{"id":4495,"date":"2025-02-28T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T01:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:14:50","slug":"february-2025-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2025\/02\/february-2025-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2025 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2025\/02\/just-like-you-nick-hornby-2020\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4531\">Just Like You<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Nick Hornby, 2020. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet<\/em> &#8211; Ben Goldfarb, 2023. Nature and Enviro selection, quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Gifts<\/em> (2004) and <em>Voices<\/em> (2006) &#8211; Ursula Le Guin, Annals of the Western Shore #1 and #2. I was recommending more recent Le Guin to my mother-in-law, raved about these, and went to pick them up again. I&#8217;m saving the third for when I have time to appreciate it. Le Guin at the absolute top of her form!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Transit of Venus<\/em> &#8211; Shirley Hazzard, 1980. Great Books selection, quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>After London; or, Wild England<\/em> &#8211; Robert Jeffries, 1885. Read for the Mass Center for the Book February challenge: &#8220;A novel with the name of a city in its title.&#8221; I wrote &#8220;Although there&#8217;s a bit of how the English countryside would change after some unspecified disaster that wiped out the population, it&#8217;s mostly the adventures of a young man in a society much like the Middle Ages. I&#8217;m glad I finally read it, but I found it somewhat disappointing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Novellas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;The Man Who Would Be King,&#8221; Rudyard Kipling, 1888 &#8211; Read (if I&#8217;d read this before, I don&#8217;t remember it) because when we discussed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Narcissus\">Black Narcissus<\/a><\/em> at a Far Out Film meeting, the movie was mentioned as a comparison. I love lots of Kipling, but I often find him confusing, and this was very elliptical. (I think my dad had mentioned this work because it references <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Brooke\">James Brooke<\/a>, whom family lore identifies as an ancestor. None of my genealogical research finds a connection though.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;The Death of Ivan Ilyich,&#8221; Tolstoy, 1886. I read the Pevear\/Volokonsky translation, and re-read the Garnett, to participate in the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/georgesaunders.substack.com\/\">Story Club<\/a>. I got so much more out of this classic with Saunders&#8217; guidance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novellas<\/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-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","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=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4594,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}