{"id":770,"date":"2005-12-23T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2005-12-23T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T09:32:41","slug":"top_10_books_of_2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Books of 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, I haven&#8217;t done as much reading as I wanted to, I mean, if time permitted, I would devour every book on my wishlist! So anyways, here are the top 10 books for me this year (in no particular order of preference).<br \/>\n1) Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl<br \/>\n2) Stalking the Green Fairy: and Other Fantastic Adventures in Food and Drink by James Villas<br \/>\n3) Between Bites: Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist by James Villas<br \/>\n4) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss<br \/>\n5) The Perfectionist: Life &#038; Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski<br \/>\n6) With Love &#038; Irony by Lin Yutang<br \/>\n7) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi<br \/>\n8) Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life by Mimi Sheraton<br \/>\n9) A Cook&#8217;s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain<br \/>\n10) The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, I haven&#8217;t done as much reading as I wanted to, I mean, if time permitted, I would devour every book on my wishlist! So anyways, here are the top 10 books for me this year (in no particular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=770\">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-770","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\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}