{"id":4556,"date":"2025-03-31T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:18:01","slug":"march-2025-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2025\/03\/march-2025-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2025 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Green Mansions<\/em> &#8211; William Henry Hudson, 1904. I have seen so many references to this over my reading life (especially about &#8220;Rima the bird-girl&#8221;) that I&#8217;m not sure why I hadn&#8217;t read it before. It&#8217;s weird, not great but quite interesting (despite lots of racism).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The End of Drum-Time<\/em> &#8211; Hanna Pylvainen, 2023. Second Monday selection; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life<\/em> &#8211; Johan Ekl\u00f6f (tr. Elizabeth DeNoma), 2020. Nature Environment selection; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood<\/em> &#8211; Trevor Noah, 2016. Massachusetts Center for the Book, &#8220;A book about someone with a marginalized identity&#8221; (this was on their <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6373c623e1adcf72e307e7f0\/t\/67ae1e11d5cdd82fc9a4cb42\/1739464209968\/Social+RC+Book+Recs.pdf\">suggested list<\/a> and I&#8217;d heard good things about it). I wrote: &#8220;A charming memoir, mixing the comic, tragic, and everyday aspects of growing up mixed under apartheid and its aftershocks.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> &#8211; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, 1962. Great Books selection (re-read); quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Hunger Games<\/em> &#8211; Suzanne Collins, 2008. I read this when it came out, as well as the sequel (I don&#8217;t remember if I read the third in the series, and definitely did not read the fourth). The fifth, which just came out, is getting excellent reviews, and a book group friend talks about how good they are, so I figured I&#8217;d re-embark on the journey. Yeah, it&#8217;s not bad. My biggest issue is how the producers\/camera operators etc. are invisible and morally neutral. Current reality TV (esp. listening to the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/on-fire-with-jeff-probst-the-official-survivor-podcast\/id1673596832\"><em>On Fire<\/em><\/a> podcast and reading the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/03\/march-2019-books-read\/\">Bachelor Nation<\/a><\/em>) keeps their viewpoint in my mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mysterious_Stranger\">The Mysterious Stranger<\/a>&#8221; (1916 version) and &#8220;The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg&#8221; (1899) by Mark Twain (both re-reads). &#8220;Mysterious Stranger&#8221; came up in a Far Out Film meeting. Now that I know about the alternate versions I&#8217;m interested to try them too; it&#8217;s super-weird and fascinating.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Flowering Judas&#8221; (1930) by Katherine Anne Porter, for <a href=\"https:\/\/georgesaunders.substack.com\/\">Story Club<\/a>. I read it twice, read George Saunders&#8217; great analysis and most of the comments, but still don&#8217;t 100% get\/appreciate it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short stories<\/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-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","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=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}