{"id":243,"date":"2009-12-15T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-01-31T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T22:19:36","slug":"middlesex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/middlesex\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesex"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not typically a reader of fiction. Nothing wrong with it, it’s just that I prefer non-fiction for some reason. Recently, though, I was looking for a book to read on my bus travels and I was all out, so Julia suggested I read Middlesex<\/a>, a Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Despite it being fiction, I enjoyed it. What I liked most about it was probably its historical content: it traces a family and its offspring from before the Greco-Turkish war, spending most of its time on that journey and only occasionally returning to the present. It read more like historical fiction than a typical novel, so I felt that I was indeed learning something. I’d recommend it.<\/p>\n

I’m now back to my old ways and reading Influence<\/a> by Robert Cialdini. So far a fascinating book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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