{"id":24609,"date":"2026-06-22T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24609"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:08:59","slug":"reading-report-june-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24609","title":{"rendered":"Reading Report: June 22, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished <em>The Land and Its People<\/em> by David Sedaris, and because the humor was working for me, I ordered a few more of his books. I also ordered <em>The Other Bennet Sister<\/em> because I was curious about the book that had inspired the TV series. I&#8217;m sure there are oodles of other books I <em>should<\/em> be reading, starting with the ones already on my shelves and including the many brilliant classics that I haven&#8217;t yet tackled, but I gotta go where my feelings are taking me right now. I&#8217;ve struggled a lot recently to find books to keep my interest, and I don&#8217;t want to risk entirely losing my ability to focus on reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently reading: <em>The Book of Earth (Dragon Quartet, Vol. One)<\/em> by Marjorie B. Kellogg, a fantasy novel from 1995. It&#8217;s a cheap, secondhand paperback. I have no great expectations from it, so hopefully it can cause no great disappointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished The Land and Its People by David Sedaris, and because the humor was working for me, I ordered a few more of his books. I also ordered The Other Bennet Sister because I was curious about the book &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24610,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24609\/revisions\/24610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}