{"id":399,"date":"2017-08-31T21:18:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T01:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:23:22","slug":"august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/08\/august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2017 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/08\/guns-germs-and-steel-jared-diamond-1997-2003-2005\/\"><em>Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Jared Diamond, 1997, 2005<\/li>\n<li><em>Gifts<\/em> (Annals of the Western Shore #1) &#8211; Ursula K. LeGuin, 2004<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/09\/light-in-august-william-faulkner-1932\/\"><em>Light in August<\/em><\/a> &#8211; William Faulkner, 1932<\/li>\n<li><em>Powers<\/em> (Annals of the Western Shore #3) &#8211; Ursula K. LeGuin, 2007<\/li>\n<li><em>Voices<\/em> (Annals of the Western Shore #2) &#8211; Ursula K. LeGuin, 2006<\/li>\n<li><em>Wool Omnibus<\/em> (Silo #1) &#8211; Hugh Howey, 2012<\/li>\n<li><em>Shift<\/em> (Silo #2) &#8211; Hugh Howey, 2013<\/li>\n<li><em>Unf*ck Your Habitat<\/em> &#8211; Rachel Hoffman, 2017<\/li>\n<li><em>The Other Wes Moore<\/em> &#8211; Wes Moore, 2010 &#8211; this was the UMass Common Read. One quote I kept, about the difference between teenage transitions for young black men in the US and Africa:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>One of the key differences between the two was in the way their communities saw them. Here, burgeoning manhood was guided and celebrated through a rite of passage. At home, burgeoning manhood was a trigger for apprehension. &#8230; Our young men&#8212;along with our young women&#8212;are our strength and our future. Yet <em>we fear them<\/em>. This tall south African who now captured my attention wore his manhood as a sign of accomplishment, a badge of honor. His process was a journey taken with his peers, guided by his elders, and completed in a celebration. He was now a man. His community welcomed him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies &#8211; Jared Diamond, 1997, 2005 Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore #1) &#8211; Ursula K. LeGuin, 2004 Light in August &#8211; William Faulkner, 1932 Powers (Annals of the Western Shore #3) &#8211; Ursula K. LeGuin, 2007 Voices (Annals of the Western Shore #2) &#8211; Ursula K. [&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-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}