First of all, I like to read. The title of this blog is somewhat ironic, or something, because in fact reading a book is not at all unusual for me.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s another thing I\u2019ve found that I\u2019ve enjoyed. Occasionally I\u2019ve stumbled across a blog in which somebody is reading a book that I\u2019ve read, and writing about it. Right now, for example, there\u2019s a great one at tor.com, in which someone is reading George R.R. Martin\u2019s\u00a0A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>\u00a0series, and writing a summary of each chapter, along with her reaction. So I\u2019m enjoying this, and I thought it might be fun to try something like it.<\/p>\n Of course, it\u2019s not very likely that anyone will find this blog, much less start reading it regularly. But then again, I\u2019m not in this for the glory. (Although, should glory come, I wouldn\u2019t turn it down.)<\/p>\n Finally, my reading retention leaves something to be desired. I have lots of books on my shelf or in boxes that I\u2019ve read before but have very little memory of. So by writing about books as I read them, I\u2019m hoping that this will help me remember them better, as well as perhaps getting more out of them through the extra reflection.<\/p>\n So anyway, onto a book.<\/p>\n \u2013Dave<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First of all, I like to read. The title of this blog is somewhat ironic, or something, because in fact reading a book is not at all unusual for me. Here\u2019s another thing I\u2019ve found that I\u2019ve enjoyed. Occasionally I\u2019ve stumbled across a blog in which somebody is reading a book that I\u2019ve read, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25865],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/slaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}