{"id":384,"date":"2010-11-21T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=384"},"modified":"2010-11-21T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:15:05","slug":"dont-read-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/21\/dont-read-this-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Read This Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

…if you’re a reader, that is!\u00a0\u00a0 Pat Conroy<\/a>, author of books such as The Water is Wide<\/em> and The Prince of Tides<\/em>, has written a nonfiction account of his lifelong love affair with books titled My Reading Life<\/em>.\u00a0 I chose an audio version of the book, read by the author himself, and enjoyed hours of Conroy’s gruff voice, the lover caressing his own words as he moves from descriptions of\u00a0 Gone With the Wind<\/em> to War and Peace <\/em>and the role each novel played in his life.\u00a0 It is a great book.\u00a0 So, why shouldn’t you read it?\u00a0 Because my reading list just got longer and so will yours.\u00a0 You can check out the book list<\/a> on Conroy’s website.<\/p>\n

Also, Conroy has really made me rethink the 75-book challenge.\u00a0 I really haven’t had too\u00a0 much trouble reading a book and a half a week but I wonder if I would have taken a bit more time to absorb and appreciate them without the deadline.\u00a0 In addition, as I look over my list for the year, I wonder how many had the kind of impact that Conroy describes.\u00a0 I read and listened to some great books this year but were they life changing?\u00a0 And, if I had read some of them more slowly, would they have had a bigger effect on my life?\u00a0 Maybe I should abandon the number of books and focus on Conroy’s goal: 200 pages a day!<\/p>\n

How would I fit them in?\u00a0 By finally giving up television, something I’m seriously considering since I heard the advertisement yesterday for a new “reality” show called Bridalplasty<\/a>.\u00a0 I guess I missed the earlier iterations of this plot line: brides to be move into a mansion and compete for plastic surgery and a fabulous wedding. This seems like an obscene example of our superficial society and the fact that these kinds of shows are considered reality really makes me worry about the future.\u00a0 This certainly doesn’t reflect the reality of my life or those of my friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…if you’re a reader, that is!\u00a0\u00a0 Pat Conroy, author of books such as The Water is Wide and The Prince of Tides, has written a nonfiction account of his lifelong love affair with books titled My Reading Life.\u00a0 I chose an audio version of the book, read by the author \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[75,11],"tags":[27,101,157],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-6c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}