{"id":3237,"date":"2004-12-31T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2004\/12\/girlreaction-reads-best-of-2004.html"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T22:13:22","slug":"girlreaction-reads-best-of-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2004\/12\/girlreaction-reads-best-of-2004.html","title":{"rendered":"GirlReaction Reads: Best of 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Best Novel read in 2004<\/u>: <strong>The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Runners-Up<\/u>: <strong>The Houdini Girl, by Martyn Bedford<\/strong> and <strong>The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Favorite New Discoveries<\/u>: <strong>Jonathan Coe<\/strong> (&#8220;The Rotters Club&#8221; and &#8220;The Winshaw Legacy&#8221;), <strong>William Boyd<\/strong> (&#8220;Any Human Heart&#8221;, &#8220;The New Confessions&#8221; and &#8220;Stars and Bars&#8221;), <strong>Alison McGhee<\/strong> (&#8220;Rainlight&#8221; and &#8220;Shadow Baby&#8221;) and <strong>Haven Kimmel<\/strong> (&#8220;Something Rising (Light and Swift)&#8221; and &#8220;The Solace of Leaving Early&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Novel read in 2004: The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth. Runners-Up: The Houdini Girl, by Martyn Bedford and The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard. Favorite New Discoveries: Jonathan Coe (&#8220;The Rotters Club&#8221; and &#8220;The Winshaw Legacy&#8221;), William Boyd &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2004\/12\/girlreaction-reads-best-of-2004.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,63,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-65","category-all-faves","category-favebooks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}