{"id":29498,"date":"2015-06-26T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29498"},"modified":"2015-06-24T22:33:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T10:33:01","slug":"reading-when-the-chips-are-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/reading-when-the-chips-are-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading When The Chips Are Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"USA\"<\/a>

USA<\/p><\/div>\n

The copyedit chips that is, in this particular case.<\/p>\n

But, in fact, the same principle applies when any big writing push is going down. Whenever I snatch a few moments r’n’r, there’s a good chance that I may want to spend it with a book.<\/p>\n

But not\u00a0 a new book, that may demand and insist I keep reading to find out what happens.<\/p>\n

In my few precious moments away from a project like a copyedit, I want a book where I know what happens so can just enjoy the company of old friends, reacquaint myself with an already familiar landscape—and can easily put it down where the break is over.<\/p>\n

\"UK\/AU\/NZ\"<\/a>

UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n

The book that’s currently keeping me copyedit company is a newer favourite, Kristen Cashore’s Bitterblue<\/em><\/strong>. And I\u00a0 am really enjoying the small bites approach and paying attention to the fine detail of just how good a story it is.<\/p>\n

How about you—what are you reading right now, or hope to get into over the weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The copyedit chips that is, in this particular case. But, in fact, the same principle applies when any big writing push is going down. Whenever I snatch a few moments r’n’r, there’s a good chance that I may want to spend it with a book. But not\u00a0 a new book, that may demand and insist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29500,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498\/revisions\/29500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}