{"id":771,"date":"2009-01-28T23:04:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2010-06-12T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T00:06:39","slug":"books-read-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Books Read in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time I resisted posting book reviews here because I was afraid of being pigeonholed.\u00c2\u00a0 Nearly all of my publications are reviews but that is just one venue I use for my writing.\u00c2\u00a0 It appears my reviews bring readers to my site but hopefully they find more when they start looking around.<\/p>\n

Here is my list of books read in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 I only began keeping track in July so I read more than 34 books but I couldn’t remember all of them.\u00c2\u00a0 If there is a book review published here or elsewhere, I’ve included the link for it.\u00c2\u00a0 The bolded ones are my favorites.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Woman’s Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives – Pam Houston and Megan McMorris<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The Unseen<\/a> – T.C. McMullen<\/li>\n
  3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<\/a> – Robert Mack<\/li>\n
  4. ErRatic – N.D. Hansen-Hill<\/li>\n
  5. About Alice<\/a> – Calvin Trillin<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli<\/a> – Ginetta Correli<\/li>\n
  7. Gimp: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand You Can Fold – Or You Can Play – Mark Zupan with Tim Swanson<\/li>\n
  8. The Hunters – Claire Messud<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Red Ant House – Ann Cummins<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas For Your Blog – Margaret Mason<\/li>\n
  11. The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelancing<\/a> – Diana Burrell and Linda Formichelli<\/li>\n
  12. Heat<\/a> – Bill Buford<\/li>\n
  13. Twilight<\/a> – Stephenie Meyer<\/li>\n
  14. The Rule of Four<\/a> – Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason<\/li>\n
  15. Born Standing Up: A Comics Life<\/a> – Steve Martin<\/li>\n
  16. The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock: The Freelance Writer’s Guide to Selling More Work Faster – Diana Burrell and Linda Formichelli<\/li>\n
  17. Faceless Killers<\/a> – Henning Mankell<\/li>\n
  18. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name – Vendela Vida<\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. Greywalker<\/a> – Kat Richardson<\/li>\n
  20. New Moon<\/a> – Stephenie Meyer<\/li>\n
  21. Eclipse<\/a> – Stephenie Meyer<\/li>\n
  22. Breaking Dawn<\/a> – Stephenie Meyer<\/li>\n
  23. Poltergeist<\/a> – Kat Richardson<\/li>\n
  24. The Jane Austen Book Club<\/a> – Karen Joy Fowler<\/li>\n
  25. In The Night Kitchen<\/a> – Maurice Sendak<\/li>\n
  26. The Headless Cupid<\/a> – Zilpha Keatley Snyder<\/li>\n
  27. The Good German<\/a> – Joseph Kanon<\/li>\n
  28. Dirt: An American Campaign<\/a> – Mark LaFlamme<\/li>\n
  29. Any Given Doomsday<\/a> – Lori Handeland<\/li>\n
  30. Ever – Gail Carson Levine<\/li>\n
  31. Sarah’s Key<\/a> – Tatiana de Rosnay<\/li>\n
  32. The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection<\/a> – Michael Ruhlman<\/li>\n
  33. Things the Grandchildren Should Know<\/a> – Michael Oliver Everett<\/li>\n
  34. Sweetsmoke<\/a> – David Fuller<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For a long time I resisted posting book reviews here because I was afraid of being pigeonholed.\u00c2\u00a0 Nearly all of my publications are reviews but that is just one venue I use for my writing.\u00c2\u00a0 It appears my reviews bring readers to my site but hopefully they find more when they start looking around. Here… Continue reading Books Read in 2008<\/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":[24],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","category-tally","tag-book","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}