{"id":794,"date":"2019-03-31T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:54:50","slug":"march-2019-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/03\/march-2019-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2019 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love<\/em> &#8211; Dani Shapiro, 2019. I read it because Gretchen Rubin picked it for a <a href=\"https:\/\/gretchenrubin.com\/2019\/01\/happier-podcast-book-club1\">podcast book group<\/a> &#8211; but I haven&#8217;t yet listened to the podcast episode! A completely compelling book on a topic that has personal interest to me. And wow, she keeps mentioning how people insist she doesn&#8217;t look Jewish, but since there are no photos I had no idea how much so until I looked her up after reading.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America&#8217;s Favorite Guilty Pleasure<\/em> &#8211; Amy Kaufman, 2018. I have a soft spot for reality TV and have watched a couple of episodes of Bachelor\/Bachelorette, but reading about it is actually more up my alley. This was good-not-great.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i>Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England<\/i> &#8211; Tom Wessels, 1997. <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature and Environment<\/a> selection. I wasn&#8217;t able to make it to the group meeting and read it quickly, so no quotes pulled, but I very much enjoyed it. Tom Wessels is a legend around here&#8212;I haven&#8217;t been able to attend one of his talks or walks yet because they fill up so quickly! This is a useful and interesting primer on recognizing evidence of what&#8217;s happened in a section of forest, from fire to clear-cutting, long after the events.  The illustrations throughout the chapters help identify specifics but I wish at least some had been in color. Makes me want to go back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Forest<\/a>, which is not that far from us (Petersham) and has a teaching trail showing some of these features.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money (with a Little Help from My Dad)<\/em> &#8211; Danielle Town, 2018. A potentially mildly-good book ruined by howlers at the beginning that could really hurt financially naive people. I may write up more details at some point.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/07\/the-sea-the-sea-iris-murdoch-1970\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"885\">The Sea, the Sea<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Iris Murdoch, 1970.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>La Belle Sauvage<\/em> &#8211; Philip Pullman, 2017. I so loved revisiting Lyra&#8217;s world, and Malcolm is a great character&#8212;this book doesn&#8217;t really stand on its own without <em>His Dark Materials<\/em>, but I&#8217;m eager to read the rest of the trilogy when it comes out and then re-read HDM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Sharp Objects<\/em> &#8211; Gilliam Flynn, 2006. I really enjoyed <em>Gone Girl<\/em>, but this&#8230; UGH! I finished it because I wanted to know what happened, but I kind of wish I hadn&#8217;t. Gratuitously disturbing but also entirely preposterous, which is sort of a saving grace I suppose. Oh, and unlike GG the &#8220;twist&#8221; ending was pretty obvious.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/03\/death-in-venice-thomas-mann-1924\/\">Death in Venice<\/a><\/i> &#8211; Thomas Mann, 1924. Great Books selection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}