{"id":723,"date":"2008-03-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2008-03-01T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T16:59:00","slug":"by-this-i-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"By This I Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/pics\/lter_small_tan.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/pics\/lter_small_tan.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>As you may <a href=\"http:\/\/bastart.blogspot.com\/2007_11_01_archive.html\">remember<\/a>, I participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">Librarything<\/a>&#8216;s Early Reviewers program.  The latest book I received, <a href=\"http:\/\/the13threality.com\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The 13th Reality<\/span><\/a>, makes two books I&#8217;ve received and two books I really did not like.  My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/4407732\/edit\/26729693\">review<\/a> of the book was downright mean &#8212; it actually made me angry to read this thing, and I opted to shelve my trademark diplomatic demeanor and have at it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the author wasn&#8217;t so keen on that.  His response is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/profile.php?view=mimsy_jess\">here<\/a>, at the bottom of the page.  I would have preferred something more along the lines of &#8220;shut up, you prick&#8221;, but instead it looks as if I actually hurt the guy.  Guilt, oh yes I feel it.<\/p>\n<p>I must respond in some fashion, but I certainly will not retract my statements.  It would appear most readers disagree with me, as the average rating is 3.78 out of 4 on LT and 5 out of 5 on Amazon, so I assume he can take some solace in that.<\/p>\n<p>My forays into Young Adult fiction have been fairly limited, but I get the sense that most readers are grown-ups who forgive poor writing because the target audience is teenagers.  I suppose my problem is that I expect everything to be good, that I rank books on a universal scale rather than one limited to genre or intent.  Perhaps an approach closer to &#8220;it&#8217;s OK, if you like that kind of thing&#8221; would be a better.<\/p>\n<p>Nah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may remember, I participate in Librarything&#8216;s Early Reviewers program. The latest book I received, The 13th Reality, makes two books I&#8217;ve received and two books I really did not like. My review of the book was downright mean &#8212; it actually made me angry to read this thing, and I opted to shelve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lt-early-reviewer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}