{"id":724,"date":"2018-10-31T01:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T05:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2024-05-26T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:29:52","slug":"october-2018-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/10\/october-2018-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2018 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>The Enchanted April<\/em> &#8211; Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922 &#8211; Re-read, always a favorite. Jonathan originally brought me this from a book give-away in around 1990, a copy where the title page simply attributed it to &#8220;by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden,&#8221; which I&#8217;d never heard of either. I didn&#8217;t expect much of it but fell in love with it, and when the movie came out just a year later I was chuffed that I wasn&#8217;t the only one.<\/li>\n<li><em>At the Mountains of Madness<\/em> (1936) and &#8220;The Color Out of Space&#8221; (1927) &#8211; HP Lovecraft, re-read after seeing the new original musical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/about-smith\/performing-arts\/news\/moonlight-miskatonic\"><em>Moonlight on the Miskatonic<\/em><\/a> at Smith, which was pretty great!<\/li>\n<li><em>Le Domaine des Dieux<\/em> &#8211; Ren\u00e9 Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, 1971 &#8211; #17 in the Ast\u00e9rix books and one of my favorites. Re-read of course!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/10\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-bill-bryson-2003-reread\/\"><em>A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Bill Bryson, 2003<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/10\/dubliners-an-illustrated-edition-with-annotations-james-joyce-ed-john-wyse-jackson-1995\/\"><em>Dubliners: An Illustrated Edition with Annotations<\/em><\/a> &#8211; James Joyce, ed. John Wyse Jackson, 1995.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Good Man is Hard to Find<\/em> &#8211; Flannery O&#8217;Connor, 1953 \u2013 quotes pulled, review tdb<\/li>\n<li><em>The Door Into Summer<\/em> &#8211; Robert Heinlein, 1957 &#8211; a favorite Heinlein re-read. Lots of comfort reading this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to add the occasional memorable article, especially if there&#8217;s a quote I want to remember.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Atlantic<\/em>, November 2018 &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/11\/alexa-how-will-you-change-us\/570844\/\">Alexa, How Will You Change Us?<\/a> by Judith Shulevitz: &#8220;If I have learned anything in my years of therapy, it is that the human psyche defaults to shallowness. We cling to our denials. It\u2019s easier to pretend that deeper feelings don\u2019t exist, because, of course, a lot of them are painful. What better way to avoid all that unpleasantness than to keep company with emotive entities unencumbered by actual emotions? But feelings don\u2019t just go away like that. They have a way of making themselves known.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enchanted April &#8211; Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922 &#8211; Re-read, always a favorite. Jonathan originally brought me this from a book give-away in around 1990, a copy where the title page simply attributed it to &#8220;by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden,&#8221; which I&#8217;d never heard of either. I didn&#8217;t expect much of [&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-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}