{"id":327,"date":"2010-08-31T22:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2010-08-31T22:24:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T03:24:11","slug":"more-awesome-1-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/more-awesome-1-08\/","title":{"rendered":"More Awesome 1.08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August I made up for my slacking in July \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>To start the month, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vintage-Affair-Novel-Isabel-Wolff\/dp\/0553807838\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1282946037&amp;sr=1-1\">A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It was an interesting story about loss, grief and forgiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 Though the actual plot felt like that was almost secondary to the descriptions of vintage clothing.\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoyed the descriptions of the vintage clothing, as it is a fondness of mine.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of August, I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paris-Vendetta-Novel-Steve-Berry\/dp\/0345505476\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1282946015&amp;sr=1-1\">Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the 5th book in the Cotton Malone series.\u00c2\u00a0 I really enjoy Steve Berry&#8217;s books and I&#8217;ve read them all to date.\u00c2\u00a0 I really enjoyed the book and there were actually some events I didn&#8217;t anticipate, which was a nice change for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Normally when I read action or mystery books I figure it out early in the story.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have it all figured out, which I loved.<\/p>\n<p>To wrap up the month, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rework-Jason-Fried\/dp\/0307463745\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1\">Rework by Jason Fried &amp; David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a> of 37signals.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d heard a lot of good things about the book.\u00c2\u00a0 It was pretty good, but nothing in the book really felt revolutionary to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course I didn&#8217;t read it for a revolutionary experience, so it met my expectations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crush-Time-Cash-Your-Passion\/dp\/0061914177\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1282945892&amp;sr=8-1\">Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m really enjoying it, but it doesn&#8217;t count towards my goal :)\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably do a separate post on that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August I made up for my slacking in July \ud83d\ude42 To start the month, I read A Vintage Affair<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/more-awesome-1-08\/\" title=\"Read More Awesome 1.08\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[65,72,71,73,18,66,70,67,69,68],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raebelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}