{"id":1457,"date":"2011-09-09T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2011-09-09T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:04:31","slug":"summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2011\/09\/09\/summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have books to read. I had books to read which I still haven&#8217;t. I have newer books to read too. I started to read one recently (A Dance With Dragons) but didn&#8217;t go very far in (yet.) I haven&#8217;t sat to read any book nearly all summer long, which is odd for me of late. Anyhow I can read, I can read, I can read. I know how to read. I just need to do it sometimes. I mean READ a BOOK from front to back, cover to cover.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, I did read a book the first Harry Dresden book. There. That&#8217;s something. (I&#8217;d like to get the rest of the series, I bet I would read them all very fast if I could get my hands on them.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new Scott Harvath book out. My hubby bought the digital nook book. I like hardback paper though. He said I could get it, but hasn&#8217;t done so for me yet &#8230; I&#8217;m not sure about doing it, as much as I kind of want to. I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of books coming out really soon: My two most favorite characters .. Virgil Flowers and Jack Reacher. Those I have to pre-order and have them on my doorstep the day of release, but those I will read ASAP, like that very moment I open the box (if I can.)<strong> Update 9-9-2011 9:00am: [Just pre-ordered <a title=\"The Affair by Lee Child on B&amp;N.com\" href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Affair\/Lee-Child\/e\/9780385344326?x=3609909\" target=\"_blank\">The Affair (Jack Reacher #16) by Lee Child<\/a>]<\/strong> <strong>[Just pre-ordered <a title=\"Shockwave by John Sanford on B&amp;N.com\" href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Shock-Wave\/John-Sandford\/e\/9780399157691?x=2209909\" target=\"_blank\">Shockwave (Virgil Flowers #5) by John Sanford<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have books to read. I had books to read which I still haven&#8217;t. I have newer books to read too. I started to read one recently (A Dance With Dragons) but didn&#8217;t go very far in (yet.) I haven&#8217;t sat to read any book nearly all summer long, which is odd for me of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1473,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2011\/10\/15\/read-build-make\/","url_meta":{"origin":1457,"position":0},"title":"Read; Build; Make","author":"Maisy","date":"Saturday, October 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It's already mid-October! 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