{"id":3257,"date":"2008-12-29T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T00:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/books-read-in-2008.html"},"modified":"2008-12-29T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T00:20:34","slug":"books-read-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/books-read-in-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Books Read in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><UL type=\"square\"><LI>The Scarecrow and His Servant, by Philip Pullman (12\/29)<br \/>\n<LI>Disquiet, by Julia Leigh (12\/28)<br \/>\n<LI>Silver Wings for Vicki, by Helen Wells (12\/28)<br \/>\n<LI>If the River Was Whiskey, by T. Coraghessan Boyle (12\/25) (stories)<br \/>\n<LI>Black &#038; White, by Dani Shapiro (12\/22)<br \/>\n<LI>A Spy in the Family; An Erotic Comedy, by Alec Waugh (12\/22)<br \/>\n<LI>A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories about Human Love, by Ben Greenman (12\/21)<br \/>\n<LI>Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan (12\/20)<br \/>\n<LI>The Trial, by Kafka (12\/12)<br \/>\n<LI>Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge (12\/3)<br \/>\n<LI>The Lover&#8217;s Knot, by Clare O&#8217;Donohue (12\/1)<br \/>\n<LI>The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks (11\/30)<br \/>\n<LI>The Oxford Book of Short Stories, edited by V.S. Pritchett (11\/29)<br \/>\n<LI>The Conversations at Curlow Creek, by David Malouf (10\/31)<br \/>\n<LI>The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, edited by Richard Ford (10\/31)<br \/>\n<LI>Her Majesty&#8217;s Dragon, by Naomi Novik (10\/19)<br \/>\n<LI>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (10\/09)<br \/>\n<LI>Iodine, by Haven Kimmel (9\/24)<br \/>\n<LI>Sway, by Zachary Lazar (9\/20)<br \/>\n<LI>Dead Boys, by Richard Lange (9\/15) (stories)<br \/>\n<LI>The Man Without Qualities, Vol 1, by Robert Musil (9\/7)<br \/>\n<LI>The Hob&#8217;s Bargain, by Patricia Briggs (8\/19)<br \/>\n<LI>Bolt, by Dick Francis (8\/11) (re-read, many times over)<br \/>\n<LI>Break In, by Dick Francis (8\/11) (re-read, many times over)<br \/>\n<LI>Unmentionables, by Beth Ann Fennelly (8\/3) (poetry)<br \/>\n<LI>Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, ed. by Jason T. Eberl (8\/3)<br \/>\n<LI>Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer (8\/2)<br \/>\n<LI>The Likeness, by Tana French (8\/2)<br \/>\n<LI>Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld (7\/26)<br \/>\n<LI>Finding Battlestar Galactica, an Unauthorized Guide, ed. by Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, &#038; Hillary Robson (7\/24)<br \/>\n<LI>Absurdistan, A Novel, by Gary Shteyngart (7\/20)<br \/>\n<LI>Trespass, by Valerie Martin (7\/7)<br \/>\n<LI>Nothing to Lose, by Lee Child (6\/29)<br \/>\n<LI>Dark Roots, by Cate Kennedy (6\/25) (stories)<br \/>\n<LI>Lush Life, by Richard Price (6\/23)<br \/>\n<LI>Life Class, by Pat Barker (6\/16)<br \/>\n<LI>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season 3, by David Bassom (6\/13)<br \/>\n<LI>Raven&#8217;s Strike, by Patricia Briggs (6\/12)<br \/>\n<LI>The Farther Shore, by Matthew Eck (6\/11)<br \/>\n<LI>Raven&#8217;s Shadow, by Patricia Briggs (6\/10)<br \/>\n<LI>War with the Newts, by Karel Capek (6\/9)<br \/>\n<LI>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season 2, by David Bassom (6\/8)<br \/>\n<LI>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion, by David Bassom (6\/6)<br \/>\n<LI>The Collected Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (5\/31) (stories)<br \/>\n<LI>The Final Detail, by Harlan Coben (5\/24)<br \/>\n<LI>One False Move, by Harlan Coben (5\/22)<br \/>\n<LI>Dragon Blood, by Patricia Briggs (5\/20)<br \/>\n<LI>Dragon Bones, by Patricia Briggs (5\/18)<br \/>\n<LI>The Devil of Nanking, by Mo Hayder (5\/10)<br \/>\n<LI>Slam, by Nick Hornby (5\/4)<br \/>\n<LI>Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child (5\/2)<br \/>\n<LI>Just One Look, by Harlan Coben (5\/2)<br \/>\n<LI>Back Spin, by Harlan Coben (4\/29)<br \/>\n<LI>The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch (4\/28)<br \/>\n<LI>Fade Away, by Harlan Coben (4\/28)<br \/>\n<LI>The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff (4\/22)<br \/>\n<LI>Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos (4\/18)<br \/>\n<LI>Drop Shot, by Harlan Coben (4\/13)<br \/>\n<LI>The Watchman, a Joe Pike novel, by Robert Crais (4\/5)<br \/>\n<LI>The Tourmaline, by Paul Park (3\/30)<br \/>\n<LI>The Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie (3\/26)<br \/>\n<LI>Let`s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, by Carl Wilson (3\/25)<br \/>\n<LI>The Naming of the Dead, by Ian Rankin (3\/24)<br \/>\n<LI>Ms. Pettigrew Lives for the Day, by Winifred Watson (3\/22)<br \/>\n<LI>The Hounds and the Fury, by Rita Mae Brown (3\/20 or 21 while crossing international date line)<br \/>\n<LI>The Hunt Ball, by Rita Mae Brown (3\/20)<br \/>\n<LI>The Complete Stories, by David Malouf (3\/19) (stories)<br \/>\n<LI>The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist, by Richard P. Feynman (3\/3)<br \/>\n<LI>The Good Soldier Svejk, by Jaroslav Hasek (2\/28)<br \/>\n<LI>The Faithful Spy, by Alex Berenson (2\/19)<br \/>\n<LI>A Princess of Roumania, by Paul Park (2\/18)<br \/>\n<LI>Iron Kissed, by Patricia Briggs (2\/1)<br \/>\n<LI>You Must Be This Happy to Enter, by Elizabeth Crane (1\/31) (stories)<br \/>\n<LI>Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson (1\/29)<br \/>\n<LI>Fortunate Son, by Walter Mosley (1\/27)<br \/>\n<LI>Dead I Well May Be, by Adrian McKinty (1\/27)<br \/>\n<LI>Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey (1\/25) (poetry)<br \/>\n<LI>The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A.S. Byatt (1\/24) (stories)<br \/>\n<LI>Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, by Nick Hornby (1\/1)<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scarecrow and His Servant, by Philip Pullman (12\/29) Disquiet, by Julia Leigh (12\/28) Silver Wings for Vicki, by Helen Wells (12\/28) If the River Was Whiskey, by T. Coraghessan Boyle (12\/25) (stories) Black &#038; White, by Dani Shapiro (12\/22) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/books-read-in-2008.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":[73,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-73","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","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=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}