{"id":20245,"date":"2021-05-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2021-05-30T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:30:36","slug":"reading-report-end-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20245","title":{"rendered":"Reading Report: End of May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li><em>The Wizard&#8217;s Daughter<\/em> by Barbara Michaels, 109\/325: I am enjoying this book about a young woman, left penniless upon the death of her father, who is unexpectedly swept up into a lifestyle of luxury and spiritualism. It&#8217;s far-fetched but in a fun way, and I hope Michaels will keep up the charm.<\/li><li><em>The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms<\/em> by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland: This book replaced <em>The Wasteland<\/em>, which I just wasn&#8217;t able to get into. It&#8217;s textbook-y, but also full of great poems. I&#8217;ve been nibbling away at it, poem by poem.<\/li><li><em>The Grace of Great Things<\/em> by Robert Grudin, 70\/243: This book is a bit of a struggle. I sometimes do not see how Grudin gets from point A to point C. Am I missing something, or does he keep skipping over point B? I&#8217;m not sure. In order to be sure I would have to finish the book, reread parts of it, and then write about it in order to think my way through it. Who has time for that? So, I might give up on this book instead.<\/li><li>I haven&#8217;t made much progress on <em>An Appetite for Violets<\/em> by Martine Bailey, but I still intend to finish it. Ditto <em>The Unfinished World<\/em> by Amber Sparks, <em>Overture<\/em> by Yael Goldstein, and <em>On the Bus with Rosa Parks<\/em> by Rita Dove.<\/li><li>I have continued to buy books (naughty, naughty), but I&#8217;ve also convinced myself that it&#8217;s time to start frequenting the library again. There&#8217;s a slew of landscaping and gardening books that I&#8217;d like to take a look at. My plan is to drop off some book donations at the library this week, and while I&#8217;m there, update my library card, take out the books that are available at my branch, then request the remainder through the inter-library loan system.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wizard&#8217;s Daughter by Barbara Michaels, 109\/325: I am enjoying this book about a young woman, left penniless upon the death of her father, who is unexpectedly swept up into a lifestyle of luxury and spiritualism. It&#8217;s far-fetched but in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20245\">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":[],"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20250,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions\/20250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}