{"id":2597,"date":"2010-11-02T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/11\/02\/books-read-october-2\/"},"modified":"2014-06-28T06:22:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T11:22:57","slug":"books-read-october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/11\/02\/books-read-october-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI was going to read more this month, but my <cite>Essentials<\/cite> project got in the way. <a href=\"http:\/\/antickmusings.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/book-day-2010-epic-index.html\">Unlike some bloggers<\/a>, I don&#8217;t count comics towards my book reading. It just feels like cheating. So only four books this month, all science fiction or fantasy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>The Restoration Game<\/cite> &#8212; Ken MacLeod<br \/>\nKen&#8217;s latest novel is as good as always, but somewhat of a departure from his last few, more philosophical perhaps.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Brass Man<\/cite> &#8212; Neal Asher<br \/>\nAnother almost indecypherable <cite>Polity<\/cite> novel depending for its impact on a lot of prior knowledge on the part of the reader, knowledge I don&#8217;t have. It reminds me of first getting to grips with the Marvel Universe, the same hints about earlier stories being dropped, the same characters with unexplained backstories. I like that sort of thing, you may not.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>The Ship of Ishtar<\/cite> &#8212; A. Merritt<br \/>\nA classic pulp fantasy story from 1924, long before Tolkien codified our expectations of that genre. Interesting to read, but every now and again needs effort to continue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2010\/11\/komarr-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/\">Komarr<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Lois McMaster Bujold<br \/>\nThe first book in a campaign to make up for my deficiencies in reading science fiction and fantasy written by women. A reread of the first Miles Vorkosigan novel I&#8217;d ever read. What struck me this time was how quietly feminist this book is, something I need to write about in greater detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to read more this month, but my Essentials project got in the way. Unlike some bloggers, I don&#8217;t count comics towards my book reading. It just feels like cheating. So only four books this month, all science fiction or fantasy. The Restoration Game &#8212; Ken MacLeod Ken&#8217;s latest novel is as good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}