{"id":348,"date":"2006-12-29T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T12:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=348"},"modified":"2006-12-29T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T12:01:44","slug":"what-i-read-this-year-2006-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/29\/what-i-read-this-year-2006-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Read This Year, 2006 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First few books of the year:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident by Elie Wiesel<\/li>\n<li>A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O&#8217;Connor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Horatio Hornblower<\/strong> books by C.S. Forester:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Midshipman Hornblower<\/li>\n<li>Lieutenant Hornblower<\/li>\n<li>Hornblower and the Hotspur<\/li>\n<li>Hornblower and the Atropos<\/li>\n<li>Beat to Quarters<\/li>\n<li>Ship of the Line<\/li>\n<li>Flying Colours<\/li>\n<li>Commodore Hornblower<\/li>\n<li>Lord Hornblower<\/li>\n<li>Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies<\/li>\n<li>Hornblower During the Crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Aubrey-Maturin series<\/strong> by Patrick O&#8217;Brian:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Master and Commander<\/li>\n<li>Post Captain<\/li>\n<li>H.M.S. Surprise<\/li>\n<li>The Mauritius Command<\/li>\n<li>Desolation Island<\/li>\n<li>The Fortune of War<\/li>\n<li>The Surgeon&#8217;s Mate<\/li>\n<li>The Ionian Mission<\/li>\n<li>Treason&#8217;s Harbour<\/li>\n<li>The Far Side of the World<\/li>\n<li>The Reverse of the Medal<\/li>\n<li>The Letter of Marque<\/li>\n<li>The Thirteen-Gun Salute<\/li>\n<li>The Nutmeg of Consolation<\/li>\n<li>The Truelove<\/li>\n<li>The Wine-Dark Sea<\/li>\n<li>The Commodore<\/li>\n<li>The Yellow Admiral<\/li>\n<li>The Hundred Days<\/li>\n<li>Blue at the Mizzen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Couple of other Royal Navy books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men-Of-War: Life in Nelson&#8217;s Navy by Patrick O&#8217;Brian<\/li>\n<li>Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson&#8217;s Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow. Thirty-five books this year. That&#8217;s a <em>lot<\/em> more than in recent years, probably the most since like the late eighties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First few books of the year:\u00a0 The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident by Elie Wiesel A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O&#8217;Connor Horatio Hornblower books by C.S. Forester: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the Hotspur Hornblower and the Atropos Beat to Quarters Ship of the Line &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/29\/what-i-read-this-year-2006-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I Read This Year, 2006 Edition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}