{"id":77,"date":"2003-09-23T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/09\/23\/bookish\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:55","slug":"bookish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/09\/23\/bookish\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKISH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about sharing a room with a handful of other like-minded book fiends that makes me so incredibly happy? I LOVE book group. I didn&#8217;t even read the book, one of 2-3 times I haven&#8217;t done so in 4 years, so I didn&#8217;t feel too guilty, and the conversation was so interesting and went so many interesting places. The book was Beyond Belief by V.S. Naipaul, whom I just haven&#8217;t been able to get into despite 3 tries, but <a href=\"http:\/\/sleepyhouse.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">sleepyhouse<\/a> made an excellent case for one of his earlier books that I&#8217;m going to look up. We had an excellent discussion about Islam as a state and a religion, moving neatly into fundamentalism in America, with a segue into Swedish societal norms, and finished up with personal near-death disaster stories. It was a small group this time, unusually, but I actually thought it was better as there wasn&#8217;t so much interruption and break-out conversations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bad things today:<\/b> A warning lamp came on in the car, which requires a trip to the shop \ud83d\ude41 Expensive in our experience, and when I got home found Anders watching a TV that had a circular shadow of pinks, purples and greens instead of the correct colors, which requires a trip to the TV repairman (both of these things have happened before). MORE expenses, just when we REALLY REALLY don&#8217;t need them. \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n<p>argh<\/p>\n<p><b>Good things today:<\/b> The power was only off for 3 hours and the ice in the freezer didn&#8217;t even have time to melt, (meaning the food is okay). I got out of a meeting at work I was dreading because of the power outage (although I have to have it tomorrow&#8230;<i>scheming how to get the power to go out again&#8230;<\/i>) Book group. <\/p>\n<p>Considering that I am the only person on LJ to have &#8220;sudden bursts of enthusiasm&#8221; listed as an interest, I found this post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/alphabet_soup\/140717.html?view=365485#t365485\">word origins of <i>enthusiasm<\/i><\/a> to be fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about sharing a room with a handful of other like-minded book fiends that makes me so incredibly happy? I LOVE book group. I didn&#8217;t even read the book, one of 2-3 times I haven&#8217;t done so in 4 years, so I didn&#8217;t feel too guilty, and the conversation was so interesting and went so many interesting places. The book was Beyond Belief by V.S. Naipaul, whom I just haven&#8217;t been able to get into despite 3 tries, but sleepyhouse made an excellent case for one of his earlier books that I&#8217;m going to look up. We had&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}