{"id":71669,"date":"2013-10-22T06:41:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T10:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=71669"},"modified":"2013-10-22T06:43:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T10:43:58","slug":"stuff-ive-been-reading-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=71669","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I’ve Been Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

— I read Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival<\/a>\"\"<\/i> in one utterly horrified sitting. I was afraid to put it down because my terror was so great I thought I wouldn’t be able to pick it up again. His description of the crevasse – first seen as he dangled above it, and then experienced from within it – is the stuff of nightmares. I had seen the film and found it overwhelming, one of the best survival stories I’ve ever seen. My cousin Kerry sang the praises of the book so I bought a copy. It’s tremendous. Up there with Endurance<\/a>\"\"<\/i>.<\/p>\n

— I’m finally reading The Richard Burton Diaries<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, which are just as amazing as everyone has said. Yes, it’s great to have the glimpses of famous people and his relationship with Taylor. She’s extremely amusing and sweet. But I love even more the philosophical entries, the entries when he discusses literature, poetry, the books he’s reading. He rarely discusses films. He was a voracious (and fast!) reader. The alcoholism is acute, and he is highly aware of it. He talks about it in nearly every entry. It’s extremely disturbing. But what a mind he had. What a curious and open and also cantankerous mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— I read Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival in one utterly horrified sitting. I was afraid to put it down because my terror was so great I thought I wouldn’t be able … 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":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669"}],"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=71669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71674,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions\/71674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}