{"id":25219,"date":"2014-11-03T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=25219"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:02:54","slug":"the-goodreads-awards-shameless-pandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/11\/03\/the-goodreads-awards-shameless-pandering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goodreads Awards: Shameless Pandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is once again that time of the year &#8212; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/choiceawards\/best-books-2014\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Goodreads Best Books of the Year awards have returned to the Web for 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. They of course contain a lot of really rad books (<strong>Annihilation<\/strong>! <strong>The Girl With All The Gifts<\/strong>! <strong>Cibola Burn<\/strong>!) Alongside some great authors (Marko Kloos, John Scalzi, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Laini Taylor, Laurie Halse Anderson, Stephanie Perkins, Richard Kadrey, Ann Leckie!).<\/p>\n<p>For my mileage, it&#8217;s also missing some super-good books, too.<\/p>\n<p>Where is Kameron Hurley&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Mirror Empire<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Or Lauren Beukes&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Broken Monsters<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Or Cherie Priest&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Maplecroft<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>So, this is also your annual reminder that during this first round (which runs until November 8th), you can write in candidates across the many categories.<\/p>\n<p>And this can also serve as your annual shameless tap-dancing by me where I casually elbow you in the throat and remind you that, hey, I might have some books that are\u00a0<em>eligible<\/em> for said write-ins, including\u00a0<strong>The Cormorant<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Blightborn<\/strong>. No pressure, of course. Except the pressure that reminds you that I actually physically die if I don&#8217;t get onto the Goodreads Awards every year, and my resurrection is always an ugly, viscera-caked mess, and nobody wants that. NOBODY.<\/p>\n<p>*stares*<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is, go vote for cool books.<\/p>\n<p>Because yay, books.<\/p>\n<p>*rises from the gore pit, screaming*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is once again that time of the year &#8212; the Goodreads Best Books of the Year awards have returned to the Web for 2014. They of course contain a lot of really rad books (Annihilation! The Girl With All The Gifts! Cibola Burn!) Alongside some great authors (Marko Kloos, John Scalzi, Jonathan Maberry, Scott [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-6yL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25221,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25219\/revisions\/25221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}