{"id":3177,"date":"2023-12-30T13:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2023-12-30T00:12:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T08:12:46","slug":"book-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"Book Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the start of the pandemic, in the summer of 2020, I started keeping a diary of the books I read. \u00a0I finish a book then\u00a0write up a short essay about it. \u00a0I write\u00a0a plot summary and add any thoughts I have about the writing. \u00a0Then I post the entry on my website. \u00a0The diary helps me keep track of, and remember details\u00a0of, books I&#8217;ve read, and share my reading with friends. \u00a0You can read all of my book diary entries\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br><br>Mostly I read nineteenth and early twentieth century novels. \u00a0I read some non-fiction, particularly related to ministry. \u00a0I read some contemporary gay fiction. \u00a0I like to read books that friends recommend. \u00a0If you&#8217;re curious whether I&#8217;ve read a particular book you can use the search function on the webpage (scroll down to below the list of books to find the search box).<br><br>For 2023, it turns out I&#8217;ve read twenty-six books, the low end of average for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of the pandemic, in the summer of 2020, I started keeping a diary of the books I&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3177\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Diary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}