{"id":2113,"date":"2025-01-02T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:21:24","slug":"books-i-read-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2025\/01\/books-i-read-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I Read in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was another big year for Stephen King &#8211; I will read pretty much whatever that man writes. His newest collection of &#8220;short&#8221; stories and &#8220;Billy Summers&#8221; were both great summer reads. It&#8217;s interesting how much what I&#8217;m doing in real life can influence my enjoyment of a book or story. Because we had such an extended spell of dry weather in the second half of the year, I spent a lot of time reading while laying in my hammock this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West <\/strong>&#8211; Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Name of the Wind<\/strong> (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) &#8211; Patrick Rothfuss<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fairy Tale &#8211; Stephen King<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>You Like It Darker<\/strong> &#8211; Stephen King<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Billy Summers<\/strong> &#8211; Stephen King<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut&#8217;s Journey<\/strong> &#8211; Michael Collins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Holly &#8211; Stephen King<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A Man on the Moon<\/strong> &#8211; Andrew Chaikin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stories of Your Life and Others &#8211; Ted Chiang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4) &#8211; Frank Herbert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the &#8217;80s<\/strong> &#8211; Gary Gulman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another big year for Stephen King &#8211; I will read pretty much whatever that man writes. His newest collection of &#8220;short&#8221; stories and &#8220;Billy Summers&#8221; were both great summer reads. It&#8217;s interesting how much what I&#8217;m doing in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2025\/01\/books-i-read-in-2024\/\">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":[64,63],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about_me","category-reading_list","tag-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","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=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}