{"id":22223,"date":"2026-02-26T21:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22223"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:47:45","slug":"booktally-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22223","title":{"rendered":"Booktally Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nonesuchIMGP0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nonesuchIMGP0001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nonesuchIMGP0001-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?tag=booktally\">Booktally Day<\/a>! Since we started counting we have read 3390 books; a mere 240 up on last year, but many of them were enormous, eg <em>IT<\/em>, <em>ICE<\/em> and assorted Neal Stephensons.<br \/>\nOut today is <em>Nonesuch<\/em> by Francis Spufford (see above) which A2 is about to read. A1 has just started rereading <em>House of Suns<\/em> by Alastair Reynolds so he&#8217;ll have to wait his turn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Booktally Day! Since we started counting we have read 3390 books; a mere 240 up on last year, but many of them were enormous, eg IT, ICE and assorted Neal Stephensons. Out today is Nonesuch by Francis Spufford (see above) which A2 is about to read. A1 has just started rereading House of Suns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Booktally Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[19,20,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22228,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions\/22228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}