{"id":10993,"date":"2013-12-31T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:09:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:09:44","slug":"favorite-books-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10993","title":{"rendered":"Favorite books of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read too few books this year, down considerably &#8212; laughably, even &#8212; from last year. I&#8217;d be tempted to blame the longer novels on my list for eating into my time, and they did, but I also saw my attempts to zip through a pile of very short books from the library backfire. (Seriously, a couple of those two-hundred-pages-or-fewer books seemed to take me <i>forever<\/i>.) There was also some re-reading, listening to audio books of the first four <i>Dark Tower<\/i> novels, and submissions to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope<\/a> that also ate into the final count, but whatever the cause I reader fewer books than I wanted to this year.<\/p>\n<p>With a good fair-sized helping of comics and graphic novels, I managed to get the count up to fifty. Of those, these were probably my favorites:<\/p>\n<div id=\"wb01f10103e451148499423f56a06ed44\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/widget_get.php?userid=unrealfred&#038;theID=wb01f10103e451148499423f56a06ed44\"><\/script><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/profile\/unrealfred\">My Library<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\">LibraryThing<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read too few books this year, down considerably &#8212; laughably, even &#8212; from last year. I&#8217;d be tempted to blame the longer novels on my list for eating into my time, and they did, but I also saw my attempts to zip through a pile of very short books from the library backfire. (Seriously, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10993\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,28],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11008,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions\/11008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}