{"id":3247,"date":"2006-12-31T17:17:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/12\/books-read-in-2006.html"},"modified":"2006-12-31T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:17:57","slug":"books-read-in-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/12\/books-read-in-2006.html","title":{"rendered":"Books Read in 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(In descending order this time around!)<br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI>Acts of Faith, by Philip Caputo<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Veterans&#8217; Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>Here Kitty Kitty, by Jardine Libaire<br \/>\n<LI>The Summer of Ordinary Ways, by Nicole Lea Helget<br \/>\n<LI>The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>The Thin Place, by Kathryn Davis<br \/>\n<LI>The Aquitaine Progression, by Robert Ludlum (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>The Liberated Bride, by A.B. Yehoshua<br \/>\n<LI>(half of) Victoria Victorious, by Jean Plaidy<br \/>\n<LI>The Accidental, by Ali Smith<br \/>\n<LI>Raymond + Hannah, by Stephen Marche<br \/>\n<LI>Cash, by Johnny Cash<br \/>\n<LI>I&#8217;ll Go to Bed at Noon, by Gerard Woodward<br \/>\n<LI>The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett<br \/>\n<LI>Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee<br \/>\n<LI>Mutant Message: Down Under, by Marlo Morgan<br \/>\n<LI>Garner, by Kristin Allio<br \/>\n<LI>My Sister&#8217;s Continent, by Gina Frangello<br \/>\n<LI>The Apricot Colonel, by Marion Halligan<br \/>\n<LI>A Carnivore&#8217;s Inquiry, by Sabina Murray<br \/>\n<LI>Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf<br \/>\n<LI>One Shot, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>A Cry in the Jungle Bar, by Robert Drewe<br \/>\n<LI>The Blood-Dimmed Tide, by Rennie Airth<br \/>\n<LI>Praise, by Andrew McGahan<br \/>\n<LI>Killing Floor, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>Johnno, by David Malouf<br \/>\n<LI>Die Trying, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>Shadowboxing, by Tony Birch<br \/>\n<LI>Magic or Madness, by Justine Larbalestier<br \/>\n<LI>Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell<br \/>\n<LI>The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett<br \/>\n<LI>Tripwire, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>Everyman, by Philip Roth<br \/>\n<LI>Magic Lessons, by Justine Larbalestier<br \/>\n<LI>Cloudstreet, by Tim Winton<br \/>\n<LI>A Mathematician&#8217;s Apology, by G.H. Hardy<br \/>\n<LI>Lies I Told About a Girl, by Anson Cameron<br \/>\n<LI>Running Blind, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>The Pact, by Jodi Picoult<br \/>\n<LI>Adverbs, by Daniel Handler<br \/>\n<LI>A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby<br \/>\n<LI>In Persuasion Nation, stories by George Saunders<br \/>\n<LI>Poetic Justice; The Literary Imagination and Public Life, by Martha Nussbaum<br \/>\n<LI>Echo Burning, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>Without Fail, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal<br \/>\n<LI>Persuader, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>The Enemy, by Lee Child<br \/>\n<LI>Michael Martone, by Michael Martone<br \/>\n<LI>In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust<br \/>\n<LI>The Afterlife, by Donald Antrim<br \/>\n<LI>Guests of the Ayatollah, by Mark Bowden<br \/>\n<LI>Snow Blind, by P.J. Tracy<br \/>\n<LI>Skin, by Kellie Wells<br \/>\n<LI>I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith<br \/>\n<LI>When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka<br \/>\n<LI>Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy<br \/>\n<LI>Hocus Pocus, by Kurt Vonnegut<br \/>\n<LI>Private Wars, by Greg Rucka<br \/>\n<LI>The Dissident, by Nell Freudenberger<br \/>\n<LI>Which Brings Me to You, by Steve Almond &#038; Julianna Baggott<br \/>\n<LI>China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen F. McHugh<br \/>\n<LI>The Lone Pilgrim, by Laurie Colwin<br \/>\n<LI>Forgetfulness, by Ward Just<br \/>\n<LI>When the Messenger Is Hot, by Elisabeth Crane<br \/>\n<LI>That Eye, That Sky, by Tim Winton<br \/>\n<LI>A Student of Living Things, by Susan Richards Streve<br \/>\n<LI>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami<br \/>\n<LI>Restless, by William Boyd<br \/>\n<LI>Stolen Magic, by M.J. Putney<br \/>\n<LI>Mind Over Matter, Conversations with the Cosmos, by K.C. Cole<br \/>\n<LI>White, by Christopher Whitcomb<br \/>\n<LI>Towing Jehovah, by James Morrow<br \/>\n<LI>Be My Knife, by David Grossman<br \/>\n<LI>Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn<br \/>\n<LI>The Keep, by Jennifer Egan<br \/>\n<LI>The Kitchen Diaries, A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater, by Nigel Slater<br \/>\n<LI>Strong Is Your Hold, by Galway Kinnell (poetry)<br \/>\n<LI>(the first half of) Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl<br \/>\n<LI>Semper Fi, A Novel of the Corps, by W.E.B. Griffin<br \/>\n<LI>Versailles, by Kathryn Davis<br \/>\n<LI>Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette, by Sena Jeter Naslund<br \/>\n<LI>All This Heavenly Glory, by Elizabeth Crane <\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In descending order this time around!) Acts of Faith, by Philip Caputo Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread) Cherry Ames, Veterans&#8217; Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread) Here Kitty Kitty, by Jardine Libaire The Summer of Ordinary Ways, by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/12\/books-read-in-2006.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":[70,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-70","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","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=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}