{"id":1718,"date":"2013-05-01T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:53:02","slug":"pleasurable-reads-not-too-heavy-not-too-light-just-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2013\/05\/01\/pleasurable-reads-not-too-heavy-not-too-light-just-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasurable Reads: Not Too Heavy, Not Too Light; Just Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former students are always asking me for reading suggestions to continue their lifelong learning. This list is random, composed primarily of fiction and essays. I will periodically add new lists in case you run out of things to read. I will follow up this reading list with a list of films not to be missed&#8211;however, be ready to read subtitles!<\/p>\n<p><em>On Kindness<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Twenty Years at Hull House<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Invisible Man<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Man\u2019s Search for Meaning<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tell Me a Riddle<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why Societies Need Dissent<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Learning to Drive<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A Pen Warmed in Hell<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Grapes of Wrath<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Notes of a Native Son<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Plainsong<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Road<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Liquid Modernity<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Go Down Moses<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A Gathering of Old Men<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Facing Unpleasant Facts<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Fierce Attachments<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Gilead<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Long Haul<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Under the Glacier<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Bread Givers<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The White Album\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Absalom, Absalom!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former students are always asking me for reading suggestions to continue their lifelong learning. This list is random, composed primarily of fiction and essays. I will periodically add new lists in case you run out of things to read. I will follow up this reading list with a list of films not to be missed&#8211;however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3370,144],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reading","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}