{"id":1208,"date":"2011-08-18T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:32:57","slug":"shelf-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/shelf-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"swing\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/8\/swing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a few questions for you\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What was your favorite book as a child?<\/li>\n<li>Who are your top five favorite authors?<\/li>\n<li>What book changed your life?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve been asked to be the Book Brahmin, to answer a series of book-related questions, for an upcoming issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shelf Awareness<\/a>. I love books. This should be easy.<\/p>\n<p>But how ever will I choose? The <em>Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao!<\/em> <em>Refuge!<\/em> Surely I\u2019m overlooking something. <em>Middlesex!<\/em> I\u2019ll send it off and realize that I\u2019ve forgotten my favorite book of all time. <em>Me Talk Pretty One Day!<\/em> And then I will ask if it can really be my favorite book of all time if I had completely forgotten it. <em>Sight Hound!<\/em> These are the questions that keep me awake at night. OMG <em>Cutting for Stone<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>How would you answer? Or, how would you answer for me?<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don\u2019t already know, Shelf Awareness is a newsletter about books and the book industry. They have two issues, one for trade professionals and a new one for readers. In the readers version, they write reviews and provide updates on books that are coming out that week. If you haven\u2019t signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/readers-issue.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shelf Awareness for Readers<\/a>, you should. Right now they\u2019re running a contest. You could win free stuff!<\/p>\n<p>And just in case you\u2019ve forgotten there are 55 days until <a href=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Who in This Room: The Realities of Cancer, Fish and Demolition<\/em><\/a> comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few questions for you\u2026 What was your favorite book as a child? Who are your top five favorite authors? What book changed your life? I\u2019ve been asked to be the Book Brahmin, to answer a series of book-related questions, for an upcoming issue of Shelf Awareness. I love books. This should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,21],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-promotion","category-who-in-this-room","category-writing","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}