{"id":454,"date":"2009-06-04T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=454"},"modified":"2009-06-04T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:41:21","slug":"president-celestes-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2009\/06\/president-celestes-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"President Celeste&#039;s Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>We were asked what President Dick Celeste was reading this summer for possible inclusion in a national story on college presidents\u2019 summer reading lists. We thought you might be interested as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>He collected a stack of used books at Powell<\/span><span>\u2019<\/span><span>s Bookstore in Portland,  Ore., on his\u00a0last visit. They include\u00a0his usual load of mysteries \u2014 three novels by Elmore Leonard (&#8220;City Primeval,&#8221; &#8220;The Switch,&#8221; and &#8220;The Hunted&#8221;), James Ellroy\u2019s &#8220;Blood on the Moon,&#8221; and \u201cLuna,\u201d an old tale by Delacorta. \u00a0In addition, he\u00a0picked up e.e.cummings&#8217; &#8220;100 Selected Poems&#8221; and David Lynch\u2019s &#8220;Catching the Big Fish.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>He\u00a0supplemented those purchases with &#8220;Don\u2019t Fill Up On the Antipasto,&#8221; a father-son cookbook by Tony Danza, and Lee Child\u2019s novel &#8220;Running Blind&#8221; (\u201cboth impulse purchases at Barnes and Nobel,\u201d he says), and &#8220;Colorado,&#8221; a 1947 Louis Bromfield novel which was given to Celeste by his wife. Additional books include &#8220;America\u2019s Nuclear Wastelands&#8221; written by and gift from <strong>Max Power \u201963<\/strong>, and &#8220;Rules of Thumb,&#8221; a management book written by and gift from <strong>Alan Webber P <\/strong><\/span><span><strong>\u201904<\/strong>.<\/span><span> <\/span><span>As of early June, Celeste was halfway through the pile!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were asked what President Dick Celeste was reading this summer for possible inclusion in a national story on college presidents\u2019 summer reading lists. We thought you might be interested as well. He collected a stack of used books at Powell\u2019s Bookstore in Portland, Ore., on his\u00a0last visit. They include\u00a0his usual load of mysteries \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-july-2009","tag-around-cc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}