{"id":4974,"date":"2009-08-19T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:55:24","slug":"im-not-going-to-waste-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/im-not-going-to-waste-my-time\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m not going to waste my time."},"content":{"rendered":"

My August reading list experiment<\/a> is no more.<\/p>\n

I read Where Serpents Sleep<\/em><\/a> by C.S. Harris and found it a bit hollow, particularly the end, where the heroine, Hero (I\u2019d find that funnier if I didn\u2019t know it was a Shakes reference), is kind of \u2026 forgotten. Hello! She lost her virginity. A teensy bit of half of a resolution would have been nice to ease me into the next book in the series. Actually, (please mark your calendars) I didn\u2019t think the token sex scene was at all necessary (nor was it in character for either of them) and for me, that scene was a WTF? It made me wonder if the editor made her insert the de-virginization scene. Because without more emotional preparation before or reflection after by either of the characters, it made it superfluous. It was like a question that didn\u2019t get completely asked, much less answered.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m 100 pages into Tribute<\/em><\/a> by Nora Roberts. It\u2019s going back to the library tomorrow with the rest of the list.<\/p>\n

I have no interest in any of these books and I wouldn\u2019t have picked them up in the first place, and my hypothesis will thus officially remain a hypothesis because I\u2019m so<\/em> not interested in proving it.<\/p>\n

I have to finish beta-reading for a friend (this is not a chore, believe me and plug: her debut novel, On These Silken Sheets<\/em><\/a>, is out on September 8\u2014go preorder right now!), I am caught up in Seabird of Sanematsu<\/em><\/a> and Fight Club<\/em><\/a> so I need to finish those, and I want to glom some Victoria Dahl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just what I have on my READING plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My August reading list experiment is no more. I read Where Serpents Sleep by C.S. Harris and found it a bit hollow, particularly the end, where the heroine, Hero (I\u2019d find that funnier if I didn\u2019t know it was a Shakes reference), is kind of \u2026 forgotten. Hello! She lost her virginity. A teensy bit […]<\/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-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974"}],"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=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16841,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/16841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}