{"id":3249,"date":"2007-01-02T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/girlreaction-reads-favorites-of-2006.html"},"modified":"2007-01-02T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T15:55:16","slug":"girlreaction-reads-favorites-of-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/girlreaction-reads-favorites-of-2006.html","title":{"rendered":"GirlReaction Reads: Favorites of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/\">Snip<\/a>]<br \/>\n[Limiting myself MOSTLY to books published and read this year, as opposed to all the books I read this year.]<br \/>\nThe best NON fiction books I read this year were <strong>&#8220;Guests of the Ayatollah&#8221; by Mark Bowden <\/strong>and <strong>&#8220;The Year of Magical Thinking&#8221; by Joan Didion<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe best novels I read were <strong>&#8220;Black Swan Green&#8221; by David Mitchell<\/strong>, <strong>&#8220;Sharp Objects&#8221; by Gillian Flynn<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;Towing Jehovah&#8221; by James Morrow <\/strong>[that one was not pub this year].<br \/>\nThe best short stories I read were <strong>&#8220;In Persuasian Nation&#8221; by George Saunders <\/strong>and &#8220;<strong>When the Messenger Is Hot&#8221; by Elizabeth Crane <\/strong>(not from this year either).<br \/>\nThe best poetry was <strong>&#8220;Strong Is Your Hold&#8221; by Galway Kinnell<\/strong>.<br \/>\nYou can view the entire list of what I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2006\/12\/books_read_in_2006.html\">here <\/a>and reviews of most items are up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/\">Snip <\/a>(search by author or select category &#8220;readin&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[originally posted on Snip] [Limiting myself MOSTLY to books published and read this year, as opposed to all the books I read this year.] The best NON fiction books I read this year were &#8220;Guests of the Ayatollah&#8221; by Mark &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/girlreaction-reads-favorites-of-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":[70,63,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-70","category-all-faves","category-favebooks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","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=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}