{"id":3133,"date":"2020-12-14T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T01:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2024-01-01T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:31:50","slug":"holidays-reads-for-a-desert-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/holidays-reads-for-a-desert-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Reads: Books for a Desert Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/Books-for-a-Desert-Island.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3613\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/Books-for-a-Desert-Island-300x300.png\" alt=\"cover art\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/Books-for-a-Desert-Island-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/Books-for-a-Desert-Island-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/Books-for-a-Desert-Island-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/Books-for-a-Desert-Island-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/Books-for-a-Desert-Island.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>No big holiday plans for a while, not in these days, unfortunately. But it doesn&#8217;t mean that we can&#8217;t plan ahead, at least in our heads for now. Let&#8217;s jump on the latest bandwagon and think about the books we would take with us to that proverbial desert island, or perhaps the resort in the photo here. Just like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webintravel.com\/5-books-id-take-to-a-desert-island-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">these readers sharing their choices and the reasons why<\/a>, Books We Read team members explain their choices in the next few posts.<\/p>\n<p>Book recommendations for the holiday season from Books We Read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Best of Roald Dahl<\/i> by Roald Dahl (stories for adults by author popular with children) \u2013 read the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/desert-island-julie\">post by Julie Rossano<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/fifth-season-broken-earth-series-book-1\/oclc\/1126038824&amp;referer=brief_results\">The Fifth <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/fifth-season-broken-earth-series-book-1\/oclc\/1126038824&amp;referer=brief_results\">Season<\/a> by N K Jemisin and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/house-in-the-cerulean-sea\/oclc\/1145278215?referer=br&amp;ht=edition\">Th<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/house-in-the-cerulean-sea\/oclc\/1145278215?referer=br&amp;ht=edition\">e House <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/house-in-the-cerulean-sea\/oclc\/1145278215?referer=br&amp;ht=edition\">in the Cerulean Sea<\/a> by TJ Klune (one for the brain, one for the heart) \u2013 read the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/desert-island-jenny\">post by Jenny Coffman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>The Arcades Project<\/em> by Walter Benjamin (1927-40, unfinished work of cultural criticism) \u2013 read the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/desert-island-nick\">post by Nick Allred<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JCROGp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Good Soldier<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u0160vejk<\/em><\/a> by Jaroslav Ha\u0161ek (1921-1923, satirical dark comedy) \u2013 read the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/desert-island-judit\/\">post by Judit Ward<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/You-can-take-one-book.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3125 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/You-can-take-one-book.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/You-can-take-one-book.png 640w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2020\/11\/You-can-take-one-book-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No big holiday plans for a while, not in these days, unfortunately. 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