{"id":652,"date":"2006-12-28T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","slug":"book-log-aliens-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Aliens in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Aliens in America<\/i> by Sandra Tsing Loh<\/p>\n<p>I heart Sandra.  I really do.  I get all sorts of excited when she does commentary on <i>Marketplace<\/i> or some other NPR thingy.  She reads her stuff like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meryncadell.com\/angelfood.html\">Meryn Cadell<\/a> (especially <i>The Sweater<\/i>) who I also love and whatever happened to her anyway<sup>1<\/sup>?<\/p>\n<p>And I have enjoyed all of her books,this one being no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Except that&#8230; well&#8230; &#8220;book&#8221; is a strong term.  How about four short essays?  They are funny and well-written, and an enjoyable peek into Sandra&#8217;s upbringing.  But there was oh, so little of it.  I hadn&#8217;t expected to add another book to the 2006 log, but this one is read almost by accident.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.  Every little bit counts.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Well, for one she apparently has a <a href=\"http:\/\/meryncadell.livejournal.com\/profile\">LiveJournal<\/a>, and she is now a he, or in the process of becoming one.  I must reads further!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliens in America by Sandra Tsing Loh I heart Sandra. I really do. I get all sorts of excited when she does commentary on Marketplace or some other NPR thingy. She reads her stuff like Meryn Cadell (especially The Sweater) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=652\">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":[481,513],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}