{"id":71406,"date":"2013-10-10T13:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=71406"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:00:10","slug":"stuff-ive-been-reading-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=71406","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I’ve Been Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

— I’ve seen this linked all over the place and finally got around to reading it: How the Freaky Octopus Can Help us Understand the Human Brain<\/a>. I certainly don’t want to meet an octopus out in the wild but I am fascinated by them, and find them to be beautiful and interesting creatures. <\/p>\n

— A piece like this is akin to crack for someone like me: Stalin’s Blue Pencil<\/a>. I knew he was an editor. I knew he fancied himself a writer. This piece goes into his editorial decisions, and his political philosophy (what can be discerned of it anyway). <\/p>\n

— A couple of links from my good friend Cara about her correspondence with the late Tom Clancy: RIP Tom Clancy<\/a> and Remembering Tom Clancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— I have been devouring The Case of Comrade Tulayev<\/i> by Victor Serge, and frankly I cannot believe I have not read it before. Considering my fascination with all things 1930s-Soviet-Terror. What a novel. I am not done with it yet, about 40 pages to go. It’s a page-turner but in a truly awful way. Maybe I’ll have more to say about it when I finish it. I have commenter John Vail to thank for alerting me to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— I’ve seen this linked all over the place and finally got around to reading it: How the Freaky Octopus Can Help us Understand the Human Brain. I certainly don’t want to meet an octopus out in the wild but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[2601,2134,2264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71406"}],"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=71406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75113,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71406\/revisions\/75113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}