{"id":3033,"date":"2011-01-10T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2011-02-08T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T05:22:09","slug":"my-favorite-reads-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Reads of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I read over 60 books and surprisingly, my top five favorites were read mostly at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, I didn&#8217;t write reviews of all of them.\u00c2\u00a0 For the ones that don&#8217;t have reviews, I&#8217;ll be writing those later this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Not all of\u00c2\u00a0my favorite reads\u00c2\u00a0were released in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 My husband will be surprised Stieg Larsson&#8217;s Millennium Trilogy didn&#8217;t make the list and I&#8217;m a little surprised too.\u00c2\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t books I wanted to force into people&#8217;s hands to read although they certainly have tweaked my perspective about Sweden a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are in the order I read them:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3047\"><em>The Outlander<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Gil Adamson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2888\"><em>Spellbent<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Lucy A. Snyder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"www.amberstults.com\/?p=2254\"><em>One Good Turn<\/em><\/a> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3042\"><em>Little Bee: A Novel<\/em><\/a> by Chris Cleave<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2341\"><em>When Will There Be Good News?<\/em><\/a> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t set out to do any challenges this year but I did want to read <em>Reading Like a Writer<\/em> by Francine Prose.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been sitting on my TBR pile since December 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 I failed but will definitely read it this year.\u00c2\u00a0 How can I write that with confidence?\u00c2\u00a0 Because I started reading it two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>What were your favorite reads this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I read over 60 books and surprisingly, my top five favorites were read mostly at the beginning of the year. Not surprisingly, I didn&#8217;t write reviews of all of them.\u00c2\u00a0 For the ones that don&#8217;t have reviews, I&#8217;ll be writing those later this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Not all of\u00c2\u00a0my favorite reads\u00c2\u00a0were released in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 My&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3033\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Favorite Reads of 2010<\/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":[3,11],"tags":[425,427,227,424,297,228,298,426,238],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","category-tally","tag-chris-cleave","tag-gil-adamson","tag-kate-atkinson","tag-little-bee-a-novel","tag-lucy-a-snyder","tag-one-good-turn","tag-spellbent","tag-the-outlander","tag-when-will-there-be-good-news","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}