{"id":555,"date":"2018-03-31T21:54:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:04:03","slug":"march-2018-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/03\/march-2018-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2018 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Station Eleven<\/em> &#8211; Emily St. John Mandel, 2014<\/li>\n<li><em>Running with the Mind of Mindfulness<\/em><span data-original-name=\"Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind\">: <em>Lessons for Training Body and Mind<\/em> &#8211; <\/span><span data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiU153Zk6naAhUEnlkKHVkgD24Q2koIzQEoAjAM\">Sakyong Mipham, 2012<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>Candide<\/em> &#8211; Voltaire, 1759 &#8211; Wow, I thought I had marked passages in this, since I read it for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_great_books_salticid.com\">Great Books group<\/a>, but no record of a draft post or anything. I&#8217;ll come back if something turns up!<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/03\/the-hidden-life-of-trees-what-they-feel-how-they-communicate-discoveries-from-a-secret-world-peter-wohlleben-2016\/\">The Hidden Life of Trees<\/a>: What They Feel, How They Communicate; Discoveries from a Secret World<\/em> &#8211; Peter Wohlleben, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lost Boys<\/em> &#8211; Orson Scott Card, 1989 &#8211; multiple re-read<\/li>\n<li><em>Amphigorey <\/em>(1972) and <em>Amphigorey Too <\/em>(1975) &#8211; Edward Gorey, re-reads because of the very interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/thewadsworth.org\/exhibitions\/goreys-worlds\/\">exhibit<\/a> at the Wadsworth Atheneum. I was given the second when it came out (I would have been 11 or so) and pored over it many times, but didn&#8217;t get the first until later. I really want to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardgoreyhouse.org\/\">Gorey house<\/a> on Cape Cod someday&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>The &#8220;Odessey&#8221;: The Zombies in Words and Images<\/em> &#8211; Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Hugh Grundy, Chris White, with Scott B. Bomar and Cindy Da Silva, 2017<\/li>\n<li><em>Annihilation<\/em> &#8211; <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"93\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiPgPWo94faAhUDqlkKHUc8AzkQ4EUIXTAC\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/span>, 2014 &#8211; I saw the movie first and actually prefer it quite a bit.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cold Mountain<\/em> &#8211; Han-shan, tr. Burton Watston, 1992<\/li>\n<li><em>Why We Run: A Natural History<\/em> &#8211; Bernd Heinrich, 2002<\/li>\n<li><em>High Stakes<\/em> &#8211; Dick Francis, 1975 &#8211; Comfort reading but I think I&#8217;m getting a little sick of DF, even the good stuff that was written by his wife. I can&#8217;t unread the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=s2WQrgcJ19kC&amp;pg=PA58&amp;lpg=PA58&amp;dq=lord+gnome+dick+francis&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=G_ZNtyHIgr&amp;sig=As8M844TvxG9N1zGdeLa1y3io7k&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj4tomc6JbaAhUDn-AKHYnlAxMQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&amp;q=lord%20gnome%20dick%20francis&amp;f=false\">hysterical take-down<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/swanktrendz.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/lord-gnomes-literary-companion-by.html\"><em>Lord Gnome&#8217;s Literary Companion<\/em><\/a>, a great book I have somewhere and want to re-read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Station Eleven &#8211; Emily St. John Mandel, 2014 Running with the Mind of Mindfulness: Lessons for Training Body and Mind &#8211; Sakyong Mipham, 2012 Candide &#8211; Voltaire, 1759 &#8211; Wow, I thought I had marked passages in this, since I read it for the Great Books group, but no record of a draft post or [&hellip;]<\/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-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}