{"id":278,"date":"2008-07-14T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2008-07-14T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T12:42:00","slug":"what-am-i-reading-when-not-looking-up-new-authors-for-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/what-am-i-reading-when-not-looking-up-new-authors-for-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"What Am I Reading???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, after finishing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/E.-V.-Cunningham.html\">E. V. Cunningham<\/a>&#8216;s <strong>Masao Masuto Series<\/strong>, I went to my bookshelves and debated (with myself!) over\u00a0which book to read next&#8230;. I have (+\/-) two hundred books just waiting for me&#8230; which is a great feeling for someone who seems to have a compulsive\/obsessive disorder with order.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought that\u00a0 I would go for a <strong>true crime book<\/strong>&#8230; Every once in a while I like to &#8220;mix-it-up&#8221; and add in a book that will offer some change from my very\u00a0cozy mystery books, be it with a <strong>police procedural<\/strong>, <strong>gritty mystery<\/strong>, <strong>general fiction<\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Ann-Rule.html\">Ann Rule <\/a>in one hand and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Joseph-Wambaugh.html\">Joseph Wambaugh<\/a> book in the other&#8230; Hmmmmm&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; which book did I &#8220;feel like&#8221;!?! I enjoy both of these authors&#8217;\u00a0true crime so much&#8230; but was I in the mood for just that?<\/p>\n<p>You know how you sometimes\u00a0have a period of not quite knowing what you want to read next? Sometimes I can have that feeling for a few days at a time&#8230; when I deliberate over what I feel I want to read next&#8230; It&#8217;s at those times when I catch up\u00a0on reading my magazines and doing Sudoku puzzles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am always happy when I finally get out of one of those &#8220;not-reading&#8221; slumps, when I am so intent on finding the correct book for my mood that I actually spend no time reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, after finishing\u00a0E. V. Cunningham&#8216;s Masao Masuto Series, I went to my bookshelves and debated (with myself!) over\u00a0which book to read next&#8230;. I have (+\/-) two hundred books just waiting for me&#8230; which is a great feeling for someone who seems to have a compulsive\/obsessive disorder with order. At first I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-4u","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}