{"id":707,"date":"2012-02-29T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=707"},"modified":"2012-02-29T21:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T03:00:31","slug":"february-booked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/february-booked\/","title":{"rendered":"February, booked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Booked-leaf7.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-813\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Booked-leaf7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"36\" height=\"21\" \/><\/a>Bookending the month with a few notes on things read, noted, seen, heard.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>READ\u00a0<em>The Life of St. Norbert (<em>Vita B).<\/em> <\/em>Pleasantly surprised to find this 12th century hagiography, which started ominously enough, turned into a real page-turner. (This was assigned reading for the Cornerstones Seminar, a St. Norbert College program on the institution&#8217;s roots and heritage.)<\/li>\n<li>HEARD Lawrence University sophomore Susannah Gilbert hold a crowd with her first solo poetry reading at Harmony Cafe. I have known Susannah her whole life and, now, for an increasing chunk of mine!<\/li>\n<li>READ The Penn Stater&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5875861\/the-cover-of-the-new-the-penn-stater-magazine-is-dark-demented-and-perfect\">Our Darkest Days<\/a>&#8221; issue. Masterful.<\/li>\n<li>READ <em>The Murder Room<\/em>. You&#8217;d think I would enjoy P.D. James more than I do. I love a well-written mystery, and, after all, James writes about my stuff: publishing; manor houses; the Church;\u00a0museums; London; holy orders; the English countryside. Her detective writes poetry! Every now and again, I try a new one of hers &#8211; and it&#8217;s not unpleasant. But it&#8217;s a bit of a slog all the same. I think her characterization is very flat, although many reviewers disagree.<\/li>\n<li>READ <em>Hearing With the Heart<\/em>. I hope I can interest my women&#8217;s study group in this readable book on discernment, shared with me by Julie Massey (Mission &amp; Ministry).<\/li>\n<li>GUILTY PLEASURE Rereading own writing. (Seriously, I&#8217;ll read over a well-turned e-mail if nothing else is to hand. It&#8217;s quite disgusting, really. Does anyone else do this?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookending the month with a few notes on things read, noted, seen, heard. READ\u00a0The Life of St. Norbert (Vita B). Pleasantly surprised to find this 12th century hagiography, which started ominously enough, turned into a real page-turner. (This was assigned&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/february-booked\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}