{"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":"

Last year I read over 60 books and surprisingly, my top five favorites were read mostly at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, I didn’t write reviews of all of them.\u00c2\u00a0 For the ones that don’t have reviews, I’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’s Millennium Trilogy didn’t make the list and I’m a little surprised too.\u00c2\u00a0 They weren’t books I wanted to force into people’s hands to read although they certainly have tweaked my perspective about Sweden a bit.<\/p>\n

Here they are in the order I read them:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Outlander<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Gil Adamson<\/li>\n
  2. Spellbent<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Lucy A. Snyder<\/li>\n
  3. One Good Turn<\/em><\/a> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n
  4. Little Bee: A Novel<\/em><\/a> by Chris Cleave<\/li>\n
  5. When Will There Be Good News?<\/em><\/a> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I didn’t set out to do any challenges this year but I did want to read Reading Like a Writer<\/em> by Francine Prose.\u00c2\u00a0 It’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

    What were your favorite reads this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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’t write reviews of all of them.\u00c2\u00a0 For the ones that don’t have reviews, I’ll be writing those later this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Not all of\u00c2\u00a0my favorite reads\u00c2\u00a0were released in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 My… Continue reading 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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t