{"id":47,"date":"2010-05-03T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-06-30T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:49:44","slug":"some-extremely-good-books-that-not-enough-people-have-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Some extremely good books that not enough people have read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Banvard&#8217;s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn&#8217;t Change the World*<\/strong>, by Paul Collins<\/p>\n<p>Paul Collins, whom I first encountered in Believer Magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/believermag.com\/issues\/200403\/?read=article_collins\" target=\"_blank\">writing about Anna Sewell and Lucy Grealy<\/a>, here tells a wonderful story of thirteen people who appeared destined for greatness but ended up entirely forgotten.\u00a0 &#8220;Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books,&#8221; his account of a year that he and his wife spent in a book-mad Welsh town, is also delightful.<\/p>\n<p>*There&#8217;s a longer description <a href=\"..\/?p=1849\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong><strong>ccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary<\/strong>, by Bill Holm<\/p>\n<p>This is a magical series of essays on islands real and imaginary that Holm, a Minnesota poet, has visited. &#8220;Call Me Island. Or call me Holm. Same thing,&#8221; he begins, in one of the most beguiling introductions to an author I have ever read. <em>Eccentric Islands<\/em> is a wise, funny, warm-hearted masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping<\/strong>, by Paco Underhill<\/p>\n<p>Underhill is a kind of anthropologist of shopping, and this book is both an explanation of how we behave in stores, and an account of his decades investigating consumer behavior.\u00a0 Deeply fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banvard&#8217;s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn&#8217;t Change the World*, by Paul Collins Paul Collins, whom I first encountered in Believer Magazine, writing about Anna Sewell and Lucy Grealy, here tells a wonderful story of thirteen people who appeared destined for greatness but ended up entirely forgotten.\u00a0 &#8220;Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinkleinman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}