{"id":167,"date":"2004-10-24T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T23:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/24\/book-deficiency-disorder"},"modified":"2004-10-24T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T19:38:14","slug":"book-deficiency-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/24\/book-deficiency-disorder","title":{"rendered":"Book deficiency disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reserved Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;Tommyknockers&#8221; at the library (there&#8217;s only one copy in the capital city area libraries) and the person who has it hasn&#8217;t returned it yet even though the due date was on the 18th. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_confused.gif\" alt=\":???:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> I don&#8217;t want to reserve any other book in case Tommyknockers arrives soon. (IT is available; Firestarter is nowhere to be found &#8212; in English that is; of Insomnia there&#8217;s one copy available, and the rest I&#8217;ve read.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to read now. I&#8217;ve almost read Salem&#8217;s Lot and with luck (i.e. noisy people on the bus which hardly is luck as such) it&#8217;ll last till I get home from work on Monday. But what next? I can&#8217;t carry <abbr title=\"DarkTower\">DT<\/abbr>VII with me cause the cover might get scratched <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_eek.gif\" alt=\":shock:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should think about broadening my horizon&#8230; Maybe some other author in the horror section might be able catch my attention. Koontz? Straub? J.K. Rowling?<br \/>\nBroadening outside horror?! Whoa, I&#8217;m not ready for *that* big a cultural shock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reserved Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;Tommyknockers&#8221; at the library (there&#8217;s only one copy in the capital city area libraries) and the person who has it hasn&#8217;t returned it yet even though the due date was on the 18th. I don&#8217;t want to reserve any other book in case Tommyknockers arrives soon. (IT is available; Firestarter is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}