{"id":16282,"date":"2017-02-23T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16282"},"modified":"2017-02-22T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:34:57","slug":"most-of-my-book-reviews-are-problematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/most-of-my-book-reviews-are-problematic\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of My Book Reviews Are Problematic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acculturated.com\/daily-scene\/the-problem-with-calling-something-interesting\/\" target=\"_new\">The Problem With Calling Something \u201cInteresting\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Calling something interesting is the height of sloppy thinking. Interesting is not descriptive, not objective, and not even meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting is a kind of linguistic connective tissue. When introducing an idea, it\u2019s easier to say \u2018interesting\u2019 than to think of an introduction that\u2019s simultaneously descriptive but not a spoiler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I often use <em>interesting<\/em> in book reports.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s fitting, since the book reports are the connective tissue that holds this blog together.  I go periods without saying something <strike>interesting<\/strike> meaningful <em>except<\/em> for the book reports that I post mainly so I can look back upon them on the blog to see what I thought about this book or what else I&#8217;ve read within the last two decades by the author or on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>You, gentle readers, all ten of you every day, are only along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>And by &#8220;ride,&#8221; I mean &#8220;looking for a book report on <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/book-report-the-sire-de-maletroits-door-by-robert-louis-stevenson-1985\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Sire de Maletroit&#8217;s Door<\/em><\/a> on Google so you can cut and paste it for a paper tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Problem With Calling Something \u201cInteresting\u201d: Calling something interesting is the height of sloppy thinking. Interesting is not descriptive, not objective, and not even meaningful. Interesting is a kind of linguistic connective tissue. When introducing an idea, it\u2019s easier to say \u2018interesting\u2019 than to think of an introduction that\u2019s simultaneously descriptive but not a spoiler. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16283,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions\/16283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}