{"id":2455,"date":"2012-01-06T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2012-01-06T19:41:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T01:41:20","slug":"wrapping-it-up-favorite-books-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/01\/wrapping-it-up-favorite-books-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping It Up: Favorite Books 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My top six very favorite books read during 2011 were (not in any order) <strong>&#8220;Wonderstruck&#8221; by Brian Selznick<\/strong>, <strong>Love Is the Higher Law, by David Levithan<\/strong>, <strong>&#8220;State of Wonder&#8221; by Ann Patchett<\/strong>, <strong>&#8220;36 Arguments for the Existence of God&#8221;, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein<\/strong> (that&#8217;s fiction, despite its non-fiction-like sounding title), <strong>&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Milk&#8221; by Edward St. Aubyn<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter&#8221; by Tom Franklin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2012\/01\/post.html\">final list of books read for 2011 is here<\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2012\/01\/girlreaction_reads_favorites_o_2.html\">a little write-up on some other favorites, beyond the six mentioned in this post, is over here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turns out I haven&#8217;t done hardly any reviewing of books on Snip this year (I have been busy ya know!) but I still plan to whip through a few here and there until I find a job so I&#8217;ll add links to those if\/when I post them! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My top six very favorite books read during 2011 were (not in any order) &#8220;Wonderstruck&#8221; by Brian Selznick, Love Is the Higher Law, by David Levithan, &#8220;State of Wonder&#8221; by Ann Patchett, &#8220;36 Arguments for the Existence of God&#8221;, by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/01\/wrapping-it-up-favorite-books-2011.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best_of","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}