{"id":374,"date":"2004-08-22T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T03:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/374"},"modified":"2004-08-22T20:26:04","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T03:26:04","slug":"the-blackie-ryan-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/374","title":{"rendered":"The Blackie Ryan Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be it for the fun reading for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, of course, we went to three bookstores this weekend and bought more books. But really! I needed to replace my copy of Steven Brust&#8217;s <i>The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackie Ryan Mysteries by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agreeley.com\/\">Andrew M. Greeley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I like Andrew M. Greeley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily recommend a reading marathon of the Blackie Ryan mysteries, primarily because he has written the books to stand alone, so each book gives you an explanation of the nickname punk, Blackie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relationship with Mary Kate, and why Mike the Cop is called Mike the Cop. Those things aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bad in and of themselves, but they get a little old if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re read the same line three days in a row. He does, however, get a little better about this as the series continues, which is good, because I was getting a little tired of reading about Sean Cardinal Cronin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gallowglass laugh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/library\/000410.html\"><b>Read More about the Blackie Ryan Mysteries<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be it for the fun reading for awhile. Which is why, of course, we went to three bookstores this weekend and bought more books. But really! I needed to replace my copy of Steven Brust&#8217;s The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. The Blackie Ryan Mysteries by Andrew M. Greeley Although I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","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-62","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}