{"id":4041,"date":"2012-08-01T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2012-10-18T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:51:55","slug":"books-read-july-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/08\/01\/books-read-july-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOnly six books read this month, mostly science fiction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Darkland<\/cite> &#8212; Liz Williams<br \/>\nFirst in a duology about a far future female secret agent with psionic powers who gets an assignment to hunt down the lover who abused her years ago. Much better than it sounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>The Apocalypse Codex<\/cite> &#8212; Charlie Stross<br \/>\nThe latest in Charlie&#8217;s horror\/spy thriller series, with the baddie this time being a charismatic tv preacher who is slightly more into that old time religion than is healthy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Blue Remembered Earth<\/cite> &#8212;  Alastair Reynolds<br \/>\nFeaturing a near future Africa that&#8217;s not a dystopian hellhole. When their grandmother, the family matriarch dies, Sunday andd Geoffrey Akinya against their will get involved in a Solar System wide scavenger hunt for her final legacy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2012\/08\/norman-london-william-fitz-stephen\/\">Norman London<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; William Fitz Stephen<\/cite><br \/>\nWilliam Fitz Stephen wrote a hagiography of Thomas Beckett and as an introduction to that, gave a portrait of the city of London as it existed in the 11th century. This short pamphlet is build around that text, with introduction, maps and essays giving a context to it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2012\/07\/the-british-character-pont\/\">The British Character<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Pont<br \/>\nA humorous collection of cartoons showing the idiosyncrasies of the British.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>The Fourth Wall<\/cite> &#8212; Walter Jon Williams<br \/>\nThird novel in the Dagmar Shaw series about alternate reality gamers changing the world. Excellent, compelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only six books read this month, mostly science fiction. Darkland &#8212; Liz Williams First in a duology about a far future female secret agent with psionic powers who gets an assignment to hunt down the lover who abused her years ago. Much better than it sounds. The Apocalypse Codex &#8212; Charlie Stross The latest in [&hellip;]<\/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-4041","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\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}