{"id":1319,"date":"2011-06-09T00:14:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/09\/watch-this-whatcha-reading\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T23:59:39","slug":"watch-this-whatcha-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/09\/watch-this-whatcha-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch This: Whatcha Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eD2GSjfDvhw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on the advisory board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">inReads.com<\/a>, a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153social readia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d networking site which is exploring the ways that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re using technology to read and to share what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re reading with others, and along with telling them what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m seeing through my own experiences and what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hearing when I talk to others about the contemporary American reading culture, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve created an interview series called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whatcha Reading?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The premise is simple: I find an author, and I get them to talk for a minute or two about a book that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve recently read that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d recommend to other people. (Or, sometime, it might be a perennial recommendation, that classic book you always want to talk about whenever somebody asks you what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already posted the first two installments in the series; above, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inreads.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/web-series-whatcha-reading-allison-amend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allison Amend praises <i>A Visit from the Goon Squad<\/i><\/a>, and before that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inreads.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/web-series-whatcha-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helon Habila recommended <i>The Memory of Love<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mqsfK1-_3Q4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to getting more recommendations from authors in the weeks and months to come; in fact, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m headed to a bookstore tonight where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping to meet several writers and convince them to participate in the series. For now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m somewhat limited to those writers who live in New York City or are coming through town on their book tours, but I do get to travel occasionally, and the great thing about taping these interviews on a Flip camera is that I really can do them just about anywhere. This is no particular insight, but most of the great writers I know are as passionate about reading as they are about writing, so it can be enlightening to learn about the books that get them excited about books. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m fortunate enough to be in a position not just to talk to writers about the books they love, but to share what they tell me with other readers, and if these short videos inspire even just one person each week to pick up the book that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being discussed, then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m giving us all credit for a win. inReads is currently in beta, but its full social networking functionality should be up and running later this month, and in the meantime there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of content for you to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on the advisory board of inReads.com, a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153social readia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d networking site which is exploring the ways that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re using technology to read and to share what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re reading with others, and along with telling them what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m seeing through my own experiences and what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hearing when I talk to others about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[38,37,36,35,39,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}