{"id":878,"date":"2007-05-27T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2007-05-27T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T20:14:00","slug":"the-book-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"The Book Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

Following the example set by Steve Bodio<\/a> and others, here is my current book pile: part of what I am reading (for research, for reviewing, for pleasure) and in the case of Pharmakognosis<\/em><\/a>, re-reading.<\/p>\n

I invite my blogging readers to post their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the example set by Steve Bodio and others, here is my current book pile: part of what I am reading (for research, for reviewing, for pleasure) and in the case of Pharmakognosis, re-reading. I invite my blogging readers to post their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,57],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ea","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=880","url_meta":{"origin":878,"position":0},"title":"More Book Piles","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"what I am reading\" book pile challenge is taken up by Anne Hill and Victoria Slind-Flor.UPDATE: One more, from Daven's Journal.","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":886,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=886","url_meta":{"origin":878,"position":1},"title":"Five (Really More) Thinking Bloggers","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Erik at Executive Pagan tagged me with the \"Thinking Blogger\" meme. That's fair enough, since I hit him with the \"book pile photo thing.\" (Mine's here.)In fact, I read one of his links too: Rod \"Crunchy Con\" Dreher.So, setting aside the uber-bloggers like Glenn Reynolds, here are five who make\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7025,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7025","url_meta":{"origin":878,"position":2},"title":"The Scholar’s Mistress","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I learnt a new expression late last year: \"the scholar's mistress.\" What it means is the pile of books that accumulate beside the bed, books that you are reading, plan to read, ought to have read, might read again. At my house, the dog's kennel does for a nightstand. 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