{"id":435,"date":"2004-05-24T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/24\/at-the-candy-counter\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:38","slug":"at-the-candy-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/24\/at-the-candy-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"At The Candy Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My beloved boyfriend occasionally teases me that I read too many boot-to-the-head books.  It&#8217;s true that I read a great deal of non-fiction; my thirst for learning is constant.  I do enjoy a good novel, but I tend to focus on &#8220;quality&#8221; novels rather than mass market or serials.  I made a list of all the award-winning fiction since the contests were established (Pulitzer, Booker, etc.) and have slowly worked my way through.  Some I like, others I don&#8217;t.  I&#8217;ve discovered that I am <em>not<\/em> a connoisseur of the short story &#8212; not enough there.  In any case, the boyfriend recently suggested for the umpteenth time that perhaps I ought to incorporate some light works into my reading diet.  Then a client mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smart.net\/~tak\/wodehouse.html\">P. G. Wodehouse<\/a>, of whom I&#8217;ve heard for years but never pursued.  He was recommended as an &#8220;author for a rainy day,&#8221; except that he&#8217;s prolific enough that one needn&#8217;t save him for just that.  So I gamboled off to the web and came across <a title=\"Amazon.com: Books Search Results: wodehouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-form\/ref=s_sf_b_as\/002-6145864-3468839\">a list of works<\/a> so big that I&#8217;m having trouble choosing.  If you&#8217;ve ever read his work, I welcome suggestions as to what book to pick up first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My beloved boyfriend occasionally teases me that I read too many boot-to-the-head books. It&#8217;s true that I read a great deal of non-fiction; my thirst for learning is constant. I do enjoy a good novel, but I tend to focus on &#8220;quality&#8221; novels rather than mass market or serials. I made a list of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12929,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/12929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}