{"id":3911,"date":"2012-06-30T17:08:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2012-07-01T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T20:27:44","slug":"books-read-june-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/06\/30\/books-read-june-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read June"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSeven books this month, mainly fiction:\n<\/p>\n

\nIntrusion<\/a><\/cite> — Ken MacLeod
\nWhat if the power to make the wrong decisions is taken from you, what if you want to make your own decisions without justifying yourself to others, not want to take up the shield of a religion to justify refusing what’s for your own good?\n<\/p>\n

\nSomething Wicked this Way Comes<\/cite> — Ray Bradbury
\nSandra gave me this as a present some years ago, because we had been talking about Bradbury for some reason; I read it after his death. A great American fantasy\/horror classic, full of his peculiar brand of nostalgia without his sometimes cloying sentimentality\n<\/p>\n

\nTestament of Youth<\/cite> — Vera Brittain
\nA book drenched in grief and sorrow from the first page, though still with somewhat of a happy ending. Vera Brittain’s autobiography centers on the Great War and the men she lost through them: her lover, her brother, her friends as well as her struggle to live with these losses. Its matter of factness is what gives it its power.\n<\/p>\n

\nTsing-Boum<\/cite> — Nicolas Freeling
\nThe French wife of a Dutch military man is murdered in her flat, shot six times with a machine pistol, as a gangster serial is playing on the tv, drowning the noise. A professional killing, but why this woman?\n<\/p>\n

\nCop Killer<\/cite> — Sjowall & Wahloo
\nGloomy seventies Scandinavian police procedural, the ur-well of all those Hennings and Bridges and other fashionable Nordic thrillers.\n<\/p>\n

\nCriminal Conversation<\/cite> — Nicolas Freeling
\nA highly placed banker accusses an equally highly placed doctor of murder and inspector van der Valk has to play a psychological game to find out the truth.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe Who Are About to…<\/a><\/cite> — Joanna Russ
\nWhen a starship crashlands on an alien world far from home, all but one woman see it as their duty to restart civilisation there. This is the story of that one woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven books this month, mainly fiction: Intrusion — Ken MacLeod What if the power to make the wrong decisions is taken from you, what if you want to make your own decisions without justifying yourself to others, not want to take up the shield of a religion to justify refusing what’s for your own good? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","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\/3911","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=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}