{"id":2818,"date":"2019-10-08T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2019-10-11T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:47:13","slug":"challenge-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/challenge-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Completed!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As October rumbles on, I’m excited to have finished my reading challenge for the year. I decided to aim for 125 books back in January – not knowing then that I’d spend some time off work, and return to work for a publisher! Those two factors have of course made it\u00a0easier<\/em> to read a larger number of books than average, but I’d suggest that a few other things have also helped.<\/p>\n I’d reiterate that a few months of time off work, and working for a publisher since September, do mean that I’m in a privileged position regarding both reading time and access to books. But I hope these five points are helpful for thinking about reading more generally – whether you want to read more, read differently, or start reading! (Obviously audiobooks would have increased this further – but I personally don’t really like them. Each to their own!)<\/p>\n If you are particularly bored\/interested, you can see what I read over at my goodreads profile<\/a>. I now need to catch up on a backlog of reviews…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As October rumbles on, I’m excited to have finished my reading challenge for the year. I decided to aim for 125 books back in January – not knowing then that I’d spend some time off work, and return to work … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[554,606],"tags":[610,980,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n