{"id":377,"date":"2008-11-11T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2008-11-11T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:54:27","slug":"amazons-best-100-books-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/amazons-best-100-books-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s best 100 books of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has posted their picks for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ffeature.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26plgroup%3D1%26docId%3D1000298741&amp;tag=thelitteinlit-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\" target=\"_blank\">100 best books of 2008.<\/a> <em>The Northern Clemency<\/em> by Philip Hensher claims the top spot. Honestly, I wasn&#8217;t planning to read this novel, but now I am. I find that one of Amazon&#8217;s most useful features is that it helps me discover new books better than most physical bookstores. And that, to me, is the value of a bookstore\u2014how good a job it does of introducing me to books I didn&#8217;t even know I wanted. Every store will promote <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374531552?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thelitteinlit-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0374531552\" target=\"_blank\">2666,<\/a><\/em> but how many will compel me to buy <em>The Northern Clemency?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has posted their picks for the 100 best books of 2008. The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher claims the top spot. Honestly, I wasn&#8217;t planning to read this novel, but now I am. I find that one of Amazon&#8217;s most useful features is that it helps me discover new books better than most physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}