{"id":588,"date":"2009-01-12T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=588"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:12:05","slug":"i-knew-it-wasnt-just-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/i-knew-it-wasnt-just-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew it wasn&#8217;t just me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090216205708\/http:\/\/blog.islandpress.org\/283\/ann-vileisis-slow-food-for-thought-the-pleasures-of-a-big-fat-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Pleasures of a Big Fat Book<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Song-Dodo-Island-Biogeography-Extinction\/dp\/0684827123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Song of the Dodo<\/em><\/a> by David Quammen had been sitting on my to-read shelf for about three years. Even though I wanted to read it, I kept avoiding it because, frankly, it was so darned long. I kept choosing shorter books and a growing diet of internet hors d\u2019ouevres and snacks. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The sturdy hardback fell open in my hands in an easy way. The book\u2019s weighty body felt good to hold. I enjoyed the reader\u2019s ritual of choosing a lovely bookmark to hold my place as I progressed through the long work. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>It was as I read this hefty book that I realized my brain was entering a very different space. Rather than bopping around in a scattershot fashion, I was drawn to focus. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>In these fast-paced times, when readers\u2019 attention spans are shrinking like puddles in the sun, publishers say the market demands shorter and pithier books. Some even look ahead and wonder if books\u2019 days are numbered. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>To lose big books would be tragic. Reading a great fat book is a classic quality experience. There is nothing like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah.  What she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pleasures of a Big Fat Book The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen had been sitting on my to-read shelf for about three years. Even though I wanted to read it, I kept avoiding it because, frankly, it was so darned long. I kept choosing shorter books and a growing diet of internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17243,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/17243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}