{"id":2618,"date":"2005-03-12T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2015-05-17T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:26:31","slug":"what-im-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(generated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2617\">this post below<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>In terms of what I just finished reading, in the last two days:<\/p>\n<p>Elias Canetti&#8217;s extraordinary work <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374518203\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0374518203&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=2SJOSLVOL5JRJQLK\">Crowds and Power<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0374518203\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>.  I&#8217;ll post some more excerpts even though no one seems to give a shite.  Ha.  Incredible book -dissecting the dynamics of power structures and crowd structures, and how they work.  I finished it yesterday and thought: &#8220;And that&#8217;s how you<a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/literature\/laureates\/1981\/index.html\"> win the Nobel Prize<\/a>, folks.  You write a book like THIS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0374518203&#038;asins=0374518203&#038;linkId=5QXB5GXDRIIW2Y2P&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393327329\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0393327329&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=H4UKQUUP2H63J55E\">Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0393327329\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, by Andrew Meier this morning.  It&#8217;s a short book &#8211; 131 pages long.  Hmm.  Mr. Meier seems to think that getting &#8220;to the heart of&#8221; this conflict (which basically has gone on, in different forms, for <i>centuries<\/i>) will only take 131 pages and will consist mainly of telling about how HE PERSONALLY risked his life to go into Chechnya.  Oh, so now we really know how dangerous it is there, because Mr. Meier feared for his life.  Whatever.  There are way better books about the Caucausus and the Russian\/Chechen conflict and the Ossetians and the Ingush (I have many of them on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2596\">the top 3 shelves of Bookshelf # 6<\/a>) &#8230; Meier&#8217;s book was a piece of fluff &#8211; it&#8217;s more travelogue than anything else, and there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that &#8211; I guess my beef is with the title.  Meier got to the heart of nothin&#8217;.  <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0393327329&#038;asins=0393327329&#038;linkId=YI254FVPZ4VMKGFV&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Books I am now in the process of reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/068482535X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=068482535X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=HTH47F5FQZHGB5DM\">Lincoln<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=068482535X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> &#8211; by David Herbert Donald.  To those of you who recommended it to me, all I can say is: &#8220;thank you!!&#8221;  I&#8217;m only in the second chapter of it, but I love it.  I can see why it is so revered as a biography.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=068482535X&#038;asins=068482535X&#038;linkId=M2ACEBQC22M2AD4N&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140184325\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0140184325&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=GTEOFNQNYR5W6P6X\">The Aran Islands (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0140184325\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, by JM Synge.  This is one of my favorite books.  I pick it up from time to time.  I&#8217;m re-reading it now, and loving it.  From the first sentence (which I know by heart): &#8220;I am in Aranmor, sitting over a turf fire, listening to a murmur of Gaelic rising from a little public-house under my room&#8221; you are transported into another world.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0140184325&#038;asins=0140184325&#038;linkId=YBOXKLSDRUUNRBQV&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd that&#8217;s it for now.  I need to read a good sweeping novel next.  Too much reality is not good.  At least not for me.  I&#8217;m nothing if I don&#8217;t have escape-hatches available to me at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(generated by this post below): In terms of what I just finished reading, in the last two days: Elias Canetti&#8217;s extraordinary work Crowds and Power. I&#8217;ll post some more excerpts even though no one seems to give a shite. Ha. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[2010,1493,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102111,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/102111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}