{"id":419,"date":"2005-01-18T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslick.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2005-01-18T01:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T17:18:00","slug":"bookworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Bookworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silexbooks.com.tw\/\">Silex Books<\/a> today.  I signed up for a vip card back in October and they sent me email about it way back then to come pick it up, but I hadn&#8217;t gotten around to it.  Silex used to be the only place in Taipei you could find a decent selection of Science Fiction books in English.  Now we have Page One in the tallest building in the world which has a bit better Science Fiction selection, but they are a lot more expensive.  Silex&#8217;s main specialty is children to young adult books in English, but they also have a pretty nice Science Fiction section upstairs, and their prices are much more reasonable compared to Page One.  Anyways, it turns out they are having a bit of a clearance sale, so I was able to pick up a bunch of books for TWD99 and TWD149 each (that&#8217;s about $3 and $5 in US dollars).  So, um, now I&#8217;m even more behind in my reading.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back the bus driver had the AC on.  That&#8217;s one thing I still can&#8217;t understand in Taiwan.  It&#8217;s 15C out, so why the hell do you need the AC on?  I wish air conditioners would come with an automatic cutoff when it is below 20C, cause there&#8217;s no reason to have it on anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went down to Silex Books today. I signed up for a vip card back in October and they sent me email about it way back then to come pick it up, but I hadn&#8217;t gotten around to it. Silex used to be the only place in Taipei you could find a decent selection of Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bookworm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}