{"id":2895,"date":"2021-09-20T02:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:55:45","slug":"book-logs-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"Book Logs 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s gotten away from me again.  It&#8217;s been a year since I&#8217;ve logged what books I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a reason I do this.  I was looking at the log from last year, and noted that I had read the <em>Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/em>.  I had no memory of having read this book.  I&#8217;ve been noticing it on my bookshelf for months now, going&#8230; man, I should read that one.  BUT I HAVE.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I&#8217;ll try to piece together the past in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Invisible Life of Addie Larue<\/em> by V.E. Schwab<br \/>\nThis is a freaking great book.  A co-worker recommended it.  After I read it, I gushed and thanked her for recommending it, and another coworker asked what book we were talking about.  We told him about it, and a couple weeks later, *he&#8217;s* gushing about it to us.  I was telling that story to another friend, and they got it and read it, and gushed about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great book.  Now you know.<\/p>\n<p><em>365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy<\/em> by Charla Muller with Betsy Thorpe<br \/>\nNon-fiction memoir of a woman who decided to give her husband the gift of sex every day for a year.  No, it&#8217;s not graphic or even a little bit tittilating&#8211; these are very religious people&#8211; it&#8217;s a book with some interesting insights into couplehood.<\/p>\n<p><em>Educated<\/em> by Tara Westover<br \/>\nFASCINATING autobiography of a woman raised by extremist Mormons, and her rise from not-schooled childhood to PhD.  Riveting story.<\/p>\n<p>In process:<br \/>\n<em>The Madwoman Upstairs<\/em> by Catherine Lowell<br \/>\n<em>She Memes Well<\/em> by Quinta Brunson<br \/>\n<em>Law 101<\/em> by Jay M. Feinman<br \/>\n<em>The House in the Cerulean Sea<\/em> by TJ Klune<br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;ll Never Believe What HAppened to Lacey<\/em> by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar<\/p>\n<p>On the metaphorical bedside table:<br \/>\n<em>The Madwoman and the Roomba<\/em> by Sandra Tsing Loh<br \/>\n<em>The Five Dysfunctions of a Team<\/em> by Patrick Lencioni<br \/>\n<em>The World is Flat<\/em> by Thomas L. Friedman<br \/>\n<em>Queenie<\/em> by Candice Carty-Williams<br \/>\n<em>Black Sun<\/em> by Rebecca Roanhorse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s gotten away from me again. It&#8217;s been a year since I&#8217;ve logged what books I&#8217;ve read. And there&#8217;s a reason I do this. I was looking at the log from last year, and noted that I had read the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[521],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}