{"id":577,"date":"2018-04-30T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:04:17","slug":"april-2018-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/04\/april-2018-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2018 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>The Devil&#8217;s Children<\/em> &#8211; Peter Dickinson, 1970<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/04\/scoop-evelyn-waugh-1938\/\"><em>Scoop<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Evelyn Waugh, 1937<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/04\/sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind-yuval-noah-harari-2015\/\"><em>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Yuval Harari, 2011<\/li>\n<li><em>Adele And Co.<\/em> &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1931<\/li>\n<li><em>These Possible Lives<\/em> &#8211; Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Minna Zallman Proctor (Italian 2015, English 2017) &#8211; Interesting prose poem bios (labeled &#8220;Essays&#8221;) of Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A tiny book (hand-sized, 60 pages) that New Directions has the face to charge 12.95 for.<\/li>\n<li><em>Triggers:\u00a0Creating Behavior That Lasts&#8212;Becoming the Person You Want to Be<\/em> &#8211; Marshall Goldsmith, 2015 &#8211; I love self-help but haven&#8217;t been reading as much of it lately (that&#8217;s a good sign). This came highly recommended by Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar, one of my favorite bloggers, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesimpledollar.com\/did-i-do-my-best-today\/\">post<\/a> where he specifically referenced the technique of setting a daily goal to &#8220;do my best&#8221; on some measure and then rating yourself at the end of the day. I&#8217;ve been doing that during the month of May (&#8220;Today I will do my best to eat and drink in moderation with maximum enjoyment&#8221;) and it hasn&#8217;t been nearly as helpful for me as it was for Trent. But doing anything at all for an entire month is an achievement for me, so that&#8217;s a recommendation of some sort&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>James and the Giant Peach<\/em> &#8211; Roald Dahl, 1961 &#8211; A perennial favorite.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/04\/the-group-mary-mccarthy-1963\/\">The Group<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Mary McCarthy, 1963<\/li>\n<li><em>If This Goes On&#8212;<\/em> &#8211; Robert Heinlein, 1940<\/li>\n<li><em>Methuselah&#8217;s Children<\/em> &#8211; Robert Heinlein, 1958<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Devil&#8217;s Children &#8211; Peter Dickinson, 1970 Scoop &#8211; Evelyn Waugh, 1937 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind &#8211; Yuval Harari, 2011 Adele And Co. &#8211; Dornford Yates, 1931 These Possible Lives &#8211; Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Minna Zallman Proctor (Italian 2015, English 2017) &#8211; Interesting prose poem bios (labeled &#8220;Essays&#8221;) of Thomas De Quincey, [&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-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}