{"id":2089,"date":"2024-01-03T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2024-01-03T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:55:31","slug":"books-i-read-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2024\/01\/books-i-read-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I read in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once again, I didn&#8217;t read nearly as many books as I would have liked in 2023. At the beginning of the year, I was studying a lot of technical materials and working on gaining new skills for my job search so that took up a lot of my time in addition to really pushing to finish my <em>Ima Ninja<\/em> translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0) &#8211; a fun and entertaining prequel to Ken Follett&#8217;s <em>The Pillars of the Earth<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sea of Tranquility<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children of Dune (Dune, #3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hidden Pictures &#8211; kinda lame <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JAWS: Memories from Martha&#8217;s Vineyard &#8211; I finally bought a copy of this book after many years of having it on my wish list. You couldn&#8217;t get a more detailed look at the making of Jaws.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>How High We Go in the Dark<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Convenience Store Woman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tamao<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning React: Modern Patterns for Developing React Apps &#8211; it was just as exciting as it sounds!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I didn&#8217;t read nearly as many books as I would have liked in 2023. At the beginning of the year, I was studying a lot of technical materials and working on gaining new skills for my job search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2024\/01\/books-i-read-in-2023\/\">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],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about_me","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}