{"id":711,"date":"2010-08-13T06:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2010-08-24T08:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:17:49","slug":"book-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/book-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It seems like it\u2019s about time to make myself useful, that I should impart some great knowledge or research findings. There\u2019s just one problem. This book<\/a>. I\u2019m trapped and I can\u2019t get out. Not only is David Sedaris on CD occupying my limited free brain space in the car, but at home it\u2019s all about the book. I dream of the end of the day when I can go to bed and read it. That\u2019s all I want.<\/p>\n

I love a good epic, multi-generational tale, one that starts with the narrator\u2019s grandparents immigrating to foreign lands usually, but not always, in times of war or disaster, on cargo ships surviving illnesses like tuberculosis and scurvy. I love almost any story that involves scurvy, except those that involve Ernest Shackleton and the eating of pets. I love present narrators \u2013 narrators as characters \u2013 who talk to me and tell me their stories. I love stories that end lifetimes later with the realization and loss of love, not always the romantic kind. This book fills all of these requirements. It might just make the list of my top 3 favorite books of all time.<\/p>\n

The list:<\/p>\n

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides<\/p>\n

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz<\/p>\n

And now: Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese<\/p>\n

What are your top 3? Don\u2019t cheat. Only 3. They don\u2019t have to be literary or lofty; they only have to make you happy. Tell me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like it\u2019s about time to make myself useful, that I should impart some great knowledge or research findings. There\u2019s just one problem. This book. I\u2019m trapped and I can\u2019t get out. Not only is David Sedaris on CD occupying my limited free brain space in the car, but at home it\u2019s all about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}