{"id":71,"date":"2008-01-03T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-01-03T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T20:13:00","slug":"new-year-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/new-year-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marathon sleeve notes to my best of year CD are below. As an experiment, to welcome in the new year, I&#8217;m enabling comments on the site in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, here&#8217;s an interactive start to the year. I need a new novel to read next. I&#8217;m currently reading some early Steve Ditko comics, a short book about the Pink Floyd&#8217;s first album, a draft of a book about Young Adult Fiction and rereading Philip Roth&#8217;s &#8216;The Ghost Writer&#8217; but I&#8217;ll have finished that tonight and need to start something new by the weekend. My christmas pile includes Graham Greene&#8217;s collected letters, the Sid Griffin book about Dylan&#8217;s basement tapes and Philip Davis&#8217;s biography of Bernard Malamud. At the moment I&#8217;m tempted most by the latter for my daytime read, but I&#8217;m also going to need another novel to read in bed. The latest Doug Coupland? Another Richard Yates? Some crime writer I haven&#8217;t tried yet? Is the recent Jonathan Coe worth trying? I&#8217;m tempted by &#8216;What Is The What&#8217;. Then there&#8217;s the pile of books I&#8217;ve been meaning to read for ages, at the top of which is Mitchell&#8217;s &#8216;No. 9 Dream&#8217;. I&#8217;m open to suggestions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marathon sleeve notes to my best of year CD are below. As an experiment, to welcome in the new year, I&#8217;m enabling comments on the site in 2008. With that in mind, here&#8217;s an interactive start to the year. I need a new novel to read next. I&#8217;m currently reading some early Steve Ditko comics, a short book about the Pink Floyd&#8217;s first album, a draft of a book about Young Adult Fiction and rereading Philip Roth&#8217;s &#8216;The Ghost Writer&#8217; but I&#8217;ll have finished that tonight and need to start something new by the weekend. My christmas pile includes Graham Greene&#8217;s collected letters, the Sid Griffin book about Dylan&#8217;s basement tapes and Philip Davis&#8217;s biography of Bernard Malamud. At the moment I&#8217;m tempted most&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}