{"id":6949,"date":"2017-01-01T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=6949"},"modified":"2018-01-01T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T04:19:13","slug":"2017-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=6949","title":{"rendered":"2017 Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Books I finished in 2017:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Year of the Rat Trilogy<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Ridley McIntyre<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Pavilion of Women<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Pearl S. Buck<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dr. Mutter&#8217;s Marvels<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Cristin O&#8217;Keefe Aptowicz<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sons<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Pearl S. Buck<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>A High Wind in Jamaica<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Richard Hughes<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The True Believer<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Eric Hoffer<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Denis Avey<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>A House Divided<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Pearl S. Buck<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cleaning Up New York<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Bob Rosenthal<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Commonwealth<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Ann Patchett<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Here is New York<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; E. B. White<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Underworld<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Don DeLillo<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Rediscovering Americanism and the Tyranny of Progressivism<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Mark R. Levin<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Christianity in a Revolutionary Age &#8211; Vol. 1: The 19th Century in Europe (Background and the Roman Catholic Phase)<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Kenneth Scott Latourette<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Gravedigger&#8217;s Daughter<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Joyce Carol Oates<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Beautiful and Damned<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Gilbert&#8217;s Living with Art<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Mark Getlein<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>With Shuddering Fall<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Joyce Carol Oates<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Prodigal<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Derek Walcott<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>My Life as a Man<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Philip Roth<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Leviathan<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Paul Auster<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Christianity in a Revolutionary Age &#8211; Vol. 2: The 19th Century in Europe (The Protestant and Eastern Churches)<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Kenneth Scott Latourette<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Disgrace<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; J. M. Coetzee<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Deep Work<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Cal Newport<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Omeros<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Derek Walcott<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Color<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Victoria Finlay<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sunflower<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Gylua Krudy<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dave Ramsey&#8217;s Complete Guide to Money<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Dave Ramsey<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>A River in Darkness:  One Man&#8217;s Escape from North Korea<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Masaji Ishikawa<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mary Heilmann:  Looking at Pictures<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Lydia Yee<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books I finished in 2017: The Year of the Rat Trilogy &#8211; Ridley McIntyre Pavilion of Women &#8211; Pearl S. Buck Dr. Mutter&#8217;s Marvels &#8211; Cristin O&#8217;Keefe Aptowicz Sons &#8211; Pearl S. Buck A High Wind in Jamaica &#8211; Richard Hughes The True Believer &#8211; Eric Hoffer The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz &#8211; Denis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=6949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2017 Reading List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6949","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8424,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6949\/revisions\/8424"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}