{"id":3318,"date":"2011-10-28T03:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/10\/28\/book-meme-2012-world-book-night-which-have-you-read\/"},"modified":"2011-10-28T03:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:19:34","slug":"book-meme-2012-world-book-night-which-have-you-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/10\/28\/book-meme-2012-world-book-night-which-have-you-read\/","title":{"rendered":"book meme 2012 World Book Night &#8212; which have you read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBelow is the list of the twentyfive books chosen for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readinggroups.org\/news\/world-book-night-2012---the-25-titles-announced\/\">World Book Night 2012<\/a>. According to the site, these books &#8220;were selected partly by a public vote for the World Book Night top 100, with an editorial committee whittling down the list&#8221;, which may explain some of the odd nature of the list. I thought I&#8217;ll keep it simple for this meme: everything I&#8217;ve read is in italics, everything I&#8217;m not planning to ever read is struck out.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Pride and Prejudice<\/cite> by Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Player of Games<\/cite> by Iain M Banks<\/li>\n<li>Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham<\/li>\n<li><cite>Notes from a Small Island<\/cite> by Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li>The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho<\/li>\n<li>The Take by Martina Cole<\/li>\n<li>Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell<\/li>\n<li>Someone Like You by Roald Dahl<\/li>\n<li>A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n<li>Room by Emma Donoghue<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier<\/li>\n<li>The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n<li>Misery by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li><strike>The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic<\/strike> by Sophie Kinsella<\/li>\n<li>Small Island by Andrea Levy<\/li>\n<li>Let the Right One In by John Ajvde Lindqvist<\/li>\n<li><strike>The Road<\/strike> by Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n<li><strike>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/strike> by Audrey Niffenegger<\/li>\n<li>The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell<\/li>\n<li>The Damned Utd by David Peace<\/li>\n<li><cite>Good Omens<\/cite> by Terry Pratchett &#038; Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n<li>How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff<\/li>\n<li>Touching the Void by Joe Simpson<\/li>\n<li>I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith<\/li>\n<li>The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nOnly four out of twentyfive read means this is not the list for me. A weird mixture of genres, established classics and recent blockbusters, yet not very diverse considering this is supposed to be for <em>World<\/em> Book Night. It&#8217;s certainly not all Dead White Males, but as far as I can tell these are all authors writing for\/firmly established in the UK\/US book markets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be honest, I never like this sort of list and if anything makes me less inclined to read a book, it&#8217;s when it&#8217;s being promoted as part of something like this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Meme found via <a href=\"http:\/\/nwhyte.livejournal.com\/1839235.html\">Nicholas Whyte<\/a>, originated by <a href=\"http:\/\/iansales.com\/2011\/10\/25\/world-book-meme\/\">Ian Sales<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the list of the twentyfive books chosen for World Book Night 2012. According to the site, these books &#8220;were selected partly by a public vote for the World Book Night top 100, with an editorial committee whittling down the list&#8221;, which may explain some of the odd nature of the list. I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-book-review","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}