{"id":58,"date":"2008-01-07T23:24:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T03:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/happy-new-year-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T23:24:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T03:24:54","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 2008!\u00a0 I&#8217;m starting off the year with a list of the books I most enjoyed in 2007, my\u00a0list of <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/Standouts2008.html\">2008 Sonderbooks Stand-outs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I spent 2007 studying for my Master&#8217;s in Library Science (and I finished it!), the reviews will take longer to post than this list. Don&#8217;t worry, they are on the way!<\/p>\n<p>If only I didn&#8217;t read so many good books! As you can see, I have trouble narrowing down my choices. I do recommend every book on this list. They are books that stood out in my mind after a year of reading. For fun, I&#8217;ve listed them in the order I enjoyed them, which shouldn&#8217;t be construed as a ranking of their quality.<\/p>\n<p>As always with the Stand-outs, I&#8217;ve categorized the books so so that I don&#8217;t have to make too many choices between wonderful but very different books. This year, I&#8217;ve added a category for audiobooks. Two of the audiobooks I listened to were the very best books I read in a previous year, so it didn&#8217;t seem fair to put them with the genre they are part of and have them top the list again. Instead, I ranked them according to my experience enjoying listening to them.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 2008!\u00a0 I&#8217;m starting off the year with a list of the books I most enjoyed in 2007, my\u00a0list of 2008 Sonderbooks Stand-outs. Since I spent 2007 studying for my Master&#8217;s in Library Science (and I finished it!), the reviews will take longer to post than this list. Don&#8217;t worry, they are on the way! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stand-outs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}