{"id":2000,"date":"2012-07-23T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2012-07-23T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:40:53","slug":"read-anything-good-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/read-anything-good-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Anything Good Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read for fun.\u00a0 I love to drop into a good story or follow a curious argument.\u00a0 Some books I devour fast, like a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, and some I savor slowly, like the chocolate cappuccino brownies my sister made lately with my daughter, two nieces and two nephews. \u00a0The one I ate was rich, smooth, full of careful love, and I can still taste it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2001\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/2319843?shelf=read\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2001\" title=\"Goodreads10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Goodreads10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Goodreads10.png 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Goodreads10-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s easy and free to catalogue your library on Goodreads.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My favorite place to read?\u00a0 The hammock in my front yard by day, my living room couch with a good lamp by evening, and my bed with many pillows by night.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/2319843?shelf=read\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a>, where I can keep a running list of books I\u2019ve read and want to read.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to see what others are recommending, too, and join conversations about favorite books.<\/p>\n<p>Since I abandon books that don\u2019t interest me, the ones I finish are all books I like.\u00a0 The last ten books I read or reread are:<\/p>\n<p>Julia Quinn, <em>What Happens in London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Light-hearted romance of spies.)<\/p>\n<p>Trish Doller, <em>Something Like Normal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(A young Marine comes home from war.)<\/p>\n<p>Veronica Roth, <em>Divergent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(A teen girl trains as Dauntless.)<\/p>\n<p>Emmy Laybourne, <em>Monument 14<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Kids hole up in a store to survive disaster.)<\/p>\n<p>Genn Albin, <em>Crewel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(A teen girl learns to spin time and matter.)<\/p>\n<p>Philippa Gregory, <em>The Other Boleyn Girl<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Mary Boleyn serves as mistress to Henry VIII.)<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Goldsmith, <em>The Bestseller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Dishy, gossipy tale of publishing in the 90&#8217;s.)<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer R. Hubbard, <em>Try Not to Breathe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Teen boy adjusts after discharge from psych residence.)<\/p>\n<p>Julia Glass, <em>The Widower\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Cranky, old guy allows preschool in his barn.)<\/p>\n<p>Lois Lowry, <em>The Giver<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Boy starts to see red in colorless dystopia.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read for fun.\u00a0 I love to drop into a good story or follow a curious argument.\u00a0 Some books I devour fast, like a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, and some I savor slowly, like the chocolate cappuccino brownies my sister made lately with my daughter, two nieces and two nephews. \u00a0The one I ate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,160],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-libraries","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}