{"id":344,"date":"2012-02-13T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2012-02-13T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:49:49","slug":"no-book-review-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/no-book-review-today\/","title":{"rendered":"No Book Review Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allposters.com\/-sp\/Stack-of-Old-and-Dusty-Hardcover-Books-Posters_i4863386_.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/no-book-review-today\/stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"366,488\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-345\" title=\"stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stack-of-old-and-dusty-hardcover-books.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> You\u2019ve heard the phrase <a href=\"http:\/\/whitewhine.com\/\">First World Problems<\/a>? That there\u2019s no book review for you to read today is what I call a Fantasy World Problem, because only in a fantasy world is there anyone who wants to read my book reviews. They very idea that someone is disappointed today is silly. That\u2019s not me feeling sorry for myself. I recognize that writing is often a selfish act, and so is reading, and for the most part these book reviews are for me.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re not even for me to read later, they\u2019re just denouments, an ironic attempt at maintaining book-reading momentum. I want to read 50 books this year (one per week, with allowances for a few slips). So far so good\u2014in fact, thanks to finishing three books on vacation last week, I\u2019m slightly ahead of schedule. For what it\u2019s worth, right now I\u2019m in the middle of <em>Johannes Cabal the Necromancer<\/em> and I am enjoying it quite a bit. And it\u2019s the first in a series, which I find exciting to anticipate.<\/p>\n<p>Why write any of this today then? My daily to-do list has \u201cblog\u201d written on it, and Mondays are for book reviews. So this is my substitute. And if, by some very meager stretch, you ARE reading this, why not drop me a line (in the comments or via email) and tell me what you\u2019re reading and whether it\u2019s any good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve heard the phrase First World Problems? That there\u2019s no book review for you to read today is what I call a Fantasy World Problem, because only in a fantasy world is there anyone who wants to read my book reviews. They very idea that someone is disappointed today is silly. That\u2019s not me feeling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/no-book-review-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Book Review Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-5y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}