{"id":1,"date":"2024-12-29T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:33:04","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"My 2025 Book Stack: Excited and Overwhelmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Between my birthday in November and Christmas this month (plus some books I didn&#8217;t get to in 2024), I am fully stocked on books to start 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s feels both exciting, yet overwhelming. On one hand, I love having a big stack of books ready to read. On the other hand,  it&#8217;s overwhelming because I know this will probably take me through the Fall. And let&#8217;s be honest \u2014 new releases and recommendations from friends will pop up and bump some of these further down my to-read list. (The eternal bookworm struggle!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, I can&#8217;t wait to dive in. There\u2019s something comforting about having a full bookshelf at the start of the year\u2014it feels like possibility and adventure waiting to be opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2728 <strong>What about you?<\/strong><br>What\u2019s at the top of your book stack for 2025?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241226_195409691-Copy-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241226_195409691-Copy-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241226_195409691-Copy-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241226_195409691-Copy-768x1021.jpg 768w, http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241226_195409691-Copy.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between my birthday in November and Christmas this month (plus some books I didn&#8217;t get to in 2024), I am fully stocked on books to start 2025. It&#8217;s feels both exciting, yet overwhelming. On one hand, I love having a big stack of books ready to read. On the other hand, it&#8217;s overwhelming because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-be-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/readersgottaread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}