{"id":46778,"date":"2022-02-17T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46778"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:12:59","slug":"qotd-what-your-book-collection-says-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/02\/17\/qotd-what-your-book-collection-says-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: What your book collection says about you"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>One tweet noted that the loss of prominent book collections meant you couldn&#8217;t judge someone as easily as before. Another noted that book collections are a way of reminding ourselves of our own constructed identities &mdash; you look at the spines, note the authors and topics, and you are reminded of who you are, or rather who you wish to be at your best.<\/p>\n<p>Both are correct. It has been my experience over the years that if people have explicitly political \/ social books in abundance, they are not really interested in contrary observations, no matter how genially offered; criticize the citizens of the shelves and you are criticizing them in an intimate fashion. The oft-expressed desire for a &#8220;conversation&#8221; on these matters rarely results in such.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/19\/0119\/013019.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Bleat<\/em><\/a>, 2019-01-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One tweet noted that the loss of prominent book collections meant you couldn&#8217;t judge someone as easily as before. Another noted that book collections are a way of reminding ourselves of our own constructed identities &mdash; you look at the spines, note the authors and topics, and you are reminded of who you are, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[32,57,53,41],"tags":[86,139],"class_list":["post-46778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-criticism","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cau","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71762,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46778\/revisions\/71762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}