{"id":20127,"date":"2021-05-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20127"},"modified":"2021-05-13T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:22:13","slug":"reading-report-mid-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20127","title":{"rendered":"Reading Report: Mid-May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I recently finished Barbara Michaels&#8217;s <em>The Master of Blacktower<\/em>, a generally entertaining Gothic romance set in the Highlands of Scotland. I have read all of her novels now except four. I&#8217;m a little sad to be approaching the end of this particular reading challenge. Once I&#8217;ve finished, there will be no more new Barbara Michaels novels to read.<\/li><li>I am 158\/387 pages into <em>An Appetite for Violets<\/em> by Martine Bailey. It is historical fiction, which is not a favorite genre of mine. I chose the book simply because it had &#8220;Violets&#8221; in the title. I wasn&#8217;t expecting much from it, but I&#8217;ve been enjoying it even though the story doesn&#8217;t have much to do with violets.<\/li><li>I keep buying books. I know I shouldn&#8217;t, but I can&#8217;t seem to help myself. Among my recent purchases are some sequels to books that I really enjoyed. I will read those as soon as they arrive, because I&#8217;m looking forward to them. I also ordered some nonfiction books about puzzles and gardening with native plants.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished Barbara Michaels&#8217;s The Master of Blacktower, a generally entertaining Gothic romance set in the Highlands of Scotland. I have read all of her novels now except four. I&#8217;m a little sad to be approaching the end of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20129,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20127\/revisions\/20129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}