{"id":805,"date":"2019-04-30T21:33:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2024-05-26T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:17:39","slug":"april-2019-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/04\/april-2019-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2019 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/04\/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-lionel-shriver-2003\/\"><em>We Need to Talk About Kevin<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Lionel Shriver, 2003.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Aeneid<\/i> &#8211; Virgil, 19 BCE; Robert Fitzgerald translation, 1983. Quotes pulled, post tbd.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Uncommercial Traveller<\/em> &#8211; Charles Dickens, 1869. I read this on my phone over the course of about a year and a half, continuing in my Dickens\/phone tradition. A mish-mosh of essays, which worked well to read in fragments (I&#8217;ve since started <em>Our Mutual Friend<\/em> and I&#8217;ve already forgotten who&#8217;s who!)&#8212;some sentimental, some funny, some perceptive.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future<\/em> &#8211; Ryder Carroll, 2018. I enjoyed it very much and might try the method at some point&#8212;probably not before I retire. It sounds like a lot of work to ramp up but potentially rewarding. Currently I use very small notebooks (no spine) that fit in my purse, just for running notes, and plan\/list separately; I can see the advantage of combining them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/04\/trace-memory-history-race-and-the-american-landscape-lauret-savoy-2015\/\"><i>Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape<\/i><\/a> &#8211; Lauret Savoy, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/04\/the-islandman-tomas-ocrohan-1929-robin-flower-translation-1937\/\"><em>The Islandman<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Tomas O&#8217;Crohan, 1929; Robin Flower translation, 1937.<\/li>\n<li><em>Skippy Dies<\/em> &#8211; Paul Murray, 2010. Quotes pulled, post tbd.<\/li>\n<li><em>Assassin&#8217;s Apprentice<\/em> &#8211; Robin Hobb, 1995. I saw rave reviews and I&#8217;m glad I read it&#8212;will go on to the next in the series eventually. Wonderful dog characters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Need to Talk About Kevin &#8211; Lionel Shriver, 2003. The Aeneid &#8211; Virgil, 19 BCE; Robert Fitzgerald translation, 1983. Quotes pulled, post tbd. The Uncommercial Traveller &#8211; Charles Dickens, 1869. I read this on my phone over the course of about a year and a half, continuing in my Dickens\/phone tradition. A mish-mosh 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-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}