{"id":8828,"date":"2011-01-12T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2011-01-12T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:23:05","slug":"its-not-a-book-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/its-not-a-book-list\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not A Book List"},"content":{"rendered":"

TJIC linked<\/a> to a Web site that would identify the New York Times<\/em> Best Sellers on the day you were born.<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s not just a book list; it’s a book challenge. How many of the books that were best sellers when you were born have you read?<\/em><\/p>\n

The list from my birth date<\/a> (books I’ve read in italics): <\/p>\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. THE WINDS OF WAR Herman Wouk<\/li>\n
  2. WHEELS Alex Hailey<\/li>\n
  3. THE DAY OF THE JACKAL Frederick Forsyth<\/li>\n
  4. THE EXORCIST William Peter Blatty <\/li>\n
  5. RABBIT REDUX John Updike <\/li>\n
  6. THE BETSY Harold Robbins <\/li>\n
  7. MESSAGE FROM MALAGA Helen MacInnes <\/em><\/li>\n
  8. OUR GANG Philip Roth <\/li>\n
  9. NEMESIS Agatha Christie <\/li>\n
  10. THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER John Le Carr\u00e9 <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. ELEANOR AND FRANKLIN Joseph P. Lash <\/li>\n
    2. TRACY AND HEPBURN Garson Kanin <\/li>\n
    3. BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE Dee Brown <\/li>\n
    4. THE DEFENSE NEVER RESTS F. Lee Bailey<\/em> <\/li>\n
    5. THE GAME OF THE FOXES Ladislas Farago <\/li>\n
    6. JENNIE VOLUME TWO, Ralph G. Martin <\/li>\n
    7. HONOR THY FATHER Gay Talese <\/li>\n
    8. THE LAST WHOLE EARTH CATALOG Portola Institute <\/li>\n
    9. BRIAN PICCOLO: A SHORT SEASON Jeannie Morris <\/li>\n
    10. BEYOND FREEDOM AND DIGNITY B. F. Skinner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Strangely enough, I read the same percentage (10%) of TJIC’s list, and they’re different books. Also, I have not identified the books I already own but have not yet read because, frankly, there are so many that I can never be sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      TJIC linked to a Web site that would identify the New York Times Best Sellers on the day you were born. Of course, it’s not just a book list; it’s a book challenge. How many of the books that were best sellers when you were born have you read? The list from my birth date […]<\/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-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","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=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8833,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}