{"id":380,"date":"2017-07-31T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:06:42","slug":"july-2017-to-be-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/07\/july-2017-to-be-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2017 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to Jonathan about my pattern with this blog since its inception: I really enjoy having written each post, but don&#8217;t get to it very often because it takes time and energy, and then the books pile up physically and psychically because I impractically think I&#8217;ll do each one. He suggested that I just do the ones I actually get to, which I&#8217;ve attempted before. But starting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=275\">2016<\/a>, while my blogs were down, I started just a running list and that was satisfying in its own way. So my compromise idea is to make a list and link in the posts if I actually write them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The\u00a0Sea-Gull<\/em> &#8211; Anton Chekhov, 1895 &#8211; in preparation for seeing Aaron Posner&#8217;s Stupid Fucking Bird at Silverthorne, which was great!<\/li>\n<li><em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em> &#8211; J.D. Vance, 2016<\/li>\n<li><em>A Canticle for Leibowitz<\/em> &#8211; Walter Miller Jr., 1960<\/li>\n<li><em>How to Become a Straight-A Student<\/em> &#8211; Cal Newport, 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=360\"><i>The Noise of Time<\/i> \u2013 Julian Barnes, 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/08\/the-end-of-night-searching-for-natural-darkness-in-an-age-of-artificial-light-paul-bogard-2013\/\"><em>The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Paul Bogard, 2013<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=369\"><i>P\u00e8re Goriot<\/i>\u2013 Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, 1835<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>The Immaterial Murder Case<\/em> &#8211; Julian Symons, 1945<\/li>\n<li><em>Emily Dickinson Is Dead<\/em> &#8211; Jane Langton, 1984<\/li>\n<li><em>J&#8217;irai cracher sur vos tombes<\/em> &#8211; Boris Vian (as Vernon Sullivan), 1946<\/li>\n<li><em>And Five Were Foolish<\/em> &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1924<\/li>\n<li><em>As Other Men Are<\/em> &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1925<\/li>\n<li><em>Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World<\/em> &#8211; Cal Newport, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to Jonathan about my pattern with this blog since its inception: I really enjoy having written each post, but don&#8217;t get to it very often because it takes time and energy, and then the books pile up physically and psychically because I impractically think I&#8217;ll do each one. He suggested that I [&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-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}