{"id":2762,"date":"2025-09-03T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:37:51","slug":"top-books-of-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2025\/09\/03\/top-books-of-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Books of August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Poppy War by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfkuang.com\/\">R.F. Kuang<\/a><br>This book was so well-written and filled with so many cool details and characters. Rin has worked hard her entire life, so when her parents announce that she&#8217;ll be married off, her hard work gone to waste, she decides to act. She studies for the notoriously hard civil service exams, and someone pulls through, plunging her into a world of danger and intelligence. This was such a well-written book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanskari Sweetheart by <a href=\"https:\/\/ananyadevarajan.com\/\">Ananya Devarajan<\/a><br>This was an amazing, sweet book about Raina, who needs to prove to her mom that she can make dance a career. But in doing so, she&#8217;s pushing away everyone close to her. She realizes this when she gets stuck in a timeloop, forced to repeat the day over and over until she solves her problem. This book was super cute and interesting!<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliversacks.com\/\">Oliver Sacks<\/a><br>This was such an interesting collection of stories that detailed different medical conditions- from <em>lacking<\/em> certain sensations or images to feeling <em>too many<\/em> sensations. I learned a lot from this book and every story was incredibly interesting.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Love Craves Cardamom by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aashnaavachat.com\/\">Aashna Avachat<\/a><br>This was such a cute book! Archi is planning to have the best senior year overseas in India. She needs to complete her capstone project and she gets to do it in her parents&#8217; homeland. And, she meets a cute guy who really likes her. But when she realizes not everything is as it seems, life gets complicated. This was such a well-written and sweet book and I really enjoyed it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,713,38,311,1,384,93,638],"tags":[1486,69,1485,11,260,1484,1478,1482,1483,1477,436,90],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-characters","category-hobbies","category-reading-hobbies","category-uncategorized","category-writing-hobbies","category-writing","category-young-adult","tag-aashna-avachat","tag-books","tag-love-craves-cardamom","tag-mint-girl","tag-mint-girl-writes","tag-oliver-sacks","tag-rf-kuang","tag-sanskari-sweetheart","tag-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat","tag-the-poppy-war","tag-top-books","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}