{"id":1164,"date":"2005-12-31T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1164"},"modified":"2009-11-12T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T01:53:00","slug":"little-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1164","title":{"rendered":"Little Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Best Books I Read this Year<\/em>:
\nIn Camelot’s Shadow<\/a><\/em> by Sarah Zettel<\/a>
\nA Sorcerer’s Treason<\/a><\/em> by Sarah Zettel<\/a>
\nSorcery & Cecelia -OR- The Enchanted Chocolate Pot<\/a><\/em> by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer
\nRising Stars<\/a><\/em> by J. Michael Straczynski<\/a>
\nThe Swan’s War<\/a><\/em> by Sean Russell<\/a>
\nThe Fencing Master<\/a><\/em> by Arturo Perez-Reverte<\/a>
\nTales of the Otori<\/a><\/em> by Lian Hearn
\nThe Southern Vampire Mysteries<\/a><\/em> by Charlaine Harris<\/a>
\nJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell<\/a><\/em> by Susanna Clarke<\/p>\n

These are the books that have stuck in my mind througout the year, that I have given or recommended to others, or that I can’t wait to read again. This list does not include books that I reread, otherwise Swordspoint<\/a><\/em> would have been here.<\/p>\n

Favorite Movies\/TV Shows I Saw this Year<\/em>:
\nBatman Begins<\/em>
\nThe Corpse Bride<\/em>
\nFirefly<\/a><\/em>
\nIron Monkey<\/em><\/p>\n

Favorite Places I Visited<\/em>:
\nNewport Aquarium, Newport, KY
\nNational Aquarium, Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n

Cookbooks I Use Most Frequently<\/em>:
\nHow to Cook Everything<\/a><\/em> by Mark Bittman
\nThe King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook<\/a><\/em> by King Arthur Flour
\nLuscious Lemon Desserts<\/a><\/em> by Lori Longbotham
\nCookwise<\/a><\/em> by Shirley O. Corriher
\nThe All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking<\/a><\/em> by Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, and Irma S. Rombauer
\n1000 Vegetarian Recipes<\/a><\/em> by Carol Gelles
\nAlice Medrich’s Cookies and Brownies<\/a><\/em> by Alice Medrich<\/p>\n

ADDENDUM the First<\/em>:
\nExcluding any books I read today, I read 150 books this year. The power of Excel tells me that this averages out to 12.5 books a month. This also counts The Great Book of Amber<\/a><\/em> as a single book and not ten separate books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Best Books I Read this Year: In Camelot’s Shadow by Sarah Zettel A Sorcerer’s Treason by Sarah Zettel Sorcery & Cecelia -OR- The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer Rising Stars by J. Michael Straczynski The Swan’s War by Sean Russell The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte Tales of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-iM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}