{"id":1399250,"date":"2019-11-07T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1399250"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:23:38","slug":"all-the-books-on-your-english-syllabus-summed-up-in-pie-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/all-the-books-on-your-english-syllabus-summed-up-in-pie-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Books on Your English Syllabus Summed Up in Pie Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/aug17summeduppiechartsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\"><\/p>\n<p>Here at SparkNotes, our stance on books has always been favorable. We like them. We think they&#8217;re great. We&#8217;re book lovers first, and human beings second. But this doesn&#8217;t change the fact that some books are long, unwieldy, and difficult to start (but easy to let languish unread in your backpack).<\/p>\n<p>You know what makes things easier? Ignoring your responsibilities and just hoping it all works out, yes, but also <i>pie charts<\/i>. Pie charts make things easier. Everything seems less daunting in a brightly colored chart backed up by math. For instance, a pie chart of my life would indicate that I spend 20% of my time binge-watching reality cooking shows, 30% standing in someone&#8217;s way at the grocery store, and 50% switching between apps on my phone. Taken on its own, this information is both alarming and pathetic. Put it in a pie chart, however, and it&#8217;s not so bad. In fact, it&#8217;s downright delightful.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s no reason this same logic won&#8217;t also apply to books. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re taking all the books you&#8217;ll have to suffer through&nbsp;this year and&nbsp;breaking them down&nbsp;with (EXTREMELY) scientific data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at SparkNotes, our stance on books has always been favorable. We like them. We think they&#8217;re great. We&#8217;re book lovers first, and human beings second. But this doesn&#8217;t change the fact that some books   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,628,2335,666,25017,818,9554,756,949,694,1764,23323,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399250"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441611,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399250\/revisions\/1441611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}