{"id":15624,"date":"2016-02-05T23:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T22:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15624"},"modified":"2016-02-05T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T22:33:19","slug":"what-reading-makes-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15624","title":{"rendered":"What Reading Makes of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16020502.jpg\" alt=\"What Reading Makes of Us\" \/><br \/>\nMark Thornton from Mostly Books gave a talk called &#8216;What Reading Makes of Us &#8211; The Power of Stories to Shape Our Realities&#8217; to the sixth formers at Abingdon School last year.<\/p>\n<p>Annabel persuaded him to write it up into essay form for Shiny New Books &#8211; the literary magazine website she co-edits with several book-blogging friends.<\/p>\n<p>It begins &#8216;<i>This is my tenth year of being an independent bookseller \u2013 the equivalent of thirty years in any other business I reckon. Over time, casual conversations with friends, family and random strangers outside the shop have morphed from the questions like \u201cYou\u2019ve started an independent bookshop, are you mad?\u201d to \u201cHow on Earth do you survive against Amazon?\u201d.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The link to Mark&#8217;s full piece is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161215083847\/http:\/\/shinynewbooks.co.uk\/bookbuzz08\/what-reading-makes-of-us-the-power-of-stories-to-shape-our-realities-an-essay\/\">http:\/\/shinynewbooks.co.uk\/bookbuzz08\/what-reading-makes-of-us-the-power-of-stories-to-shape-our-realities-an-essay\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Thornton from Mostly Books gave a talk called &#8216;What Reading Makes of Us &#8211; The Power of Stories to Shape Our Realities&#8217; to the sixth formers at Abingdon School last year. Annabel persuaded him to write it up into essay form for Shiny New Books &#8211; the literary magazine website she co-edits with several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}