{"id":4807,"date":"2025-09-30T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:35:02","slug":"september-2025-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2025\/09\/september-2025-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2025 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>A Month in the Country<\/em> &#8211; J. L. Carr, 1980. Second Monday selection; one attendee described it as &#8220;a perfect novel&#8221; and that&#8217;s&#8217;not far off. I marked only four quotes\/&#8221;in this book I learned&#8221;s. I haven&#8217;t really had a cut-off between monthly lists and what rates an individual post, so maybe I&#8217;ll make it five!\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk\/words\/rulley\">rulley<\/a> &#8211; Yorkshire term for a flat cart<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Estovers\">estovers<\/a> &#8211; allowance of wood to be taken from the commons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;This one either is excessively hot, on occasions, red-hot (in point of fact) or else just keeping itself and no-one else warm.&#8217; And he gave it a resentful little kick. They glowered at one another like ancient enemies.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;If I\u2019d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors<\/em> &#8211; Erika Howsare, 2024. Nature and Environment selection; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Look Homeward, Angel<\/em> &#8211; Thomas Wolfe, 1929. Great Books selection; quotes TBD (I read it as a teenager or young adult)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Hugh Lofting&#8217;s Travels of Doctor Dolittle<\/em> &#8211; Al Perkins, illustrated by Philip Wende, 1967. I embarked on a Dr Dolittle re-read a few months ago and remembered a picture book adaptation I&#8217;d had as a kid. It may have been prompted by seeing the movie. To my surprise this is quite rare, but I was able to get it through the Commonwealth library system. The text is enh (thank goodness I went on to read the Lofting books as a kid) but the illustrations are memorable &#8211; a bit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ligne_claire\">ligne claire<\/a> but with visible cross-hatching. I can&#8217;t find out much about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/341394.Philip_Wende\">Wende<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Kindred<\/em> &#8211; Octavia Butler, 1979. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massbook.org\/readingchallenge\">Mass Center for the Book<\/a> suggestion for September, &#8220;A book told in non-chronological order.&#8221; I wrote: &#8220;Compelling and vivid &#8211; it&#8217;s been on my TBR list forever and I&#8217;m so glad I finally read this classic, but it&#8217;s harrowing.&#8221; The relationship between narrator Dana and her ancestor Rufus is complicated and fascinating. I might put this on the suggested list for Great Books &#8211; I&#8217;ll be thinking about this one for quite a while.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Big Damn Hero<\/em> (Firefly #1) &#8211; James Lovegrove, 2018. Not as good as the one I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2025\/08\/august-2025-books-read\/\">last month<\/a>, but I enjoyed it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\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-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","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=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}