{"id":34657,"date":"2025-12-15T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34657"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:09:17","slug":"not-that-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/15\/not-that-impressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Not That Impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/life\/2025\/12\/15\/milwaukee-bookseller-shares-his-picks-of-138-books-he-read-this-year\/87677590007\/\" target=\"_new\">This Milwaukeean read 138 books this year. Which does he recommend?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s ahead of me&#8211;I might end up with 90 this year if I read fast (my book year ends the week after Christmas, although I have been considering calling a lid on it when I finish my current book because, 2025, man).<\/p>\n<p>The late blogger Randy Jackson read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/wherein-brian-j-is-made-to-look-like-a-piker\/\" target=\"_new\">thirty books a month<\/a>.  Jeez, he died like 10 years ago.  Do I still have to use &#8220;late&#8221; when talking about someone dead that long?  I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s protocol on it.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose 138 looks impossible to someone who maybe reads one or two or none, but if I changed my reading habits from doomscrolling blogs and Substacks, I could probably hit that mark consistently.  Or at least once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Milwaukeean read 138 books this year. Which does he recommend? I mean, it&#8217;s ahead of me&#8211;I might end up with 90 this year if I read fast (my book year ends the week after Christmas, although I have been considering calling a lid on it when I finish my current book because, 2025, man). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34657","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=34657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34658,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34657\/revisions\/34658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}