{"id":1703,"date":"2009-07-20T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:00:36","slug":"august-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/august-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"August reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night was the \u201cOscars\u201d for romance, which is called RITA (no idea what that stands for, if anything). I saw something interesting in the results that made me form a hypothesis, and I want to test my hypothesis, so I\u2019ll be reading the following books in August, which are the nominees for the \u201cNovel with Strong Romantic Elements\u201d category:<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent10\"><em>Last Dance At Jitterbug Lounge<\/em> by Pamela Morsi<br \/>\n<em> The House on Tradd Street<\/em> by Karen White<br \/>\n<em> The Paper Marriage<\/em> by Susan Kay Law<br \/>\n<em> The Shape of Mercy<\/em> by Susan Meissner (must ILL this one)<br \/>\n<em> The Winter Sea<\/em> by Susanna Kearsley<br \/>\n<em> Tribute<\/em> by Nora Roberts<br \/>\n<em> Where Serpents Sleep<\/em> by C.S. Harris<\/div>\n<p>Aside: I was going to buy all these in ebook, but I had put the first three in my basket at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksonboard.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BooksOnBoard<\/a> and they were all just too damned expensive. So helloooooo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymcpl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mid-Continent Public Library<\/a>. I\u2019ll read paper for free before I\u2019ll plunk down $13+ for an ebook. Bite me, publishers. This is how you encourage pirates to steal your authors\u2019 work and take money away from <em>them<\/em>. Please note deliberate sentence construction.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I am on schedule (actually ahead of) for my July reading list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night was the \u201cOscars\u201d for romance, which is called RITA (no idea what that stands for, if anything). I saw something interesting in the results that made me form a hypothesis, and I want to test my hypothesis, so I\u2019ll be reading the following books in August, which are the nominees for the \u201cNovel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16846,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/16846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}