{"id":229,"date":"2008-12-19T00:59:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T05:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=229"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:48:54","slug":"the-holiday-tbr-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-holiday-tbr-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"The holiday TBR pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16010 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081219_waitingcover.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of WAITING FOR SPRING by R.J. Keller, showing a barren tree and snowy grass.\" width=\"250\" height=\"341\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rjkeller.wordpress.com\/waiting-for-spring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Waiting for Spring<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nby RJ Keller<\/p>\n<div class=\"indentplain\">Currently reading. Excellent, excellent work.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16020\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090104_duchessetal.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of THE DUCHESS, HER MAID, THE GROOM, &amp; THEIR LOVER by Victoria Janssen, showing a woman in an 18th-century stomacher with a three-strand pearl choker, a man lying on her stomach and hands reaching toward her.\" width=\"250\" height=\"391\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Duchess-Maid-Groom-Their-Lover\/dp\/0373605269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom, and Their Lover<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nby Victoria Janssen<\/p>\n<div class=\"indentplain\">Started. I wanted to read this book but then saw the ebook price ($11.30! for an ELECTRONIC book!!!), bitched about it, then was offered a copy if I would review it, which I will. I will admit, however, that I find myself reading it through the filter of some blogging unpleasantness elsewhere.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16009 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081219_thehole.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of THE HOLE by Aaron Ross Powell, which depicts a bright circular light, as if standing at the bottom of a well and looking up at sunlight.\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hole-Aaron-Ross-Powell\/dp\/1934861782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Hole (Draft)<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nby Aaron Ross Powell<\/p>\n<div class=\"indentplain\">Started. This seems more of a visual novel to me (I\u2019m a visual reader) and I have to have some quiet time to do it. Between the DDJ (damned day job) and the Tax Deductions, finding sufficient quiet time has been difficult.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order: Waiting for Spring by RJ Keller Currently reading. Excellent, excellent work. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom, and Their Lover by Victoria Janssen Started. I wanted to read this book but then saw the ebook price ($11.30! for an ELECTRONIC book!!!), bitched about it, then [&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":[564],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tbr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17030,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/17030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}