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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nTop to bottom: I have been on a bit of a library spree lately, as evidenced by my stack of checked-out books, shown above. I started Wittgenstein Jr<\/em> today and am liking it so far – it’s the third book by Iyer that I’ve read, and it’s deadpan funny in the same way the others were. I read The Penderwicks<\/em> and The Penderwicks on Gardam Street<\/em> in 2008 and really liked them (they’re kids’ books that remind me of Elizabeth Enright’s Melendy Quartet —sweet well-written realistic fiction about a family) but I haven’t yet read the next two books in the series, so I decided to get them all and have a Jeanne Birdsall reading spree. The New Yorker said<\/a> Satin Island<\/em> is an “experimental novel” that “takes the form of a brilliant series of numbered digressions on parachute accidents, L\u00e9vi-Strauss, hub airports, and many other things,” which sounds pretty great. I haven’t read anything by Miranda July or Daniel Handler and saw these two books on the New Books shelf today. And Nightwalking<\/em> is nonfiction, subtitled “A Nocturnal History of London”: I like both walking and London, so am looking forward to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Top to bottom: Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyer The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall Satin Island by Tom McCarthy The Penderwicks in Spring by Jeanne Birdsall The First Bad Man by Miranda July We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler Nightwalking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalmeta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWittgenstein Jr<\/em> by Lars Iyer
\nThe Penderwicks<\/em> by Jeanne Birdsall
\nThe Penderwicks on Gardam Street<\/em> by Jeanne Birdsall
\nThe Penderwicks at Point Mouette<\/em> by Jeanne Birdsall
\nSatin Island<\/em> by Tom McCarthy
\nThe Penderwicks in Spring<\/em> by Jeanne Birdsall
\nThe First Bad Man<\/em> by Miranda July
\nWe Are Pirates<\/em> by Daniel Handler
\nNightwalking<\/em> by Matthew Beaumont
\n(Oh, and that’s Wolf in White Van<\/em> by John Darnielle to the right, which I read recently.)<\/p>\n