{"id":16,"date":"2005-02-24T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=7"},"modified":"2005-02-24T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T02:34:21","slug":"a-reading-diary-by-alberto-manguelfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/a-reading-diary-by-alberto-manguelfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reading Diary by Alberto ManguelFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year in books, books re-read, musings on why certain stories resonate, theories on literature, on authors, on characters, wide-ranging references and quotations, lists, personal details of day-to-day living (travel, the weather, Manguel&#8217;s home in France). This book is a lovely hodge-podge of all of these things, and it makes me want to go read each of the books that Manguel writes about. Like <i>A Year of Reading Proust<\/i> except so much better, because Manguel comes across as charming, as real, as someone who moves in a privileged circle of artists and writers but isn&#8217;t at all shallow or interested in mere name-dropping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year in books, books re-read, musings on why certain stories resonate, theories on literature, on authors, on characters, wide-ranging references and quotations, lists, personal details of day-to-day living (travel, the weather, Manguel&#8217;s home in France). This book is a lovely hodge-podge of all of these things, and it makes me want to go read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}