{"id":2624,"date":"2009-06-26T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2009-06-25T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:53:59","slug":"what-to-read-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2624","title":{"rendered":"What to Read Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summertime &#8211; for some, that&#8217;s the time when they actually read books for enjoyment. Although I don&#8217;t normally read a whole bunch (I know, I&#8217;m a failure of a librarian), I did just finish my second book of the year. Be nice now, because that&#8217;s twice as many as I read last year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve kind of gotten the hang of this whole &#8216;reading&#8217; thing and decided that I wouldn&#8217;t mind reading ANOTHER book. Whoa.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s my dilemma &#8211; what do I read next? I could either A) ask anyone else that works here for recommendations or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>B) use the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bookseer.com\">Book Seer<\/a><\/strong> to offer suggestions on my next literary adventure. To put it to the test, I just finished reading <em>Running with Scissors<\/em> by Augusten Burroughs (good stuff). The <strong>Book Seer<\/strong> thought that I would also enjoy <em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em> by James Frey or <em>Stuart: A Life Backwards<\/em> by Alexander Masters, as well as other titles by Burroughs and Frey.<\/p>\n<p>Just make sure that you actually <strong>liked<\/strong> the book that you just finished reading when using the <strong>Book Seer<\/strong>. Otherwise, you&#8217;re stuck with another bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Patty (and Lifehacker) for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summertime &#8211; for some, that&#8217;s the time when they actually read books for enjoyment. Although I don&#8217;t normally read a whole bunch (I know, I&#8217;m a failure of a librarian), I did just finish my second book of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,40],"tags":[178,251,341,1451],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-reading","category-whatcha-reading","tag-books","tag-reading","tag-reading-suggestions","tag-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}