{"id":5118,"date":"2015-12-16T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2016-01-04T07:42:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T12:42:59","slug":"last-minute-book-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5118","title":{"rendered":"Last-Minute Book Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5119\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5119\" class=\" wp-image-5119\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/5931135533_414219536b_z.jpg?resize=208%2C306\" alt=\"book gifts\" width=\"208\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo: Quinn Dombrowski, creative commons license)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is\u00a0 Santa still searching for a few perfect stocking-stuffers for the people on your list? Here&#8217;s some help.<\/p>\n<p>I scanned through the books I\u2019ve read and reviewed this year, and selected some for people having different interests.<\/p>\n<p>Included are a few lesser-known books, too. You don\u2019t need me to tell you about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=5048\"><em>Everything I Never Told You<\/em><\/a> (by definition!) or other front-of-the-store best-sellers.<\/p>\n<p>And, you&#8217;ll find <em>The Cowboy and the Cossack<\/em> there, once again, because everyone who takes my advice about it says it\u2019s one of the best books they\u2019ve ever read!<\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the title will take you to my review. If the lucky recipient likes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4910\">The Romanov Sisters<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Memoir: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4593\">Elsewhere<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sci-Fi: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4559\">The Water Knife<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4676\">Seveneves<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Novels flying Under the Radar: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4339\">Grand River &amp; Joy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4773\">The Long Fire<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Literary Fiction &amp; Prize-winners: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4401\">The Orphan Master\u2019s Son<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4506\">Against a Darkening Sky<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Classic Crime: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=3952\">The Long Goodbye<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4951\">Clockers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mystery &amp; Suspense <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4717\">Ghost Fleet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=4907\">On the Road with Del &amp; Louise<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adventure: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=3907\">City of Thieves<\/a>, <a href=\"The%20Man%20in%20the%20Wooden%20Hat,%20book%20review\">The Cowboy &amp; the Cossack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While you\u2019re at it\u2014buy two copies, one for yourself! Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is\u00a0 Santa still searching for a few perfect stocking-stuffers for the people on your list? Here&#8217;s some help. I scanned through the books I\u2019ve read and reviewed this year, and selected some for people having different interests. Included are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Last-Minute Book Gifts - best bets for people with different reading tastes","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[122,104],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-the-morgue","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1ky","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}