{"id":4694,"date":"2025-06-30T20:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:12:29","slug":"june-2025-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2025\/06\/june-2025-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2025 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Brooklyn<\/em> &#8211; Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn, 2009. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/book_groups\/Second_Monday.htm\">Second Monday<\/a> book selection. This is the fourth T\u00f3ib\u00edn I&#8217;ve read with this group, and the first I actually enjoyed. But I only pulled one quote: &#8220;They knew so much, each of them, &#8230; that they could do everything except say out loud what it was they were thinking.&#8221; I&#8217;ll try the movie at some point.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell By Shattered Shell<\/em> &#8211; Sy Montgomery, 2023. Nature Enviro selection, quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Wind in the Willows<\/em> &#8211; Kenneth Grahame, 1908. Great Books selection (multiple re-read), quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Head of the House of Coombe<\/em> (1922) and <em>Robin<\/em> (1922) &#8211; Frances Hodgson Burnett. I&#8217;ve read this two-part novel several times, and produced <em>Robin<\/em> for Project Gutenberg because it was missing. I found a bunch of typos in the first one, which led me to a brief adventure using Github repos to report PG errors, but that&#8217;s already rolled back, so I&#8217;ll submit the revised files &#8211; at least it got me to actually do it, thanks to Jonathan doing the research. I&#8217;ve always meant to figure out how to submit corrections, and now I&#8217;ll plan on making it a habit. It&#8217;s time-consuming but feels very worth it. I marked two things I looked up:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liebig%27s_Extract_of_Meat_Company\">Liebig<\/a> &#8211; beef extract<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scatterbrained nurse is absorbed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lady_Audley%27s_Secret\">Lady Audley&#8217;s Secret<\/a><\/em>. I read that a while back &#8211; don&#8217;t remember it but it was compelling!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The House of the Seven Gables<\/em> &#8211; Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851. The Massachusetts Center for the Book challenge was &#8220;A book that spans multiple generations.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t think of one that appealed (and my rule is I must not have read it before), so I turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6373c623e1adcf72e307e7f0\/t\/67e2ccea5fd088610d791de0\/1742916842575\/2025+Book+Recs+%281080+x+1350+px%29+%282%29.pdf\">their suggestions<\/a>. My writeup: &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad I finally read this &#8211; it&#8217;s charming and not as dark as other Hawthornes, although plenty spooky. Hepzibah, Phoebe, and little Ned Higgins, insatiable devourer of gingerbread, are particularly endearing.&#8221; I found a bunch of typos in the Gutenberg edition, but fewer than in the Burnett, so they are already fixed for posterity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Hereward the Wake: Last of the English<\/em> &#8211; Charles Kingsley, 1866. I picked this up last month because the protagonist of <em>T. Tembarom<\/em> refers to it. Quotes marked, TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Talking Turkey<\/em> &#8211; Hilary Caws-Elwitt, unpublished mss (2014). I guess I&#8217;ll re-read my own book (it&#8217;s middle grade animal fantasy) every few years to make sure I still like it&#8230; and I do. I might self-publish at some point, I suppose, not under the illusion that anyone else will read it. (If you want to check it out, <a href=\"mailto:hcethatsme@gmail.com?subject=Talking Turkey\">let me know<\/a>!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Long Walk<\/em> &#8211; Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman, 1978. I saw a trailer for the new movie and was prompted to pick this up again. It&#8217;s the most memorable of the Bachmans to me, and of course it led the way for the <em>Hunger Games<\/em> books and <em>Squid Game<\/em> show. Not great but readable.<\/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-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","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=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}