{"id":3150,"date":"2006-06-03T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:24:58","slug":"catching-up-on-book-reports-and-tabulating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/03\/catching-up-on-book-reports-and-tabulating\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up On Book Reports and Tabulating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ll note in the posts below, I&#8217;ve had a couple of books on my desk for review for a bit.  Before you get into skipping those book reports, allow me to taunt you with a bit of &#8220;nyah nyah&#8221; as I enumerate the books I&#8217;ve read in this NGY (Noggle Goal Year, which runs December 27, 2005, through December 27, 2006):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Empty Trap<\/i> John D. MacDonald\n<li><i>The Executioners<\/i> John D. MacDonald\n<li><i>Mine the Harvest<\/i> Edna St. Vincent Millay\n<li><i>Johnny Mnemonic<\/i>  Terry Bisson\n<li><i>The Museum of Hoaxes<\/i> Alex Boese\n<li><i>Suspects<\/i> William J. Cannitz\n<li><i>Wild Pitch<\/i> Mike Lupica\n<li><i>The Olympics&#8217; Most Wanted<\/i> Floyd Conner\n<li><i>Peking Duck<\/i> Roger L. Simon \n<li><i>100 People Who Are Screwing Up America<\/i> Bernard Goldberg\n<li><i>The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction<\/i> David Geherin\n<li><i>Sea Change<\/i> Robert B. Parker\n<li><i>Pet Sematary<\/i> Stephen King\n<li><i>Collected Stories<\/i> Franz Kafka\n<li><i>Under the Grammar Hammer<\/i> Douglas Cazort\n<li><i>The Wealthy Writer<\/i> Michael Meanwell\n<li><i>Planning and Remodeling Family Rooms, Dens &#038; Studios<\/i> Sunset Books\n<li><i>The Brass Cupcake<\/i> John D. MacDonald\n<li><i>The Substance of Style<\/i> Virginia Postrel\n<li><i>Blood Relatives<\/i> Ed McBain\n<li><i>The Hanged Man&#8217;s Song<\/i> John Sandford\n<li><i>Servant of the Shard<\/i> R.A. Salvatore\n<li><i>Gerald&#8217;s Game<\/i> Stephen King\n<li><i>How to Break Software<\/i> James A. Whittaker\n<li><i>Slightly Chipped<\/i> Lawrence &#038; Nancy Goldstone\n<li><i>Warmly Inscribed<\/i> Lawrence &#038; Nancy Goldstone\n<li><i>The Case Against Hillary Clinton<\/i> Peggy Noonan\n<li><i>The Stainless Steel Rat for President<\/i> Harry Harrison\n<li><i>Bosstrology<\/i> Adele Lang and Andrew Masterson\n<li><i>Bump &#038; Run<\/i> Mike Lupica\n<li><i>Blowback<\/i> Bill Pronzini\n<li><i>Everybody&#8217;s Guide to Book Collecting<\/i> Charlie Lovett\n<li><i>His Affair<\/i> Jo Fleming\n<li><i>Sharky&#8217;s Machine<\/i> William Diehl\n<li><i>The Baby in the Icebox<\/i> James M. Cain\n<li><i>Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction<\/i> Tom Raabe\n<li><i>Aftermath<\/i> LeVar Burton\n<li><i>Expecting<\/i> Gordon Churchwell\n<li><i>Poison<\/i> Ed McBain\n<li><i>The Life of Charlemagne<\/i> Einhard \n<\/ul>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bother you with a set of links, gentle reader, nor a tile of Amazon come ons.  However, do note that unless you&#8217;re keeping pace for 100+ books this year, <i>I am better than you, nyah nyah<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ll note in the posts below, I&#8217;ve had a couple of books on my desk for review for a bit. Before you get into skipping those book reports, allow me to taunt you with a bit of &#8220;nyah nyah&#8221; as I enumerate the books I&#8217;ve read in this NGY (Noggle Goal Year, which runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}