creativity wins over the writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\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-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}