{"id":225,"date":"2011-03-07T21:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2011-03-07T21:19:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:19:47","slug":"random-assortment-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2011\/03\/random-assortment-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Random assortment 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argh&#8230; I know it&#8217;s not a realistic goal to blog every book I read, but the problem is when I start to just keep a list I think &#8220;oh, that one I want to write about&#8230;&#8221; But then when I want to look back &amp; see what I read, it&#8217;s not there. So I&#8217;m going to try something new: when I&#8217;m done with one book, I can&#8217;t start another until I list it. Hah, we&#8217;ll see how long that lasts.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve set my timer and I will enter as many books as I can recall or document that I read within the past few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgette Heyer, <em>Lady of Quality<\/em> (1972) &#8211; B+, an old favorite<\/li>\n<li>John Lloyd &amp; John Mitchinson, <em>The Book of General Ignorance<\/em> (2007) &#8211; B, lots of fun to read (from the QI folks) but dubious research<\/li>\n<li>Garth Nix, <em>Sabriel<\/em> (1995) &#8211; A-, wow! a new fantasy I actually love! Must read the rest of them.<\/li>\n<li>Sally Hogshead, <em>Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation<\/em> (2007) &#8211; D, started &amp; then skimmed most before the library copy expired on my Nook; more of a business book than I realized<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argh&#8230; I know it&#8217;s not a realistic goal to blog every book I read, but the problem is when I start to just keep a list I think &#8220;oh, that one I want to write about&#8230;&#8221; But then when I want to look back &amp; see what I read, it&#8217;s not there. So I&#8217;m going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}