{"id":18410,"date":"2020-01-27T22:53:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2020-02-04T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:24:41","slug":"januarys-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18410","title":{"rendered":"January&#8217;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18412\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200127_173669.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18412\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200127_173669-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"January&#039;s Books\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200127_173669-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200127_173669-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200127_173669-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200127_173669-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200127_173669.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">January&#8217;s Books<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy with my reading list lately, getting through some books that I&#8217;ve been meaning to read for a while now. I started reading <em>Anna Karenin<\/em>, by Leo Tolstoy, just before Christmas and finished it in early January. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although some of the characters were more likeable than others. After that I tackled <em>The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation<\/em>, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It isn&#8217;t an easy book to read but I think it&#8217;s an important book, all the more so as we have politicians who clearly admire the Soviet Union at or near the top of a presidential race. This is only the first of three volumes and I have put off volume two for a little while, but it&#8217;s waiting for me when I can handle it. I took a little break by reading <em>Brideshead Revisited<\/em>, by Evelyn Waugh, which is an enjoyable book and justly popular. I&#8217;m currently working my way into Herman Melville&#8217;s <em>Moby Dick<\/em>, which looks to be a bit harder and will certainly take me into February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy with my reading list lately, getting through some books that I&#8217;ve been meaning to read for a while now. I started reading Anna Karenin, by Leo Tolstoy, just before Christmas and finished it in early January. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although some of the characters were more likeable than others. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[461,2227,2226,2225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18415,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions\/18415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}