{"id":707,"date":"2006-10-23T23:43:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T03:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/23\/clerisy-anonymous\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T23:44:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T03:44:54","slug":"clerisy-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/clerisy-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gentle Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Books are coming into my house much faster than I am reading them.<\/p>\n

Books very rarely go out of my house–I really, really try not to take in stuff that I won’t like well enough to keep, so it’s rare that something is inside that I am willing to part with.<\/p>\n

Obviously if things are coming in at a greater rate than they flow out, then the amount inside will grow. This has certainly been happening, and I am currently probably in need of about eighty linear feet of shelving just to get caught up… and I am almost out of rooms where I am allowed to put shelving. (Yes, I actually have the beginning of “stack” in my office–that is, I have some shelves arranged in the middle of the room in addition to the shelving all around the perimeter.)<\/p>\n

Even more distressing that this though, is the backlog in my “to be read” pile. I am also acquiring books much faster than I can read them.<\/p>\n

This is what my current “to be read” pile looks like:<\/p>\n

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Actually, that’s just the hardcovers. There are a couple of other stacks of trade paper and MMPB books elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I think I might have a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Books are coming into my house much faster than I am reading them. Books very rarely go out of my house–I really, really try not to take in stuff that I won’t like well enough to keep, so it’s rare that something is inside that I am willing to part with. Obviously if things are coming in at a greater… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-bp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}