{"id":2034,"date":"2022-04-12T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:43:53","slug":"books-i-read-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2022\/04\/books-i-read-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I read in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The list goes from latest in the year to earliest in the year. I read a lot of Stephen King in 2021! I&#8217;ve always enjoyed King&#8217;s short stories and novellas (most are longer than the average book!) because they don&#8217;t usually jump the shark like so many of his novels seem to do. I went back and re-read several of his collections &#8211; most of which I first read as a young teen. Cujo was really great, too! I actually did a book report on that story in 7th grade!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also read a lot of &#8220;making of&#8221; books (as I do every summer, it seems) about Blade Runner and Aliens. If you&#8217;re a fan of Blade Runner, &#8220;Future Noir&#8221; is a must!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-327ff01a-0a69-4d6e-bb26-7994f3c5a9ad\"><li>One Last Look: A Sentimental Journey to the Eighth Air Force Heavy Bomber Bases of World War II in England<\/li><li>Aliens: The Special Effects<\/li><li>Hearts in Atlantis<\/li><li>Carrie<\/li><li>Cujo<\/li><li>Blade Runner: The Inside Story<\/li><li>Project Hail Mary<\/li><li>Four Past Midnight<\/li><li>\u2026my Way &#8211; 40 Years Bujinkan in Europe<\/li><li>Ninniku Yoroi<\/li><li>Night Shift<\/li><li>Future Noir Revised &amp; Updated ion: The Making of Blade Runner<\/li><li>Skeleton Crew<\/li><li>Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II<\/li><li>Ninpo Hibun &#8211; The collected writings of Masaaki Hatsumi and his teacher Toshitsugu Takamatsu (Volume 1)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list goes from latest in the year to earliest in the year. I read a lot of Stephen King in 2021! I&#8217;ve always enjoyed King&#8217;s short stories and novellas (most are longer than the average book!) because they don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2022\/04\/books-i-read-in-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about_me","category-reading_list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}