{"id":6298,"date":"2017-11-27T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2017-11-27T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:51:17","slug":"my-october-and-november-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-october-and-november-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"My October and November Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last reading update, I mentioned that I had read the first book in Patrick O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s Aubrey-Maturin series. Since then, apart from reading for my dissertation, that&#8217;s pretty much\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;ve read. I just finished\u00a0<em>The Yellow Admiral<\/em>, which means that I&#8217;ve read 18 of the 21 books (one left unfinished at the author&#8217;s death) in the series. Because I was so engrossed in dissertation research on the one hand and these historical novels on the other, I dramatically cut down on my longform reading in Pocket, so this update will be much shorter than past ones. My biggest recommendation would be to give the O&#8217;Brian novels a try. They&#8217;re engaging, candid, humane, and funny.<\/p>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Books 2-18 of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Aubrey-Maturin series<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Gene Luen Yang&#8217;s graphic novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/americanbornchinese\/geneluenyang\/9780312384487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>American Born Chinese<\/em><\/a>. A quick read, and quite good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Longform Journalism<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Breheny Wallace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/being-empathetic-is-good-but-it-can-hurt-your-health\/2017\/09\/22\/b25b83ca-6cd0-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html\">making helpful distinctions between empathy and compassion<\/a> in the Washington Post.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts writing on Medium about what they call &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@cryptoeconomics\/byzantine-political-economy-de25bf8f047e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">byzantine political economy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sean Illing&#8217;s interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones in Vox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2017\/10\/26\/16533878\/race-education-segregation-nikole-hannah-jones\">about racial segregation (in schools and housing) in America<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Brian Oliver&#8217;s Guardian article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/jul\/29\/veganism-forest-green-rovers-sports-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vegetarianism and veganism in top-level sport<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Todd Gitlin writing for the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/amphtml\/outlook\/conservatives-say-campus-speech-is-under-threat-thats-been-true-for-most-of-history\/2017\/08\/11\/6aa959fa-7c4b-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the history of campus &#8216;free speech.&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A keynote address from John Bogle about <a href=\"http:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JOIM-9-24-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big data and index investing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small>Featured image: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photos_by_clark\/35332790134\/in\/photolist-VQeMwN-7oU666-sa9LQ2-ge5BS1-agJLfC-CtwoKk-kpbGSA-f2dr5r-pLd8MZ-VYf7fv-ABrH9m-8vEXkh-eZpuXh-kxdWHj-XcsHrz-kvWYo2-2ZeJh1-dHiZKu-5DAfAz-UQsbRK-5DkSNY-j536TW-qVHWsM-o221FW-5xuJuw-7EPSTk-kAbcUv-ktbbtr-63dqF4-apKcq5-4MAt4m-e7T7E6-4qJo3e-bsjL2B-s9kHKq-SxHEgT-5Uj36D-7VDGU5-iTjCRx-ehsoxL-a8FdBR-fCV6qt-WZAncP-dg3Wa5-nsX7ph-qZbDqf-och5Tk-VZE7oF-abcLxR-i3ijRk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bollard: San Diego Harbor<\/a>,&#8221; Photos by Clark, CC-BY-NC 2.0<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last reading update, I mentioned that I had read the first book in Patrick O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s Aubrey-Maturin series. Since then, apart from reading for my dissertation, that&#8217;s pretty much\u00a0all\u00a0I&#8217;ve read. I just finished\u00a0The Yellow Admiral, which means that I&#8217;ve read 18 of the 21 books (one left unfinished at the author&#8217;s death) in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"My October and November Reading","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[16,17,18],"class_list":["post-6298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reading","tag-books","tag-literature","tag-reading"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Steel Wagstaff","author_link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/author\/steel\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35332790134_ebb6938e70_k.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd6z5D-1DA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6310,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/2017-my-year-in-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6298,"position":0},"title":"2017: My Year in Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"January 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the first year that I've really made an effort to keep track of my leisure reading. 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I stayed really plugged into my dissertation reading and research, which really cut down my leisure reading, but I still managed to get through several books that struck\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I'm Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/steve-halama-133032.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6188,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-april-2017-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6298,"position":2},"title":"My April 2017 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"May 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Books My leisure reading of books slowed down a bit in April, as I continued getting sucked into lots more longform than I had intended and, on a happier note, did a lot more reading for my dissertation (good news!!!). Here's some of what I read last month for pleasure.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I'm Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Dead moles on a fence in Yorkshire.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2464682583_75238b8f03_b_moles-yorkshire.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6078,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-november-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6298,"position":3},"title":"My November 2016 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"December 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Books My reading pace slowed a bit in November (the US elections and their sad aftermath have provided me with lots of avenues for distraction and worry), but I still managed to keep up my love affair with books, though I picked a fair amount of duds this month. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I'm Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I'm Reading","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/category\/reading\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Books","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/liwf2uhxs0q-annie-spratt.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/liwf2uhxs0q-annie-spratt.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/liwf2uhxs0q-annie-spratt.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/liwf2uhxs0q-annie-spratt.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/liwf2uhxs0q-annie-spratt.jpg?fit=1200%2C704&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4979,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/my-october-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":6298,"position":4},"title":"My October 2016 Reading","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"November 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Books I wrote last month that I was on a big reading kick, and that surge of devouring books has continued in full force this month. 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I read a lot for my dissertation in June 2017. Even better news? Much of it was pleasurable (at least for me)--a lot of \"Objectivist\" poetry, biographical material on Williams and Zukofsky, and histories of late 1920s-early 1930s little magazines. 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