{"id":2844,"date":"2022-05-17T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/17\/bookishness\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T18:06:52","slug":"bookishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/17\/bookishness\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKISHNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this list for a while, before we went to Rome, in fact, but I was waiting until I had finished writing about our vacation after our return. We had a bumper crop of recommendations for next year&#8217;s book group books: FORTY-SIX books to choose from. GAH. I actually hope that the organizer will cut the max to 3 per person in the future, because having to wade through a list that long is hard! And, of course, it narrows the chances of any of MY recommendations being chosen&#8230;which is what happened this year. Five excellent recommendations from me, and not one made the cut. Curses. Ah well, it won&#8217;t stop me from reading them. <\/p>\n<p>I was pleased that none of the books I really DIDN&#8217;T want&#8230;except one, and I&#8217;ll let you guess which, made the list. And glad that 3 of the books I DID vote for were chosen, AND glad that the 3 I had already read didn&#8217;t make the cut, even though one of them is an excellent book that I think everyone should read and that I would read again (<i>Henrietta Lacks<\/i>). Once again, a lot of heavy subjects and non-fiction on the list! We are a serious bunch, but I&#8217;m glad that plenty of fiction was voted in as well, because last year&#8217;s books were quite heavy. We actually had to do a second round of voting because a pile of books all got 3 votes each.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list, in case you are interested or looking for something to read:<\/p>\n<p>Key: <font color=\"#0000ff\"><b>blue=recommended\/voted for by me<\/b><\/font>, <b><font color=\"#008000\">green=voted for by me<\/font><\/b>, <b><font color=\"#808000\">yellow=already read<\/font><\/b>. The ones with a star in front won.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ol>\n<li>The Club by Ellery Lloyd<\/li>\n<li>*The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont<\/li>\n<li>Apples Never Fall by\u00a0Liane Moriarty<\/li>\n<li>This Is My America by\u00a0Kim Johnson<\/li>\n<li>An American Marriage by Tayari Jones<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#0000ff\"><b>The Last Winter by Porter Fox<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#0000ff\"><b>The Plot: a Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#0000ff\"><b>Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#0000ff\"><b>H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#0000ff\"><b>The Echo Chamber by John Boyne<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li>No one is talking about this by Patricia Lockwood<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#008000\"><b>*The President and the Freedom Fighter by Brian Kilmeade<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li>The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma by Michael Pollan<\/li>\n<li>The Plot against America by Philip Roth<\/li>\n<li>*Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters<\/li>\n<li>In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"008000\"><b>This Is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li>She Would be King by Wayetu Moore<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#008000\"><b>Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li>Inland by T\u00e9a Obreht<\/li>\n<li>Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#008000\"><b>*America the Anxious:\u00a0 How our Pursuit of Happiness is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks by Ruth Whippman<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li>Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead<\/li>\n<li>The Book of Joy;\u00a0 Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Cartton\u00a0Abrams<\/li>\n<li>The Sellout by Paul Beatty<\/li>\n<li>The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout<\/li>\n<li>The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage<\/li>\n<li>Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo<\/li>\n<li>They will Drown in their Mother\u2019s Tears by Johannes Anyuru<\/li>\n<li>Queen of Wishful Thinking by Milly Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Season\u00a0by Fernanda Melchor<\/li>\n<li>*Family Lexicon\u00a0by Natalia Ginzburg<\/li>\n<li>*Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan<\/li>\n<li>The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chen<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang<\/li>\n<li>*Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz<\/li>\n<li>The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak<\/li>\n<li>The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki<\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#808000\"><b>The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#808000\"><b>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#008000\"><b>*Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#808000\"><b>The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson<\/b><\/font><\/li>\n<li>The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson<\/li>\n<li>How The Word Is Passed by Clint Smith<\/li>\n<li>The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones<\/li>\n<li>*12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity&#39;s Most Influential Faiths by Jason Boyett<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How am I ever going to find time to read all the books on MY list, let alone this one??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this list for a while, before we went to Rome, in fact, but I was waiting until I had finished writing about our vacation after our return. We had a bumper crop of recommendations for next year&#8217;s book group books: FORTY-SIX books to choose from. GAH. I actually hope that the organizer will cut the max to 3 per person in the future, because having to wade through a list that long is hard! And, of course, it narrows the chances of any of MY recommendations being chosen&#8230;which is what happened this year. Five excellent recommendations from me,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,14],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bibliophilia","tag-goodthings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}