{"id":1339,"date":"2011-07-11T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2013-12-09T14:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:28:04","slug":"summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/07\/11\/summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer! Reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We compiled an extensive reading list last week at NCPR, but if that wasn\u2019t enough, let me direct you to one by Nick Kristoff, New York Times columnist. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/10kristof.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;WT.mc_id=OP-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-ARS-071011-NYT-NA&amp;WT.mc_ev=click\">Action! Romance! Social justice<\/a>! Kristoff\u2019s headline proclaims. As a fairly pedestrian reader, I\u2019d have to agree. And I\u2019m really pleased that Zola\u2019s <em>Germinal<\/em> tops Kristoff\u2019s list. I was assigned the book as a senior in high school, for an AP Modern European History class, and remember it fondly as one of the best required reading books ever. Light summer fare it is not (violent stories of class revolt rarely are). And to Kristoff\u2019s list of exclamatory descriptors I would add Revolution! Rebirth!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pale Fire<\/em>, too, is pretty genius. If we are going the Nabokov route, let me plug <em>Speak, Memory<\/em>\u2026and let me add those nouns to my exclamatory summer reading invocation:<\/p>\n<p>Speak! Memory!\u00a0 In short\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Read!<\/p>\n<p>Is there Revelation! in store for readers? Perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We compiled an extensive reading list last week at NCPR, but if that wasn\u2019t enough, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13969,13970,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}