{"id":3903,"date":"2010-05-05T22:26:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2010-05-05T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T02:26:45","slug":"one-rabbit-two-rabbit-three-rabbit-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3903","title":{"rendered":"One rabbit, two rabbit, three rabbit, four…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finished reading a couple of books today, both that art therapy textbook I’m helping develop at work and Joe Hill’s most recent novel, Horns<\/i>. I liked both of them. I think the former, once it’s finalized with figures and an accompanying DVD, will be a valuable resource for any beginning art therapist. It’s also pretty accessible (albeit not immediately of interest) to anyone else. Horns<\/i>, on the other hand, was entertaining but also kind of problematic — in different ways from Hill’s previous book, Heart-shaped Box<\/i>, though I still think he hasn’t quite written a novel as good as his short stories. (I’ve also really liked his comic book work so far.) Maybe it’s that Horns<\/i> spends so much of its time in dark and evil thoughts, in its characters worst impulses — that is, at least in part, what the book is about<\/i> — makes it a lot less fun than it might otherwise be. But Hill has a knack for creating immediately interesting characters, with whom we empathize, and I can hardly fault him for writing a book that occasionally made me uncomfortable. It’s a little messy around the edges, maybe, even more so than Box<\/i>, but Hill remains a writer to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n

On the way home, I bought a copy of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo<\/i> at Penn Station. I have plenty of books already — hence my short-lived “no new books” policy — and a brand new e-book reader in the form of my iPad, but…well, I’ve heard good things. I’m not really far enough along in it to say whether I’m enjoying it or not, but I am intrigued.<\/p>\n

And beyond that, it was just an average Wednesday. The most interesting thing that happened today was reading about the Centzon Totochtin<\/a>, divine rabbits, and the Aztec gods of drunkenness. It’s for a book on excessive drinking, whose cover designs were circulated around the office this morning. I particularly liked this image<\/a> somebody drew and put on their blog.<\/p>\n

Me, I just put this<\/i> here.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished reading a couple of books today, both that art therapy textbook I’m helping develop at work and Joe Hill’s most recent novel, Horns. I liked both of them. I think the former, once it’s finalized with figures and an accompanying DVD, will be a valuable resource for any beginning art therapist. It’s also … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[107,16,28,52],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alcohol","tag-books","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}