{"id":15,"date":"2006-01-29T19:29:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=15"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:12:29","slug":"4_23_trip_to_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/01\/4_23_trip_to_th.html","title":{"rendered":"$4.23 Trip to the Bookstore."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally spent the gift certificate my boss gave me for Christmas.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li><b>She Got Up off the Couch, by Haven Kimmel.<\/b> She&#8217;s an automatic &#8220;buy in hardcover&#8221; for me now, after reading all 3 of her previous books. She&#8217;s a magician.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Thin Place, by Kathryn Davis.<\/b> I hear nothing but raves, Raves, RAVES about this one. Hopefully going to hear her read on the 16th, depending on work schedule. Can&#8217;t wait to read this. (Have also heard great things about a previous book &#8220;Girl Who Trod on a Loaf&#8221;.)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Accidental Tourist, by Ali Smith.<\/b> If it&#8217;s going to win every award known to man, I will want to have read it. Won&#8217;t you?<\/li>\n<li><b>Man Walks into a Room, by Nicole Krauss<\/b>. Because &#8220;History of Love&#8221; was one of the two best books I read last year. Magical. Potent. Heartbreaking. I expect nothing less of this one.<\/li>\n<li><b>13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, by Jane Smiley<\/b>. Randomly read a few pages, here and there, of this on a few different trips to the bookstore. Think it will give me an even longer (if that&#8217;s possible) list of &#8220;SHOULD have read long ago, must get to now&#8221; books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, a nice afternoon. Other than the studying, and class, and workshop, and studying. New episode of Grey&#8217;s tonight. Yea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally spent the gift certificate my boss gave me for Christmas. She Got Up off the Couch, by Haven Kimmel. She&#8217;s an automatic &#8220;buy in hardcover&#8221; for me now, after reading all 3 of her previous books. She&#8217;s a magician. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/01\/4_23_trip_to_th.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3776,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}