{"id":1152,"date":"2004-07-18T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T21:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/18\/new-on-the-reading-list\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T01:56:21","slug":"new-on-the-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/18\/new-on-the-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"New on the reading list."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I picked up a few more books at the store today, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0743243315\/qid=1090184384\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/002-2303718-8130417?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">Brick Lane<\/a>, by Monica Ali:  I keep seeing this in the store and thinking, &quot;that looks interesting, maybe I&#8217;ll pick it up one of these days,&quot; so I did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0312202318\/qid=1090184416\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/002-2303718-8130417?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">A Home at the End of the World<\/a>, by Michael Cunningham: I hadn&#8217;t actually heard of this before I started hearing about the movie version with Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, and Robin Wright Penn, but I was intrigued enough by the movie&#8217;s press to want to read the book before seeing it.  The only unfortunate thing is that with the movie coming out, they&#8217;ve changed the cover of the book to something from the movie.  So now I&#8217;m stuck walking around giving the impression that I&#8217;m some sort of Colin Farrell junkie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0465001769\/qid=1090184434\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/002-2303718-8130417?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">What Liberal Media?<\/a> by Eric Alterman: One of my favorite pastimes is listening to and reading about the media&#8217;s dissection of itself.  I started reading <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>&#8216;s <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/extra\/index.html\">EXTRA<\/a> in college, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that I&#8217;m the only person who had a continuous subscription to Brill&#8217;s Content <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.writenews.com\/2001\/101901_brill_inside_close.htm\">before it went bankrupt<\/a>.  Not to mention that I actually keep my alarm set for 7 am on Saturday&#8217;s just so I don&#8217;t miss NPR&#8217;s <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/onthemedia\/\">On the Media<\/a>.  So I thought this would be something I&#8217;d enjoy reading, particularly since I always enjoy <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3449870\/\">Altercation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently also struggling to read Ron Chernow&#8217;s <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1594200092\/qid=1090185607\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_1\/002-2303718-8130417\">biography of Alexander Hamilton<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; it&#8217;s fantastic, but the hardcover version of it is just so physically heavy that it&#8217;s become what I like to call &quot;destination reading&quot; &#8211; I only pick it up when I know I&#8217;ve got a few hours to kill in the park or something, but I can&#8217;t be dragging it back and forth to work every day, so it&#8217;s going to take me a while to get through.  Plus, even if I was willing to carry it everywhere, I&#8217;ve been finding that it doesn&#8217;t read as well when I&#8217;m only reading 2-3 pages at a time (the walk to and from the subway actually takes longer than the ride for me) &#8211; I need long stretches of time to fully enjoy the color provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a few more books at the store today, as follows: Brick Lane, by Monica Ali: I keep seeing this in the store and thinking, &quot;that looks interesting, maybe I&#8217;ll pick it up one of these days,&quot; so I did. A Home at the End of the World, by Michael Cunningham: I hadn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-iA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}