{"id":2963,"date":"2012-05-28T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2012-05-28T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T13:46:47","slug":"brook-street-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2963","title":{"rendered":"Brook Street: Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0070Y00M2\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0070Y00M2\">Brook Street: Thief<\/a><\/em> (2012) Ava March<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my.<\/p>\n<p>This is a boinking book. And I mean <em>A BOINKING<\/em> book.<\/p>\n<p>Guess that&#8217;s a major problem with Kindle books, is that when I &#8220;pick one up&#8221; to read, I don&#8217;t see the cover.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8230; I&#8217;m not quite sure what I was thinking when I got this book. I think I was intrigued by the fact it was a British historical and I was thinking more along the lines of romance rather than, you know, boinking.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a bad book, and I have to admit I&#8217;m now extremely curious as to the historical accuracy of male-on-male relationships, and want to know more. <\/p>\n<p>Only, you know, not THAT kind of detail. (blush)<\/p>\n<p>Published by Carina Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brook Street: Thief (2012) Ava March Oh. Oh my. This is a boinking book. And I mean A BOINKING book. Guess that&#8217;s a major problem with Kindle books, is that when I &#8220;pick one up&#8221; to read, I don&#8217;t see the cover. I&#8230; I&#8217;m not quite sure what I was thinking when I got this [&hellip;]<\/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":[30,33,26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-historical","category-romance","category-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-LN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20113,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20113","url_meta":{"origin":2963,"position":0},"title":"A Talent for Trickery","author":"Michelle","date":"July 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A Talent for Trickery (2015) Alissa Johnson (The Thief-Takers) Set in England in 1872 Owen Renderwell, the first Viscount Renderwell and Gentleman Thief-Taker needs to solve a series of crimes. 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