{"id":691,"date":"2009-03-20T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/too-many-books-and-not-enough-time.html"},"modified":"2009-03-20T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T11:10:00","slug":"too-many-books-and-not-enough-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/too-many-books-and-not-enough-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Books And Not Enough Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most people reading this blog know about the book giveaways that I do each month. Sometimes, I wish I could actually read ALL of the books that I give away, but I just don’t have the time! I’m a member of the Heartsong Presents Bookclub<\/a>, and I also received the Heartsong Presents Mysteries before they canceled that book club. In addition to those books, I purchase novels from the Family Christian Bookstore, or Barnes and Noble whenever I take my family into the Bowie area to get their haircuts. I also purchase novels from Amazon.com fairly frequently. When I give books away on my blog, or when I give them to friends and family, and I haven’t read the book, I may feel a little wistful. Am I missing a good story? Should I have read that book? I can’t keep all the books that I buy because I simply don’t have room in this house to keep them all! Plus, I get a number of free books each year from authors and publishers when I agree to do book reviews for them on this blog!<\/p>\n

Do any of you feel kind of sad or wistful when you get rid of books that you haven’t read? Do you read the first few pages of a book before you give it away to make sure you’re not missing a great story? When I get rid of my books, I think of the way kids act when they don’t want to go to sleep – they’re afraid that they’re going miss something. Do you think you’re missing something when you get rid of unread books?<\/p>\n

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~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people reading this blog know about the book giveaways that I do each month. Sometimes, I wish I could actually read ALL of the books that I give away, but I just don’t have the time! I’m a member of the Heartsong Presents Bookclub, and I also received the Heartsong Presents Mysteries before they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}