{"id":504,"date":"2009-10-17T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:54:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:54:44","slug":"read-a-book-write-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Read a book, write a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>READ A BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/studentsschool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"Why Don't Students Like School?\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/studentsschool-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Why Don't Students Like School?\" width=\"143\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a> The other day I finished reading the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470279303?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wizardwalk-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0470279303\">Why Don&#8217;t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0470279303\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> and I put up some quotes from the book on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizardwalk.com\/bookquotes\/labels\/Why%20Don%27t%20Students%20Like%20School%3F.html\">Book Quotes blog<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a short read, only 165 pages.\u00a0 It\u2019s really meant for teachers, but as someone who is interested in our terrible American education system, I quite wanted to read it.\u00a0 It takes a psychological perspective on education, which would probably interest anyone interested in the basic psychology of learning.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s only 8th book I\u2019ve finished this year.\u00a0 I probably could\u2019ve read more by now, but I\u2019m reading about 8 more books simultaneously at the moment, so finishing one takes a lot longer.\u00a0 And of course sometimes I just give up on a book.\u00a0 I realized yesterday that I only finished reading one fiction book this year, the other seven were all non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRITE A BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still not sure whether or not I\u2019ll participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> next month.\u00a0 I have some fun new ideas floating around in my head, so it\u2019s quite tempting, but I do want to finish my album, obviously.\u00a0 I keep going back and forth.\u00a0 One day I\u2019ll think to myself \u201coh, I\u2019ve gotta at least try NaNoWriMo; this idea is just too exciting to resist,\u201d and then the next day I\u2019ll think, \u201cI can\u2019t do it, I\u2019ve gotta finish this album.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to have to worry about writing fiction too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I still don\u2019t know what I\u2019ll do.\u00a0 It will all depend on how I feel in November I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ A BOOK The other day I finished reading the book Why Don&#8217;t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom and I put up some quotes from the book on my Book Quotes blog.\u00a0 It was a [&hellip;]<\/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":[18,4],"tags":[140,26,139],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-88","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}