{"id":2413,"date":"2016-01-27T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2016-01-30T19:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:46:21","slug":"book-log-5-colors-insulting-to-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2413","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #5 &#8211; Colors Insulting to Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Colors Insulting to Nature<\/em> by Cintra Wilson [<em>Kindle, Amazon<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>This book was recommended a long time back by my son&#8217;s 3rd grade teacher, it sat on my Amazon Wish List for a couple years until I took the plunge.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rollicking coming-of-age tale of dysfunction in a young girl&#8217;s family, growing up in California with a desire for Fame.  It has hints of the flavor of <em>A Confederacy of Dunces<\/em>, filled with eccentric characters and odd life choices.  I enjoyed the story even if the characters were only marginally relatable to me.  <\/p>\n<p>The writing was engaging, though, and this was odd, there were an unusual number of typ-os in the Kindle version.  Not misspellings, but random character errors that any spellchecker would have flagged.  (e.g., &#8220;tbe&#8221; instead of &#8220;the&#8221;).  Was this an amateurishly produced book, or was there corruption in the digital copy?  I&#8217;ve never run across that before.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I recommend the book if you&#8217;re into&#8230; I dunno.  <em>Dunces<\/em>, maybe. It sort of reminds me of <em>The Good People of New York<\/em> by Thisbe Nissen a bit.  <em>Maybe the Moon<\/em>?  Bits and pieces of those, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colors Insulting to Nature by Cintra Wilson [Kindle, Amazon] This book was recommended a long time back by my son&#8217;s 3rd grade teacher, it sat on my Amazon Wish List for a couple years until I took the plunge. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512,481,513,510],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-book-log","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}