{"id":386,"date":"2010-08-19T03:21:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T03:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2012-05-29T02:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:23:35","slug":"book-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"book worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proteanme\/4874225781\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4139\/4874225781_2857d4881e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proteanme\/4874225781\/\">reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/proteanme\/\">proteanme<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nDuring my time off, I finally got a chance to tackle reading something more than the New Yorker and the New York review of Books. I finished off 3 books in a week, which felt great and gave me lots to think about. I&#8217;ll list them now and talk about them more later. First up was Alain de Botton&#8217;s &#8220;The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work&#8221; &#8211; a philosophical look at what work means in our lives and to our culture. Funny and smart overall and lots to think about. Second on the list was Daniel Mendolsohn&#8217;s &#8220;The Elusive Embrace.&#8221; This is one of my favorite writers. Part memoir, part cultural essay, he uses the classics as a springboard to to talk about the mysteries of identity and desire. And last but not least, Jhumpa Lahiri&#8217;s pulitzer prize winning &#8220;Interpreter of Maladies.&#8221; I&#8217;m a number of years behind of this one, but it doesn&#8217;t matter. Great writing and memorable stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reading Originally uploaded by proteanme During my time off, I finally got a chance to tackle reading something more than the New Yorker and the New York review of Books. I finished off 3 books in a week, which felt great and gave me lots to think about. I&#8217;ll list them now and talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}