{"id":296,"date":"2010-01-05T23:46:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=296"},"modified":"2010-01-05T23:46:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:46:22","slug":"theres-no-accounting-for-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/05\/theres-no-accounting-for-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No Accounting For Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished my first Early Reviewer book for LibraryThing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/8979251\/reviews\">The Cart Before the Corpse<\/a> by Carolyn McSparren.\u00a0 A mystery set in Appalachian Georgia with a backdrop of carriage racing.\u00a0 I enjoyed it&#8230;not great literature but in the same tradition as Janet Evanovich and Diane Mott Davison.\u00a0 You can read my review at LT.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the funny part: I was all excited about my review so once it was posted, I went to the page and read the other review.\u00a0 That reviewer HATED the book!\u00a0 Thought it was boring, figured out the murdered right away, etc. etc. etc.\u00a0 Oh well, as my father says, the world would be very dull if we all thought alike.\u00a0 I did find myself second guessing my review but I really did enjoy the book.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery was my first book of 2010.\u00a0 I joined the LibraryThing 75 book challenge so I&#8217;ve got just 74 to go.\u00a0 I better pick up the pace a bit.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/45083\">Scandalmonger<\/a> by William Safire and hope to find time to finish it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Project 365 Update: So far, I&#8217;ve kept up with taking a picture each day rather than drawing on already posted picture.\u00a0 You can view my pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/sets\/72157623123935270\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished my first Early Reviewer book for LibraryThing: The Cart Before the Corpse by Carolyn McSparren.\u00a0 A mystery set in Appalachian Georgia with a backdrop of carriage racing.\u00a0 I enjoyed it&#8230;not great literature but in the same tradition as Janet Evanovich and Diane Mott Davison.\u00a0 You can read \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/05\/theres-no-accounting-for-taste\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[59,11],"tags":[27,61,60,62,157],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-4M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}