{"id":5959,"date":"2016-01-01T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2016-01-01T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:16:39","slug":"top-reads-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5959","title":{"rendered":"TOP READS OF 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following books were my favorites of the past year.\u00a0 There were some classics (more need to be read this year!) I read like <em>Beowulf<\/em> and <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em> by Shakespeare, but I do not include them here.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This list not mean they were published in 2015, though some of them were.\u00a0 I was able to do interviews with most of these writers.\u00a0 For those, you can head to my Amazon book review\/interview page:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/pdp\/profile\/AD6JNQ8EPWHGM\/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/pdp\/profile\/AD6JNQ8EPWHGM\/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Wilderness of Mirrors<\/em> by Mark Meynell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Spurgeon&#8217;s Sorrows<\/em> by Zack Eswine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dangerous Passions, Deadly Sins<\/em> by Dennis Okholm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Acedia and its Discontents<\/em> by R.J. Snell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War<\/em> by Joseph Loconte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Fellowship of Differents<\/em> by Scot McKnight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Erosion of Biblical Certainty<\/em> by Michael Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The War that Forged a Nation<\/em> by James McPherson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From Nature to Creation<\/em> by Norman Wirzba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Melville: His World and Work<\/em> by Andrew Delbanco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following books were my favorites of the past year.\u00a0 There were some classics (more need to be read this year!) I read like Beowulf and The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, but I do not include them here.\u00a0 This list not mean they were published in 2015, though some of them were.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}