{"id":3409,"date":"2017-09-05T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2017-09-05T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:39:40","slug":"my-personal-edith-wharton-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=3409","title":{"rendered":"My personal Edith Wharton reading challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A phenomenon with which every reader is familiar: no matter how much you read, there will be nevertheless always important books and authors that you will miss. A reader&#8217;s life is too short even for compulsive readers like me to have a complete overview regarding all important books and authors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite this biological limitation, I am making an effort from time to time to fill in a few gaps; authors whose names are well-known to me and considered as important by authorities I usually trust; books that are on my personal TBR pile since a long time but which have constantly evaded my attention in the last moment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One such author is Edith Wharton, and since I have no less than five books by her on my shelves, I will read and review these books in the next weeks, and form my own opinion of this generally very well-reviewed author.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you read any of Edith Wharton&#8217;s books? Or are you willing to join this personal reading challenge of mine? If so, drop me a line here, or in the next weeks under one of my upcoming Edith Wharton blog posts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><strong>\u00a9 Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com, 2014-7. Unauthorized use and\/or duplication of this material without expressed and written permission from this blog\u2019s author and\/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><div class=\"dmrights_badge\">\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\tcatalogCode = \"AAA-1100-01\"\t\t\r\n \t\t<\/script> \r\n\t\t<div id=\"DMR-seal\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ipregistry_wp.dmrights.com\/dmr.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t\t<\/div><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phenomenon with which every reader is familiar: no matter how much you read, there will be nevertheless always important books and authors that you will miss. A reader&#8217;s life is too short even for compulsive readers like me to have a complete overview regarding all important books and authors. Despite this biological limitation, I [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1,131],"tags":[1081,896],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yNbb-SZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}