{"id":912,"date":"2019-08-31T21:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T01:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:57:04","slug":"august-2019-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/08\/august-2019-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2019 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Fall, or Dodge in Hell<\/em> &#8211; Neal Stephenson, 2019. I love most Stephenson, but this was a snore. The VR Paradise Lost is an interesting idea but dragged out way way too long, and the elevated diction was clumsy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/08\/the-liars-club-a-memoir-mary-karr-1995\/\">The Liar&#8217;s Club<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Mary Karr, 1995.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/08\/the-big-thirst-the-secret-life-and-turbulent-future-of-water-charles-fishman-2011\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"931\">The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Charles Fishman, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/08\/the-grapes-of-wrath-john-steinbeck-1939\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"920\">The Grapes of Wrath<\/a><\/em> &#8211; John Steinbeck, 1939<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha <\/em> &#8211; Roddy Doyle, 1993. Irish Writers book group selection. Most of us got kind of tired of the 10-year old&#8217;s voice and found it a slog, but we had a great discussion. We wondered why it won the Booker! It re-pointed me to Oliver Goldsmith&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/44292\/the-deserted-village\">The Deserted Village<\/a>&#8220;: &#8221; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew \/ That one small head could carry all he knew,&#8221; and I looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/cleeves.net\/iced-caramels\/\">Clarnico Iced Caramels<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying<\/em> &#8211; Sallie Tisdale, 2018. Wonderful and yes, very practical, if you&#8217;re ready to think about such things. A great companion to <em>Being Mortal<\/em> (Atul Gawande, 2014).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over<\/em> &#8211; Nell Irvin Painter, 2018. Enthralling and thought-provoking. I identified in many ways, as I&#8217;m slowly working my way towards a second bachelor&#8217;s in CS.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/08\/estranged-ethan-m-aldridge-2018\/\"><em>Estranged<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Ethan M. Aldridge, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wow, no re-reads this month! Pretty unusual for me&#8212;but that&#8217;s one of the advantages of belonging to so many book groups, keeping me focused on new stuff (or purposeful re-reads, not just comfort reading). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, no re-reads this month! Pretty unusual for me&#8212;but that&#8217;s one of the advantages of belonging to so many book groups, keeping me focused on new stuff (or purposeful re-reads, not just comfort reading).<\/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-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}