{"id":294,"date":"2011-05-30T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/eatreadandbeharried\/?p=294"},"modified":"2011-05-30T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T03:50:16","slug":"more-books-that-go-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/","title":{"rendered":"More books that go together"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did it again: two random books that on the surface couldn’t be more different, read back to back, and they go together like barbecue and Copper River Salmon.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned yesterday, I was reading <\/a>A Mountain of Crumbs<\/a>.<\/em> Throughout the book, author Elena Gorokhova recalls how she came to crave a chance to make her own decisions and a bigger life outside of the claustrophobia and pretending of the Soviet Union. The realization comes slowly, over time.<\/p>\n

A delivery of another book came on Saturday and I picked it up to look at the front and back covers. And then made the mistake of reading chapter one. I finished it in the wee hours of Sunday. The book is Matched<\/em><\/a> by Ally Condie, the first of three books about a girl named Cassia who discovers that a planned life, no matter how stress free, isn’t as good as a life of uncertainty that you make for yourself. The realization comes slowly, over time.<\/p>\n

I did it again. A memoir of life behind the Iron Curtain. A dystopian novel for young adults. And they go together. Go figure. I have another 50 pages in the first book, and 6 months until the next book in the Matched<\/em> series comes out (unless I can snag an advance readers copy — anyone? Bueller?). Next up is The Emperor of All Maladies<\/em><\/a>, a biography of cancer. I’m thinking the chances of me chancing on another book that “goes” with that is slim. But you never know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did it again: two random books that on the surface couldn’t be more different, read back to back, and they go together like barbecue and Copper River Salmon. As I mentioned yesterday, I was reading A Mountain of Crumbs. Throughout the book, author Elena Gorokhova recalls how she came to crave a chance to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36],"tags":[38,42,79,85,133],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-a-mountain-of-crumbs","tag-ally-condie","tag-elena-gorokhova","tag-emperor-of-all-maladies","tag-matched"],"yoast_head":"\nMore books that go together - Landguppy Productions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More books that go together - Landguppy Productions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I did it again: two random books that on the surface couldn’t be more different, read back to back, and they go together like barbecue and Copper River Salmon. As I mentioned yesterday, I was reading A Mountain of Crumbs. Throughout the book, author Elena Gorokhova recalls how she came to crave a chance to...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Landguppy Productions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-31T03:50:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"landguppy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"landguppy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/\",\"name\":\"More books that go together - Landguppy Productions\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-31T03:50:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-31T03:50:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/cdde013254c67e1ec7777ac4726449ba\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Landguppy Productions\",\"description\":\"Writing the good read\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/cdde013254c67e1ec7777ac4726449ba\",\"name\":\"landguppy\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ebae5fdfc2cb060379d875d2471497d121c2bfec4537e9b8a0c713d279aaeb16?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ebae5fdfc2cb060379d875d2471497d121c2bfec4537e9b8a0c713d279aaeb16?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"landguppy\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.landguppy.com\/blog\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/@landguppy\"],\"url\":\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/author\/landguppy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"More books that go together - Landguppy Productions","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"More books that go together - Landguppy Productions","og_description":"I did it again: two random books that on the surface couldn’t be more different, read back to back, and they go together like barbecue and Copper River Salmon. As I mentioned yesterday, I was reading A Mountain of Crumbs. Throughout the book, author Elena Gorokhova recalls how she came to crave a chance to...","og_url":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/","og_site_name":"Landguppy Productions","article_published_time":"2011-05-31T03:50:16+00:00","author":"landguppy","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"landguppy","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/","url":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/","name":"More books that go together - Landguppy Productions","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-05-31T03:50:16+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-31T03:50:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/cdde013254c67e1ec7777ac4726449ba"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/more-books-that-go-together\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/","name":"Landguppy Productions","description":"Writing the good read","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/cdde013254c67e1ec7777ac4726449ba","name":"landguppy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ebae5fdfc2cb060379d875d2471497d121c2bfec4537e9b8a0c713d279aaeb16?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ebae5fdfc2cb060379d875d2471497d121c2bfec4537e9b8a0c713d279aaeb16?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"landguppy"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.landguppy.com\/blog","https:\/\/x.com\/@landguppy"],"url":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/author\/landguppy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}