{"id":499,"date":"2018-01-31T23:19:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T04:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:07:53","slug":"january-2018-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/01\/january-2018-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2018 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Mister God, This is Anna<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;Fynn&#8221;, 1975. I first read this in my grandmother&#8217;s collection, probably not long after it came out. She presumably got it or liked it because it&#8217;s &#8220;Christian,&#8221; but it isn&#8217;t very&#8230; more a weird mix of metaphysics, math, and Cockney life. Before the Internet I looked but couldn&#8217;t find much information; now there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/therealfynn.finchden.com\/intro\/\">site<\/a> devoted to MGTIA and its author, Sydney George Hopkins.<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/master-frisky.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/master-frisky-206x300.png\" alt=\"Master Frisky\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/master-frisky-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/master-frisky-69x100.png 69w, https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/master-frisky.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master Frisky, Clarence Hawkes&#8217; dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Hitting the Dark Trail<\/em> (1915); <em>Master Frisky<\/em> (1902) &#8211; Clarence Hawkes. I started a Hawkes kick in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/12\/december-2017-books-read\/\">December<\/a> because he&#8217;s a local author, and they&#8217;re interesting for that reason, but otherwise not very good. There&#8217;s more on his blindness in <em>Dark Trail<\/em>, but not much, and a lot of things that are confusing (he does a lot of research by studying maps? how? No mention of them being relief maps, and where would he get those? It may be that by &#8220;I&#8221; he means &#8220;me and my wife?&#8221;) And <em>Frisky<\/em>, about his adorable collie, wanders all over the place, with plenty of misbehaving-but-cute-youngster-ends-up-dead anecdotes which characterize early moralizing tales.<\/li>\n<li><em>T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/01\/the-selfish-gene-40th-anniversary-edition-richard-dawkins-2016-original-1976-2nd-ed-1989\/\">he Selfish Gene<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Richard Dawkins, 2016 (4th edition; first was 1976)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/01\/the-underground-railroad-colson-whitehead-2016\/\"><em>The Underground Railroad<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Colson Whitehead, 2016<\/li>\n<li><em>Four Day&#8217;s Wonder<\/em> &#8211; A. A. Milne, 1933. Cute and silly mystery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/01\/literary-wonderlands-a-journey-through-the-greatest-fictional-worlds-ever-created-ed-laura-miller-2016\/\"><em>Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created<\/em><\/a> &#8211; ed. Laura Miller, 2016<\/li>\n<li><em>Moby-Dick; or, The Whale<\/em> &#8211; Herman Melville, 1851 \u2013 quotes pulled, review tdb<\/li>\n<li><em>D&#8217;Aulaire&#8217;s Book of Norse Myths<\/em> &#8211; Ingri and Edgar Parin D&#8217;Aulaire, 1967. I first read most of this in a bookstore as a kid&#8212;I think Shakespeare and Co. in Paris!&#8211;enchanted by the colorful lithograph-looking illustrations (the jacked says they used acetate sheets) but unable to justify the price. Still beautiful and interesting, and the new introduction by Michael Chabon is great.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/02\/how-to-read-nancy-the-elements-of-comics-in-three-easy-panels-paul-karasik-mark-newgarden-2017\/\"><em>How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Paul Karasik &amp; Mark Newgarden, 2017<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lathe of Heaven<\/em> &#8211; Ursula K. Le Guin. Re-read in honor of her death. A perfect novel in every way.<\/li>\n<li><em>Roadside Picnic<\/em> &#8211; Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1971. Read to discuss <em>Stalker<\/em> at the Forbes Far Out Film Discussion. It&#8217;s not as unlike the movie as Tarkovsky claims, but enough unlike that I wish I hadn&#8217;t read it before watching, as it threw off a lot of my reactions. Interesting conceit but I didn&#8217;t care much for it&#8211;a little too &#8220;just so.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mister God, This is Anna &#8211; &#8220;Fynn&#8221;, 1975. I first read this in my grandmother&#8217;s collection, probably not long after it came out. She presumably got it or liked it because it&#8217;s &#8220;Christian,&#8221; but it isn&#8217;t very&#8230; more a weird mix of metaphysics, math, and Cockney life. 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