{"id":5565,"date":"2012-08-19T00:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T05:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2012-08-19T00:11:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T05:11:37","slug":"mgr-to-read-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/mgr-to-read-list\/","title":{"rendered":"MGR: My &#8220;To Be Read&#8221; List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an extensive to be read list.\u00a0 In fact, it&#8217;s probably more like a book case.<\/p>\n<p>I have a physical book list.\u00a0 I also have a ton of e-books, most of them in Kindle format.\u00a0 All are waiting (mostly patiently) for my time and attention.\u00a0 My reading has been going much slower than in previous years, but I am still getting some things read.<\/p>\n<p>My in-progress reading is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Our Oriental Heritage<\/em>, Will Durant (Volume One of a ten volume set).\u00a0 I realized I&#8217;d never taken world history, so I asked Lazette Gifford what she&#8217;d recommend (because I thought I&#8217;d remembered her mentioning she&#8217;d been reading on the subject a few years before), and I got the books she recommended.<\/li>\n<li><em>Moneyball<\/em>, Michael Lewis. This is a Kindle format e-book about advanced statistics in baseball.\u00a0 I usually follow basketball, and discussions about advanced statistics are becoming more common in the sport.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certain the subject of Lewis&#8217;s book has had a lot to do with that.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggle<\/em>, Thomas Sowell. I&#8217;m trying to get an unbiased understanding of political thought.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On deck, waiting to be read (there are hundreds of these, but I&#8217;m going to list the most likely to be read next below);<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Unexpected Husband, Debbie Macomber<\/li>\n<li>A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin<\/li>\n<li><em>Defying Hitler<\/em>, Sebastian Haffner<\/li>\n<li><em>12th &amp; McGraw<\/em>, Forrest Haskell<\/li>\n<li><em>Known and Unknown<\/em>, Donald Rumsfeld<\/li>\n<li><em>Without Hesitation<\/em>, Hugh Shelton<\/li>\n<li><em>Obama&#8217;s Wars<\/em>, Bob Woodward<\/li>\n<li><em>Amierca in the Gilded Age<\/em>, Sean, Dennis, Cashman<\/li>\n<li><em>They Met at Shiloh<\/em>, Philip Bryant<em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an extensive to be read list.\u00a0 In fact, it&#8217;s probably more like a book case. I have a physical book list.\u00a0 I also have a ton of e-books, most of them in Kindle format.\u00a0 All are waiting (mostly patiently) for my time and attention.\u00a0 My reading has been <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/mgr-to-read-list\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merry-go-round-blog-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}