{"id":4322,"date":"2024-11-30T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T01:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2024-12-08T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T22:40:39","slug":"november-2024-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2024\/11\/november-2024-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2024 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Great God Pan<\/em> &#8211; Arthur Machen, 1890. This has been on my radar forever, but what prompted me to finally read it was our friend Harold pointing me to Bob Dylan&#8217;s tweet saying it&#8217;s one of his favorite books. He&#8217;s a strange man and it&#8217;s a strange book &#8211; clearly it influenced Lovecraft a lot.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen<\/em> &#8211; Christopher McDougall, 2009. Another long-dweller in the TBR list. I got so much out of the Eric Orton book that I finally picked this up. I did finish it but kind of hated it, especially the way McDougall exaggerates everything.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Memory Police<\/em> &#8211; Yoko Ogawa. Second Monday; I didn&#8217;t love it but we had a good discussion. Only one thing I looked up, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramune_candy\"><em>ramune<\/em> candy<\/a> (akin to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smarties_(tablet_candy)\">Smarties<\/a>?) and one quote: &#8220;A heart has no shape, no limits. That&#8217;s why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It&#8217;s much like your memory, in that sense.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Souls<\/em> &#8211; Joanna Russ, 1982. My go-to when I am distressed about humanity, so I re-read this the day after the election.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us<\/em> &#8211; Margaret Lowman, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature and Environment<\/a> group selection, quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Kristin Lavransdatter<\/em> v1: <em>The Bridal Wreath<\/em> &#8211; Sigrid Undset, 1920.  <a href=\"https:\/\/salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_great_books_salticid.com\">Great Books<\/a> selection, quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>James<\/em> &#8211; Percival Everett, 2024. Amherst Book Club, quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Erasure<\/em> &#8211; Percival Everett, 2001. Quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Book of (More) Delights<\/em> &#8211; Ross Gay, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massbook.org\/readingchallenge\">Massachusetts Center for the Book<\/a> November challenge: &#8220;A relaxing, soul-soothing book.&#8221; I wrote: &#8220;A wonderful follow-up to one of my favorite books of the past decade. Gay&#8217;s wise, sharp, funny, touching essays find beauty and challenge in the everyday.&#8221; I was lucky enough to get this signed at his reading in Northampton &#8211; if you ever have a chance to see him speak, don&#8217;t miss it! He is even lovelier, warmer, and funnier in person.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/em> &#8211; Timothy Snyder, 2017. I&#8217;d meant to read this for ages. It&#8217;s very good, and brought me the tiniest gleam of hope&#8230;<\/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-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4399,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}