{"id":45617,"date":"2025-08-10T22:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45617"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:38:06","slug":"my-new-list-book-talking-with-sondy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45617","title":{"rendered":"My New List &#8211; Book Talking with Sondy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sondraeklund.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sondraeklund.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"158\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45618\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m adding a new email list!<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been posting reviews almost every day.  It was a couple years ago when I realized how behind I was &#8211; I had 270 reviews written but not posted.  Since then, I&#8217;ve been working hard to catch up &#8211; and as of this moment, I have only 61 reviews written but not posted.  The oldest ones of those are debut novels I read in 2023 but couldn&#8217;t post reviews for until after our winners had been announced.  I&#8217;m alternating posting those older reviews with newer ones.<\/p>\n<p>All this is to say:  I understand if you don&#8217;t want email in your inbox every day.  So I&#8217;ve made a new list, <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?page_id=23\">Book Talking with Sondy<\/a>.  My plan is to send emails only once or twice a month.  While the list is small, I&#8217;d like to do some back-and-forth book recommendations &#8211; you can tell me book you enjoyed recently on the form.  I will talk about my reading for the last month and what I&#8217;m looking forward to reading next, plus some Library insider and award committee scoops (without giving anything away!) and general talk about books.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping this will give me better connections with my readers, and I&#8217;m looking forward to more interactions.<\/p>\n<p>And meanwhile, check out my revised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/info.html\">About page<\/a>, highlighting the new subscription options.<\/p>\n<p>Who will be the first to sign up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m adding a new email list! Lately, I&#8217;ve been posting reviews almost every day. It was a couple years ago when I realized how behind I was &#8211; I had 270 reviews written but not posted. Since then, I&#8217;ve been working hard to catch up &#8211; and as of this moment, I have only 61 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45619,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45617\/revisions\/45619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}