{"id":170,"date":"2015-02-19T20:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-02-20T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:56:22","slug":"nightstand-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/nightstand-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightstand III"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Another<\/a>
Another stack of books.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David Hackett Fischer. Albion’s seed: four British folkways in America<\/em>. A brilliant work of scholarship. Fascinating, persuasive, informative. I borrowed it from the library, but found it so valuable in both overview and detail that I had to have my own copy.<\/p>\n

Michael Swanwick. Griffin’s egg<\/em>. Haven’t started on this one yet. Part of my program to read all of his books.<\/p>\n

Michael Swanwick. Cigar box Faust and other miniatures<\/em>. I like the term miniature so much better than flash. I’m going to use it from now on.<\/p>\n

John Dickson Carr. The case of the constant suicides<\/em>. Doesn’t everybody love a good clockwork plot?<\/p>\n

John Dickson Carr. Til death do us part<\/em>. See above.<\/p>\n

Dan Cruickshank. The secret history of Georgian London: how the wages of sin shaped the capital<\/em>. That is to say, how sex (or more exactly the sex trade) influenced Georgian culture and in particular architecture.<\/p>\n

Mark Twain. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>. Rereading. “Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!”<\/p>\n

A. Roger Ekirch. At day’s close: night in times past<\/em>. We who live in the present (that is, everybody) assume that the past was in most ways mostly similar to the present. It wasn’t. Not even sleeping was the same.<\/p>\n

Hugh Ross Williamson. Who was the man in the iron mask? and other historical mysteries<\/em>. Little nooks and crannies and oddments, the sort of thing that serious historians prefer to ignore.<\/p>\n

Iain McCalman. The last alchemist: Count Cagliostro, master of magic in the age of reason<\/em>. A charismatic fraud, a type that is ever the same, especially now. Only the names have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Hackett Fischer. Albion’s seed: four British folkways in America. A brilliant work of scholarship. Fascinating, persuasive, informative. I borrowed it from the library, but found it so valuable in both overview and detail that I had to have my own copy. Michael Swanwick. Griffin’s egg. Haven’t started on this one yet. Part of my … Continue reading “Nightstand III”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving-and-writhing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}