{"id":422,"date":"2010-08-11T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-08-20T05:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T10:51:52","slug":"timing-is-everything%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Timing is Everything\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Stuart MacBride\u2019s first and sixth novels (<strong>Cold Granite<\/strong> and <strong>Dark Blood<\/strong>) bundled together at Costco about a month ago. I\u2019ve since purchased his second novel (<strong>Dying Light<\/strong>) and his other two currently out are on my wish list at amazon.ca. On the reading front, I\u2019m well into Dying Light and enjoying every word of it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve ordered books from Amazon.co.uk on occasion and get recommendations from them on an ongoing basis. Well, this morning I received their current recommendations and if it wasn\u2019t the full set of Stuart MacBride books and there\u2019s a seventh one (hardcover) available for pre-order!<\/p>\n<p>I wish there would have been someone at home when the e-mail came in to share the irony of it all with. I did forward the e-mail to my girlfriend with the same subject as this post. So far I\u2019ve not heard back from her. Maybe she\u2019s still rolling about on the floor in fits of laughter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Stuart MacBride\u2019s first and sixth novels (Cold Granite and Dark Blood) bundled together at Costco about a month ago. I\u2019ve since purchased his second novel (Dying Light) and his other two currently out are on my wish list at amazon.ca. On the reading front, I\u2019m well into Dying Light and enjoying every word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Timing is Everything\u2026<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Timing is Everything\u2026 - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=422\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Timing is Everything\u2026 - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I bought Stuart MacBride\u2019s first and sixth novels (Cold Granite and Dark Blood) bundled together at Costco about a month ago. 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