{"id":4918,"date":"2026-01-31T20:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:17:35","slug":"january-2026-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2026\/01\/january-2026-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2026 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not many books this month &#8211; huge work project and <em>Bleak House<\/em> is super-long!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Ulysses<\/em> &#8211; James Joyce, 1922. Re-read, with Amherst Book Club; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Unconsoled<\/em> &#8211; Kazuo Ishiguro, 1995. Second Monday; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World<\/em> &#8211; Brandon Keim, 2024. Nature &amp; Environment; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Bleak House<\/em> &#8211; Charles Dickens, 1853. Great Books selection, re-read, and also satisfying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massbook.org\/readingchallenge\">Massachusetts Center for the Book<\/a> January challenge, &#8220;a book about or set in winter.&#8221; I wrote: &#8220;Snowstorm Fern was the perfect time to finish this classic, which climaxes in a carriage-ride through snowy London. It takes a while to build momentum but it&#8217;s worth the investment of time to meet memorable characters and one of the first detectives in fiction.&#8221; Quotes TBD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Moominsummer Madness<\/em> &#8211; Tove Jansson, 1954. For the ABC spin-off childrens&#8217; book group; quotes TBD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short stories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/2814\/2814-h\/2814-h.htm#chap15\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/2814\/2814-h\/2814-h.htm#chap15\">The Dead<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; James Joyce, 1914. We read this after <em>Ulysses<\/em>; probably my 5th or 6th time. A masterpiece! Then we watched the 1987 John Huston movie, which was a disappointment. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many books this month &#8211; huge work project and Bleak House is super-long! 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-4918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918","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=4918"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}