{"id":556,"date":"2016-05-24T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2016-05-24T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:47:14","slug":"top-ten-books-i-feel-differently-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"top ten; books i feel differently about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-457 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bookworm-things.jpg\" alt=\"bookworm things\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bookworm-things.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bookworm-things-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am going to be very honest. This post was rushed together because I had a difficult time coming up with a list. I&#8217;ve read so many books over the years that looking back at them and wondering if I feel the same about them now as I did when I read them is just &#8211; not so simple. I&#8217;ve been second-guessing my choices, and then realising I don&#8217;t think I have ten books? So I&#8217;ve just put a quick short list of books that I feel differently about since I&#8217;ve read them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> I almost forgot to link this back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokeandbookish.com\/p\/top-ten-tuesday-other-features.html\">The Broke And The Bookish<\/a>! Whoops.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-561 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/top-ten-tuesday-1.jpg\" alt=\"top ten tuesday\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/top-ten-tuesday-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/top-ten-tuesday-1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>Harry Potter<\/em> series. I still love it, that&#8217;s for sure, but over time, I have become a lot more critical about it. The lack of notable diversity in it definitely irks me whenever I think about it.<\/li>\n<li>Tamora Pierce&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/43551-circle-of-magic\"><em>Circle Of Magic<\/em><\/a> series, and some of her other works. The more I look back on it, the more I love her world-building. I want to read them ALL again. Or as many of them as I can get my hands on.<\/li>\n<li>Jodi Picoult&#8217;s novel with her daughter? <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/12283261-between-the-lines\">Between The Lines<\/a><\/em>. I want to read the next book, that&#8217;s for sure, but now when I look back on it, I feel it was a lot more simplistic than I thought when I was reading it. I think I loved the <strong>concept<\/strong> of it more than I actually loved the writing of it.<\/li>\n<li>I remember loving <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/162719.Just_Ella\">Just Ella<\/a><\/em> when I read it, but now that I look back on it, I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s as good as I remember. Maybe a reread is in order&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I have read Patricia C. Wrede&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/40390-enchanted-forest-chronicles\"><em>Dragons<\/em><\/a> series quite a few times since I first borrowed it from my cousins back when I was 11. I loved it back then, I loved it the second time around, I think I loved it even more the third time around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So this was a quick list that&#8217;s now done! I had very few ideas on what to put on this list. Because I tend to feel the same for most things I read over the years, I guess. I should do a reread of some books&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What are books you feel differently about now when you look back on them?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/signoff-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"2016-04-12 11:46\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/signoff-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/signoff-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/signoff-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/signoff-1200x592.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to be very honest. This post was rushed together because I had a difficult time coming up with a list. I&#8217;ve read so many books over the years that looking back at them and wondering if I feel the same about them now as I did when I read them is just &#8211; not so simple. I&#8217;ve been second-guessing my choices, and then realising I don&#8217;t think I have ten books? So I&#8217;ve just put a quick short list of books that I feel differently about since I&#8217;ve read them. Edit: I almost forgot to link this back to The Broke And The Bookish! Whoops. The Harry Potter series. I still love it, that&#8217;s for sure, but over time, I have become a lot more critical about it. The lack of notable diversity in it definitely irks me whenever I think about it. Tamora Pierce&#8217;s Circle Of Magic series, and some of her other works. The more I look back on it, the more I love her world-building. I want to read them ALL again. Or as many of them as I can get my hands on. Jodi Picoult&#8217;s novel with her daughter? Between The Lines. I want to read the next book, that&#8217;s for sure, but now when I look back on it, I feel it was a lot more simplistic than I thought when I was reading it. I think I loved the concept of it more than I actually loved the writing of it. I remember loving Just Ella when I read it, but now that I look back on it, I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s as good as I remember. Maybe a reread is in order&#8230; I have read Patricia C. Wrede&#8217;s Dragons series quite a few times since I first borrowed it from my cousins back when I was 11. I loved it back then, I loved it the second time around, I think I loved it even more the third time around. So this was a quick list that&#8217;s now done! I had very few ideas on what to put on this list. Because I tend to feel the same for most things I read over the years, I guess. I should do a reread of some books&#8230; What are books you feel differently about now when you look back on them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,101],"tags":[126,64,102,59],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-post","category-top-ten-tuesdays","tag-books-i-feel-differently-about","tag-discussion","tag-top-ten-tuesdays","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}