{"id":4038,"date":"2018-04-04T02:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2018-04-04T20:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:45:32","slug":"the-luxury-of-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"The Luxury of Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few blog entries ago, I had written about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=4029\">joy of reading fiction<\/a> books. But these days, I would also say that reading fiction books has become a luxury for me. Due to time constraints, I can no longer spend much time on books that transport me to fantasy worlds or to a time and place that now exist only in history.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the majority of the books I&#8217;ve been reading are non-fiction books on personal finance and self-improvement. A sample of the titles of the books I read last year and ones I&#8217;ve read this year will illustrate the situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Investors: How to Invest for Profit in Today&#8217;s Changing Markets by Peter Sander<\/li>\n<li>The Barefoot Investor 2017 Update: The Only Money Guide You&#8217;ll Ever Need by Scott Pape<\/li>\n<li>Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande<\/li>\n<li>Millionaire Women Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You get the idea; I&#8217;m making up for lost time because I was utterly clueless about personal investments until about three years ago. It was then that I started to realise that I should seriously start planning for my old age, now that I have already hit middle age! My job also requires me to have some basic knowledge of financial terms in order to do my job better.<\/p>\n<p>I have also been reading more self-improvement books because I am constantly looking for ways to do things better or just have an awareness of different ideas that others have that I may learn from. I feel like I have to be realistic and pragmatic about what I spend time reading \u2013 fiction has therefore become a luxury only to be enjoyed occasionally. Somewhat sad but true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few blog entries ago, I had written about the joy of reading fiction books. But these days, I would also say that reading fiction books has become a luxury for me. Due to time constraints, I can no longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=4038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}