{"id":5383,"date":"2024-04-30T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2024-04-30T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:09:19","slug":"5383","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/?p=5383","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1F4DA; I read some books in April!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#127911; <b>Xenocide<\/b> by Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li>&#127911; <b>You Are Why You Eat<\/b> by Dr. Ramani Durvasula<\/li>\n<li>&#127911; <b>Zorba the Greek<\/b> by Nikos Kazantzakis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first 26 books I read this year had titles starting with letters A-Z sequentially. This was an interesting challenge. I found books for each letter, though I must admit some of them I wasn&#8217;t very excited about (a few with good reason). Here&#8217;s a few stats that, interestingly, all contain the number 19:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>19 nonfiction, 7 fiction<\/li>\n<li>19 first time reads, 7 re-reads<\/li>\n<li>19 male authors, 7 female authors<\/li>\n<li>19 audiobooks, 6 eBooks, 1 paper book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After finishing, I considered making a second pass at the alphabet, and I also considered moving on to books whose titles started with numbers. In the end I decided I had too much of a backlog in my reading list, so I&#8217;m just going to start working through those books. Here are the other books I read in April:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#127911; <b>Children of the Mind<\/b> by Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li>&#127911; <b>The Last Shadow<\/b> by Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li>&#127911; <b>Breathless<\/b> by David Quammen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1F4DA; I read some books in April! &#127911; Xenocide by Orson Scott Card &#127911; You Are Why You Eat by Dr. Ramani Durvasula &#127911; Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis The first 26 books I read this year had titles starting with letters A-Z sequentially. This was an interesting challenge. I found books for each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rob.rs\/?p=5383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s87lvI-5383","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rob.rs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}