{"id":1267,"date":"2023-04-30T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2023-04-30T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T17:16:22","slug":"books-ive-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Books I&#8217;ve Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I would enjoy reading as much as I do. Honestly, when I would start to read a book it would take me months to finish it. I think the primary reason was because of work.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m retired, I can actually enjoy things. Instead of my mind drifting away from what I was reading because I thought I need to do something better or need to get something else accomplished&#8230; in retirement I can finally just dive in.<\/p>\n<p>I have joined a book club&#8230; the last thing I&#8217;d ever thought I&#8217;d say because of hating to read because of aforementioned reasons. Anyway, I thought I would gather an ongoing list of books that I&#8217;ve read. I have no idea how long this post will get. At some point I should probably turn it into a page&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>* = book club discussion<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Summer Nights At The Moonlight Hotel &#8211; Jane Castello<\/li>\n<li><em>*<\/em> One By One &#8211; Ruth Ware<\/li>\n<li><em>*<\/em> Verity &#8211; Colleen Hoover<\/li>\n<li>A Flicker In The Dark &#8211; Stacy Willingham<\/li>\n<li>Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama &#8211; Bob Odenkirk<\/li>\n<li>Chase &#8211; D. L. Hays<\/li>\n<li>All the Dexter books &#8211; Jeff Lindsay\n<ul>\n<li>Darkly Dreaming Dexter<\/li>\n<li>Dearly Devoted Dexter<\/li>\n<li>Dexter In The Dark<\/li>\n<li>Dexter By Design<\/li>\n<li>Dexter Is Delicious<\/li>\n<li>Double Dexter<\/li>\n<li>Dexter&#8217;s Final Cut<\/li>\n<li>Dexter Is Dead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I would enjoy reading as much as I do. Honestly, when I would start to read a book it would take me months to finish it. I think the primary reason was because of work. Now that I&#8217;m retired, I can actually enjoy things. Instead of my mind drifting away from what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-ongoing-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}