{"id":973,"date":"2019-10-31T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:09:28","slug":"october-2019-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/10\/october-2019-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2019 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> &#8211; Rebecca Skloot, 2010 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/10\/the-changeling-king-estranged-2-ethan-m-aldridge-2019\/\">The Changeling King (Estranged #2) <\/a><\/em>&#8211; Ethan M. Aldridge, 2019<\/li><li><em>The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life<\/em> &#8211; Robert Fritz, 1989   &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD <\/li><li><em>Cat&#8217;s Eye<\/em> &#8211; Margaret Atwood, 1998  &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD <\/li><li> <em>A History of Loneliness<\/em>, 2014 &#8211; John Boyne   &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD <\/li><li><em>Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) <\/em>&#8211; Bill Griffin, 2015. Not bad&#8230; Griffin&#8217;s a little too into himself, but clearly explains why it&#8217;s all about exercise and purpose (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ikigai\">ikigai<\/a><\/em> is my biggest takeaway).<\/li><li><em>The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everythin<\/em>g &#8211; Neil Pasricha, 2015. Wait, he talks about<em> ikigai<\/em> as well&#8230; now I&#8217;m not sure which book I&#8217;m remembering it from. This was also not bad but evaporates from my memory like many self-help books. I did like very much that the main messages from each chapter are added to each time, so that the first ones get repeated &#8211; that really helps anchor them together. The full set  is: be happy first; do it for you; remember the lottery; never retire; overvalue you; create space; just do it; be you; and don&#8217;t take advice, which is a great way to end a self-help book! But seriously, that list refreshes my memory enough to call this one above average.<\/li><li><em>Double Star<\/em> &#8211; Robert Heinlein, 1956 &#8211; One of my favorite Heinleins, a taste I share with <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.loa.org\/appreciation\/willis.php\">Connie Willis<\/a>! I re-read it this time because of remembering &#8220;politics is the only sport for grownups.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks &#8211; Rebecca Skloot, 2010 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD The Changeling King (Estranged #2) &#8211; Ethan M. Aldridge, 2019 The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life &#8211; Robert Fritz, 1989 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD Cat&#8217;s Eye &#8211; Margaret Atwood, 1998 &#8211; quotes [&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-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}