{"id":955,"date":"2008-08-02T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=955"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:44:03","slug":"a_la_nick_hornb-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/a_la_nick_hornb-4.html","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 la Nick Hornby, books in\/books out for July."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Bought:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>Peeps, by Scott Westerberg<\/li>\n<li>Uglies, by Scott Westerberg<\/li>\n<li>Finding Battlestar Galactica, by Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, and HIllary Robson<\/li>\n<li>Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, ed. by James B. South<\/li>\n<li>Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ed. by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks<\/li>\n<li>Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, ed. by Jason T. Eberl<\/li>\n<li>Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Read:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>Trespass, by Valerie Martin<\/li>\n<li>Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart<\/li>\n<li>Finding Battlestar Galactica, ed. by Lynette Porter, David Lavery, and Hillary Robson<\/li>\n<li>Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent a significant part of the month reading two other books (The New Grant Book of the American Short Story, ed. by Richard Ford; and Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, ed by Jason Eberl), but since I haven&#8217;t finished them, they&#8217;ll have to wait for August&#8217;s list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought: Peeps, by Scott Westerberg Uglies, by Scott Westerberg Finding Battlestar Galactica, by Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, and HIllary Robson Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, ed. by James B. South Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ed. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/a_la_nick_hornb-4.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,38,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hornby-esque","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}