{"id":151,"date":"2009-02-18T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:22","slug":"yearly-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/yearly-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearly Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recommended a book to me recently, and I told them I&#8217;d add it to my &#8220;to read&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a little problem:\u00a0 that list is massive.\u00a0 Impossibly massive.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention that some of my year is dedicated to re-reading old favourites.\u00a0 Call it a tradition, a habit, whatever &#8211; each year, I re-read (or try to re-read) the same set of books.\u00a0 And, every now and then, I&#8217;ll read a new book that gets added into that set.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the set as it stands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Brave New World<\/span> by Aldous Huxley<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<\/span> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rendezvous with Rama<\/span> by Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Black Hole<\/span> by Alan Dean Foster<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Man Outside<\/span> by Wolfgang Borchert<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Burglar in the Library<\/span> by Lawrence Block<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/span> by Ken Kesey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one with yearly reads.\u00a0 Anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recommended a book to me recently, and I told them I&#8217;d add it to my &#8220;to read&#8221; list. But there&#8217;s a little problem:\u00a0 that list is massive.\u00a0 Impossibly massive. Not to mention that some of my year is dedicated to re-reading old favourites.\u00a0 Call it a tradition, a habit, whatever &#8211; each year, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,65,64,62],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-books","tag-list","tag-novels","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-2r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}