{"id":3136,"date":"2025-01-27T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T08:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:03:11","slug":"my-best-books-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/my-best-books-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best Books of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I note that my favored reading tends toward paranormal, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery, with a smattering of romance. Not really a surprise to me. I&#8217;m especially gleeful when an author skillfully combines more than one of those genres.\u00a0 The Martha Wells book cover is the first in her Murderbot Series and I gleefully devoured ALL of them. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3137 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Clover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"250\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3140 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Iron_Flame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3141 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Midnight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3142 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Murderbot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"250\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3143 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Nettle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"250\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3144 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Osman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3145 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Very_Secret_Society.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3138 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Defensive_Baking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3139 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Fourth_Wing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I note that my favored reading tends toward paranormal, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery, with a smattering of romance. Not really a surprise to me. I&#8217;m especially gleeful when an author skillfully combines more than one of those <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/my-best-books-of-2024\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[414,415,416,417,410,418,413,412,411],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-wizards-guide-to-defensive-baking-t-kingfisher","tag-fourth-wing-rebecca-yarros","tag-iron-flame","tag-midnight-at-the-houdini-delilah-s-dawson","tag-nettle-and-bone-t-kingfisher","tag-the-bullet-that-missed-richard-osman","tag-the-collected-regrets-of-clover-micki-brammer","tag-the-murderbot-diaries-martha-wells","tag-the-very-secret-society-of-irregular-witches-sangu-mandanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}