{"id":2358,"date":"2012-06-01T19:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2012-06-02T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:53:51","slug":"the-beach-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"The Beach Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re off in just 3 weeks for the biennial Gordon family (my in-laws) vacation at Topsail Island, North Carolina.  Topsail is a beautiful place, wonderfully underdeveloped with little more than houses along the beach.<\/p>\n<p>It is the perfect place to park yourself on the beach under an umbrella and read.  I&#8217;m assembling my reading list and will soon be inundating the best library in the country (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpl.lib.in.us\" target=\"_blank\">Allen County Public Library<\/a>) with my requests.<\/p>\n<p>The list in no particular order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Off Main Street. Michael Perry<\/li>\n<li>White House Burning. Simon Johnson and James Kwak<\/li>\n<li>13 Bankers. Also Simon Johnson and James Kwak (A Josh Zumbrun selection)<\/li>\n<li>The Happiness Project. Gretchen Rubin (Another Josh Zumbrun selection.  Seems a little weird to me.)<\/li>\n<li>The Road. Cormac McCarthy.  (Another Josh Zumbrun selection) <\/li>\n<li>Catching Fire. Suzanne Collins. (A long hold list at ACPL, may not be able to get this one.)<\/li>\n<li>Arrowhawk.  Lola Schaefer. (Yes, I know this is a children&#8217;s book.  Lola is my cousin and I&#8217;ve never read any of her books.)<\/li>\n<li>Fidelity: Five Stories. Wendell Berry. (And maybe some other Berry books as well.)<\/li>\n<li>Bad religion: how we became a nation of heretics. Ross Douthat (I&#8217;m not too sure about this one.)<\/li>\n<li>Le Ton beau de Marot. Douglas Hofstadter.  (Been reading this for years, maybe I&#8217;ll finally finish it.)\n<li>Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession. Julie Powell. (A Missy Gordon selection)<\/li>\n<li>In the Garden of Beasts. Erik Larson.<\/li>\n<li>A Walk in the Woods. Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is that enough for a week?  I think so, I may even need to prioritize this list in case I don&#8217;t get through them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re off in just 3 weeks for the biennial Gordon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skunk-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}