{"id":3096,"date":"2011-07-16T10:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/07\/16\/abc-book-sale-loot\/"},"modified":"2011-07-16T10:24:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T15:24:43","slug":"abc-book-sale-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/07\/16\/abc-book-sale-loot\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC book sale loot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/abc-sale-loot.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"648\" alt=\"Pile of books I bought in the ABC sale\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAbove is the pile of books I bought in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehouse.abc.nl\/index.php?page=details&#038;itemid=1177\">ABC book sale<\/a>: five euros per kilo of books, bring large bags. All of this cost me twentyfive euros, which is not bad for thirteen books. From top to bottom:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>The Edge of Reason<\/cite> &#8212; Melinda Snodgrass. This looked okayish and it&#8217;s a writer I haven&#8217;t read anything from so I took a punt<\/li>\n<li><cite>Wyrdest Link<\/cite> &#8212; Pratchett and Langford: Discworld quiz book<\/li>\n<li><cite>Africa<\/cite> &#8211;John Reader. One volume history of the continent<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Extremes<\/cite> &#8212; Christopher Priest<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Cretan Runner<\/cite> &#8212; George Psychoundakis. A classic schlachtbummeler book, about the occupation of Crete in WWII<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Vengeance of Rome<\/cite> &#8212; Michael Moorcock. Last of the Colonel Pryat Quartet<\/li>\n<li><cite>Mythago Wood<\/cite> &#8212; Robert Holdstock. Read this in the library decades ago, this is the twentyfifth anniversay edition<\/li>\n<li><cite>A Distant Mirror<\/cite> &#8212; Barbara Tuchman. Replacement copy as mine had split in half<\/li>\n<li><cite>Beat Master&#8217;s Planet<\/cite> &#8212; Andre Norton. Collection of two classic novels, best known for inspiring the not that bad Marc Singer movie<\/li>\n<li><cite>Tiptree Award Anthology Vol. 2<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite>Whoops<\/cite> &#8212; John Lanchester: I recognised his name from his articles about the economic crisis in the <cite>LBR<\/cite>; this is the book treatment of same <\/li>\n<li><cite>The Half-Made World<\/cite> &#8212; Felix Gilman.  A much discussed book in sf&#038;f circles<\/li>\n<li><cite>Penny Arcade vol. 2<\/cite> More reprints of the webcomic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is the pile of books I bought in the ABC book sale: five euros per kilo of books, bring large bags. All of this cost me twentyfive euros, which is not bad for thirteen books. From top to bottom: The Edge of Reason &#8212; Melinda Snodgrass. This looked okayish and it&#8217;s a writer I [&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-3096","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\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}