{"id":622,"date":"2018-06-30T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2023-09-04T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:37:05","slug":"june-2018-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/06\/june-2018-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2018 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Vacationland<\/em> &#8211; John Hodgman, 2017 &#8211; Funny, touching, local relevance<\/li>\n<li><em>Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things<\/em> &#8211; Amy Dickinson, 2017 &#8211; I met Dickinson at a Susquehanna County Library author&#8217;s luncheon for <em>Mighty Queens of Freeville<\/em>. She&#8217;s charming and I enjoyed this one too, but it&#8217;s a little choppy structurally.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Three Body Problem<\/em> &#8211; Cixin Liu, 2007 &#8211; Weird but interesting.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime<\/em> &#8211; Mark Haddon, 2003 \u2013 quotes pulled, review tdb<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/06\/the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer-siddhartha-mukherjee-2010\/\"><em>The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/06\/germinal-emile-zola-1885\/\"><em>Germinal<\/em><\/a> &#8211; <span class=\"st\">\u00c9<\/span>mile Zola, 1885<\/li>\n<li><em>Anne of Green Gables<\/em> &#8211; L.M. Montgomery, 1908 &#8211; re-read for the umpteenth time after watching episode 1 of the &#8220;Anne with an E&#8221; reboot (which is very good).<\/li>\n<li><em>Ask a Manager<\/em> &#8211; Alison Green, 2018 &#8211; I&#8217;m a huge fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askamanager.org\/\">blog<\/a> and this captures its fundamental messages&#8211;concise and useful but not as entertaining, although some AAM classic letters are excerpted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/09\/how-to-be-an-adult-a-handbook-on-psychological-and-spiritual-integration-david-richo-1991\/\"><em>How to be an Adult:\u00a0 A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration<\/em><\/a> &#8211; David Richo, 1991<\/li>\n<li><em>The Best of Jack Vance<\/em> &#8211; Jack Vance, 1976 &#8211; Re-read; I love Vance&#8217;s style, although he&#8217;s maybe fading a little on my palate with time. I used to think &#8220;The Moon Moth&#8221; was one of the most satisfying stories ever; still pretty darn good!<\/li>\n<li><em>10% Happier:\u00a0How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works<\/em> &#8211; Dan Harris, 2014 &#8211; I&#8217;d been meaning to read this for several years and finally got around to it. A little more memoirish than I expected and much more focused on meditation (I think I had it confused with Dan Gilbert type books), but it helped me finally get serious about a meditation practice myself, just in time to make it my &#8220;re-wirement challenge&#8221; for the Yale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/the-science-of-well-being\/\">Science of Well-Being<\/a> class (highly recommend!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacationland &#8211; John Hodgman, 2017 &#8211; Funny, touching, local relevance Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things &#8211; Amy Dickinson, 2017 &#8211; I met Dickinson at a Susquehanna County Library author&#8217;s luncheon for Mighty Queens of Freeville. She&#8217;s charming and I enjoyed this one too, but it&#8217;s a little choppy structurally. The Three Body Problem &#8211; [&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-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}