{"id":988,"date":"2019-11-30T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:09:36","slug":"november-2019-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/11\/november-2019-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2019 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The Parable of the Sower<\/em> &#8211; Octavia Butler, 1993. Re-read, quotes TBD. <\/li><li><em>The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin&#8217;s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World\u2014And Us<\/em> &#8211; Richard Prum, 2017. Quotes pulled, TBD.<\/li><li><em>Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/em> &#8211; Richard Bach, 1970. Re-read for the umpteenth time (it&#8217;s so short!), but my opinion of it drops a little each time. <\/li><li><em>Round the Bend<\/em> &#8211; Nevil Shute, 1951. Umpteenth re-read (yes, I was needing comfort reading) but holds up still.<\/li><li><em>Homage to Catalonia<\/em> &#8211; George Orwell, 1938 &#8211; quotes pulled, TBD<\/li><li><em>Dancing at Lughnasa<\/em> &#8211; Brian Friel, 1990 &#8211; For Irish Writers book group. Only one quote so not enough for a separate post: Gerry, who&#8217;s signed up to go fight in the Spanish Civil War (coincidental, having just read <em>Homage to Catalonia<\/em>), is asked why he&#8217;s going.<blockquote>Not so sure I know either. &#8230; And there&#8217;s bound to be <em>something<\/em> right about the cause, isn&#8217;t there? And it&#8217;s somewhere to go&#8212;isn&#8217;t it? Maybe that&#8217;s the important thing for a man: a <em>named<\/em> destination&#8212;democracy, Ballybeg, heaven. Women&#8217;s illusions aren&#8217;t so easily satisfied&#8212;they make better drifters.<\/blockquote><\/li><li><em>The Countess Cathleen<\/em> &#8211; W.B. Yeats, 1912 &#8211; also for Irish Writers, quotes pulled TB.<\/li><li><em>Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind <\/em>&#8211; Jocelyn K. Glei, 2013 (99U series) &#8211; This was really good! Short chapters with nice graphic design.<\/li><li><em>The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight<\/em> &#8211; Satchin Panda, 2018 &#8211; It seemed really good, but mostly because I already do time-restricted eating (Panda&#8217;s major recommendation) and it&#8217;s worked <em>really<\/em> well for me. So I was nodding along &amp; patting myself on the back, which is not the most objective frame of mind. In general I&#8217;m super-suspicious of &#8220;this is The One Answer!&#8221; books, but clearly less so when it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve already adopted&#8230;<\/li><li><em>My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag&#8230; and Other Things You Can&#8217;t Ask Martha<\/em> &#8211; Jolie Kerr, 2014 &#8211; I read the whole thing but I&#8217;m not 100% sure why. I may have learned a few things but I mostly forgot them again (OK, I do want to try using ammonia) and the jokey tone was fun in small doses, annoying in large. I guess I kept expecting <a href=\"https:\/\/captainawkward.com\/\">Captain Awkward<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askamanager.org\/\">Ask A Manager<\/a> level advice\/entertainment, but that bar is unreasonably high.<\/li><li><em>Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life<\/em> &#8211; Neil Steinberg, 2008 &#8211; Ah, I thought maybe I had read this already &#8211; yes, back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2010\/04\/drunkard-a-hard-drinking-life-neil-steinberg-2009\/\">2010<\/a>. Why did I put pub year of 2009 &#8211; maybe it was the paperback?<\/li><li>Started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2019\/12\/the-chronicles-of-narnia-c-s-lewis-1950-1956\/\"><em>Chronicles of Narnia<\/em><\/a>  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parable of the Sower &#8211; Octavia Butler, 1993. Re-read, quotes TBD. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin&#8217;s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World\u2014And Us &#8211; Richard Prum, 2017. Quotes pulled, TBD. Jonathan Livingston Seagull &#8211; Richard Bach, 1970. Re-read for the umpteenth time (it&#8217;s so short!), but my opinion of it [&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-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}