{"id":433,"date":"2004-12-31T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T09:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2004-12-31T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T09:56:47","slug":"top_10_books_of_2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Books of 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there are definitely more but I just can&#8217;t remember what I&#8217;ve read! I remember having read lots of good books this year but off the top of my head I can&#8217;t quite recall every one of them now. So here&#8217;s the off-the-top-of-my-head list.<br \/>\n1) Only a Sandpiper: Appreciating Classical Chinese Poetry by Li Lienfung &#8212; Thanks to overacuppa and Fatgirl, I now have the book sitting nicely on my shelf!<br \/>\n2) The Time Traveller&#8217;s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger<br \/>\n3) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris<br \/>\n4) Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris<br \/>\n5) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon<br \/>\n6) French Lessons: Adventures with the Knife, Fork, and Cockscrew by Peter Mayle<br \/>\n7) Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto<br \/>\n8) Toast by Nigel Slater<br \/>\n9) Battle at the Red Cliff: A Guide to Three Kingdoms by Li Lienfung<br \/>\n10) Ladyfingers &#038; Nun&#8217;s Tummies: A Lighthearted Look At How Foods Got Their Names by Martha Barnette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there are definitely more but I just can&#8217;t remember what I&#8217;ve read! I remember having read lots of good books this year but off the top of my head I can&#8217;t quite recall every one of them now. So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}