Wish I could keep up with this—or that I could download thoughts directly from my head—but at least I will try to continue to list titles. So, to catch up:<\/p>\n
Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/strong> Arthur C. Clarke<\/strong> Michael Crichton<\/strong> Mark Doty<\/strong> Sue Grafton<\/strong> Maria Dahvana Headley<\/strong> Ursula LeGuin<\/strong> Nigel Marsh<\/strong> Jean Shepherd<\/strong> Wish I could keep up with this—or that I could download thoughts directly from my head—but at least I will try to continue to list titles. So, to catch up: Charlotte Bront\u00eb Jane Eyre, 1847 Read on my Sony Reader. One of my all-time favorites. Arthur C. Clarke Dolphin Island: A Story of the People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJane Eyre<\/em>, 1847
\nRead on my Sony Reader. One of my all-time favorites.<\/p>\n
\nDolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea<\/em>, 1963
\nRe-read because of a query that came up on Project Wombat<\/a>. Led me to this page<\/a> about Mary Watson. [gone now and can’t reach through Wayback, but here’s a replacement]<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Great Train Robbery<\/em>, 1975
\nSphere<\/em>, 1987
\nCrichton is so darn readable, but he holds up less and less well as I get older. I don’t think I’d actually read GTR before; it over-relies on contemporary slang for color, but I enjoyed that part most of all.<\/p>\n
\nDog Years: A Memoir<\/em>, 2007
\nLarge print, read on the elliptical trainer. Well-written if a little self-indulgent.<\/p>\n
\nT is for Trespass<\/em>, 2007
\nGrafton writes as well as ever but my taste for her is fading. Is time passing so slowly in Santa Teresa (it’s now January 1987) because she doesn’t want Henry to die of old age? Not that I blame her—he’s a great character. Suprisingly action-filled ending.<\/p>\n
\nThe Year of Yes: A Memoir<\/em>, 2006
\nIt took me a while to get used to the author’s voice, but I loved it! Fascinating, especially to see the world through the eyes of someone who is constantly propositioned (I grew up in NYC and thankfully had a very different experience) and apparently has very little need to sleep. She crammed an incredible range of experience into her 21st year.<\/p>\n
\nPowers<\/em>, 2007
\nOne of the strongest of her novels in years. Truly great. The “Annals of the Western Shore” almost live up to the Earthsea books.<\/p>\n
\nFat, Forty, and Fired<\/em>, 2007
\nEhhh… Wanted to like it, but I had to skim big chunks. The comparison to Ray Romano on the jacket flap is right on.<\/p>\n
\nIn God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash<\/em>, 1966
\nI hadn’t actually read this all the way through before, but I remembered “Hairy Gertz and the Forty-Seven Crappies” making me laugh out loud in the bookstore. Still somewhat funny, but no long rip-snortingly so for me. The photo<\/a> on the back of the book makes him look totally unlike his author personality. Now that we have YouTube and Google Images I have a better sense of him—check out this clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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