{"id":869,"date":"2019-07-31T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2024-10-14T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:41:08","slug":"july-2019-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/07\/july-2019-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2019 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/07\/the-welsh-girl-peter-ho-davies-2007\/\">The Welsh Girl<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Peter Ho Davies, 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/07\/the-forest-unseen-a-years-watch-in-nature-david-george-haskell-2012\/\"><i>The Forest Unseen: A Year\u2019s Watch in Nature<\/i><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 David George Haskell, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter &amp; Organize to Make Room for Happiness<\/em> &#8211; Gretchen Rubin, 2019 &#8211; Not much content, but it was pretty good I guess? A little cotton-candy-ish: enjoyable going down but barely remembered afterwards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Famine Plot: England&#8217;s Role in Ireland&#8217;s Greatest Tragedy<\/em> &#8211; Tim Pat Coogan, 2012 &#8211; quotes pulled, post tbd<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Wanderers<\/em> &#8211; Chuck Wending, 2019 &#8211; I&#8217;ve followed Wendig on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckWendig\">Twitter<\/a> for a while, to get his nutso morning encouragements (like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lin_Manuel\">Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a> but 5x), so I saw a lot of promotion of this as a doorstop masterpiece, like <em>The Stand,<\/em> etc. And yeah, it was good and kept me engrossed! I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d re-read when there&#8217;s so much else out there, but enjoyable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/07\/o-pioneers-willa-cather-1913\/\">O, Pioneers!<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Willa Cather, 1913.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4282,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}