{"id":4030,"date":"2024-06-30T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2024-07-14T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T21:12:08","slug":"june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2024\/06\/june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Cool Impossible: The Coach from &#8220;Born to Run&#8221; Shows How to Get the Most from Your Miles\u2014and from Yourself<\/em> &#8211; Eric Orton, 2013. I haven&#8217;t yet read <em>Born to Run<\/em>, but this book was recommended for improving foot strength. Reviewers warned that you have to slog through a second-person story of a week &#8220;you&#8221; spend with Orton in Jackson Hole, and they were right&#8230; which means that most of the pages are kind of tedious, but the fundamental program seems awesome. I have already started doing slow runs only breathing through my nose, I bought a slant board, and I intend to work on the heart rate training, sugar detox, and other exercises.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Captains Courageous<\/em> &#8211; Rudyard Kipling, 1897. Re-read because our current Amherst College slow-read book is <em>Moby Dick<\/em>, and the long sea voyage reminded me of this all-time favorite.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books<\/em> &#8211; Lynne Sharon Schwartz, 1996. I think this was pushed at me when I was looking for the amazing <em>The Child That Books Built<\/em>. I enjoyed it, especially because Schwartz&#8217;s favorite book as a kid was <em>The Secret Princess<\/em>, which I also love, but the book overall didn&#8217;t really stick with me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir<\/em> &#8211; Meir Shalev (tr. Evan Fallenberg), 2009. Second Monday choice; quote dump TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law<\/em> &#8211; Mary Roach, 2021. Nature\/Environment selection; quote dump TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Pnin<\/em> &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov, 1957. Re-read with the friend group that started with Proust. Quote dump TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Fathers and Sons<\/em> &#8211; Ivan Turgenev (tr. Constance Garnett), 1862. Great Books; quote dump TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Poor Charlie&#8217;s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger<\/em> &#8211; Charles Munger, 2023 (3rd abridged edition). Comments got long so I&#8217;m working on a full post for this one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Princess Bride<\/em> &#8211; William Goldman, 1973. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massbook.org\/readingchallenge\">Center for the Book reading challenge<\/a>: &#8220;<em>A book that inspired a film or television series<\/em>.&#8221; I actually didn&#8217;t love this; I liked it OK, same as the movie, and they&#8217;re pretty-good-not-great in different ways. My submission: &#8220;Interesting to finally read the source for the classic movie, especially Goldman&#8217;s additional framing of trying to a source a copy for his kid and editing what we supposedly are reading. The movie is a very faithful adaptation, but some aspects of character development are better as a novel.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","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=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}