{"id":6119,"date":"2011-07-01T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2016-07-06T17:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:29:14","slug":"july-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/07\/01\/july-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"July Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today my blog is\u00a0three years old, and I hope it keeps going for years to come. It has all<\/em> been fun! Also, as of yesterday, there are 280 book reviews here, not including the weekly reflections on the fiction in The New Yorker<\/em> (I still hope to add something similar for short stories published elsewhere, but finding the time . . .).<\/p>\n

In an effort to personally revisit some of my favorite\u00a0books (or, if not my favorites, books that have remained with me nonetheless), and to re-recommend them, I’ve decided to start a new monthly feature (or, at least, see if a new monthly feature fits here). It’s a simple list\u00a0of five books worth reading or revisiting that were\u00a0previously reviewed\u00a0on The Mookse and the Gripes.<\/p>\n

I’m going to try to recommend books that fit the month in some way (for example, most of the books on this July list emphasize the summer), but who knows? Links in the text\u00a0are to the original\u00a0post.\u00a0Now, on to it.<\/p>\n