{"id":531,"date":"2005-06-13T04:16:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=531"},"modified":"2009-03-22T04:37:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T09:37:30","slug":"25-books-in-25-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2005\/06\/13\/25-books-in-25-days\/","title":{"rendered":"25 books in 25 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/books.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"261\" alt=\"pile of books\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nYou may know that apart from this blog, I also got a <a href=\"\/books\/\">booklog<\/a>. A while back I made a bet with myself, to review 25 books in 25 days. I did this because I had quite a backlog of unfinished and half finished reviews waiting to be completed and put on the site and the white spots on the booklog were getting embarassing&#8230; I started on May 20th and it is now June 13rd and I&#8217;ve just completed my 25th review, so I thought I&#8217;d present them to you, my adoring public, now:\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"nobullet\">\n<li>13-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/goodbye-to-all-that.html\">Goodbye to All That<\/a>: Robert Graves<\/li>\n<li>12-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/nine-layers-of-sky.html\">Nine Layers of Sky<\/a>: Liz Williams<\/li>\n<li>11-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/motion-of-light-in-water.html\">The Motion of Light in Water<\/a>: Samuel Delany<\/li>\n<li>10-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/eyre-affair.html\">The Eyre Affair<\/a>: Jasper Fforde<\/li>\n<li>09-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/finity.html\">Finity<\/a>: John Barnes<\/li>\n<li>08-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/room-of-one-own.html\">A Room of One&#8217;s Own<\/a>: Virginia Woolf<\/li>\n<li>07-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/mediterranean-volume-1.html\">The Mediterranean Vol. 1<\/a>: Fernand Braudel<\/li>\n<li>06-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/best-democracy-money-can-buy.html\">The Best Democracy Money can Buy<\/a>: Greg Palast<\/li>\n<li>05-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/the-truth.html\">The Truth<\/a>: Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<li>04-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/boiling-a-frog.html\">Boiling a Frog<\/a>: Christopher Brookmyre<\/li>\n<li>03-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/age-of-extremes.html\">Age of Extremes<\/a>: Eric Hobsbawm<\/li>\n<li>02-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/snowball-earth.html\">Snowball Earth<\/a>: Gabrielle Walker<\/li>\n<li>01-06-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/demon-in-the-freezer.html\">The Demon in the Freezer<\/a>: Richard Preston<\/li>\n<li>31-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/all-the-colours-of-darkness.html\">All the Colours of Darkness<\/a>: Lloyd Biggle, Jr<\/li>\n<li>30-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/shadow-of-the-torturer.html\">Shadow of the Torturer<\/a>: Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>29-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/land-leviathan.html\">The Land Leviathan<\/a>: Michael Moorcock<\/li>\n<li>28-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/karl-marx.html\">Karl Marx: A Life<\/a>: Francis Wheen<\/li>\n<li>27-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/put-a-lid-on-it.html\">Put a Lid on it<\/a>: Donald E. Westlake<\/li>\n<li>26-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/guardians-of-time.html\">Guardians of Time<\/a>: Poul Anderson<\/li>\n<li>25-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/lord-kalvan-of-otherwhen.html\">Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen<\/a>: H. Beam Piper<\/li>\n<li>24-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/hogfather.html\">Hogfather<\/a>: Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<li>23-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/documents-in-the-case.html\">The Documents in the Case<\/a>: Dorothy Sayers<\/li>\n<li>22-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/murder-of-quality.html\">A Murder of Quality<\/a>: John Le Carr&eacute;<\/li>\n<li>21-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/revolt-in-2100.html\">Revolt in 2100<\/a>: Robert A. Heinlein<\/li>\n<li>20-05-2005: added <a href=\"\/books\/universe-between.html\">The Universe Between<\/a>: Alan E. Nourse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThere you go, 25 reviews of books of varying qualities and genres: &#8220;voor elck wat wils&#8221; and for you to exclaim about, praise or mock me over. It&#8217;s been fun, if somewhat wearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may know that apart from this blog, I also got a booklog. A while back I made a bet with myself, to review 25 books in 25 days. I did this because I had quite a backlog of unfinished and half finished reviews waiting to be completed and put on the site and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,92],"tags":[268,2443,2456],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-meta","tag-books","tag-book-review","tag-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}