{"id":4463,"date":"2013-02-05T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2014-02-03T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:06:02","slug":"books-read-january-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/02\/05\/books-read-january-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSo we start the sixth year of doing these monthly Wot I Done Read Last Month reports. Back in 2008 I started doing them to at least record something about the books I&#8217;d read, as I felt guilty about falling behind with my <a href=\"\/books2\/\">booklog<\/a>; something which hasn&#8217;t been solved yet. Oh well.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the meantime, I&#8217;ve read five books this month, somewhat below par.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Soul Music<\/cite>, <cite>Interesting Times<\/cite> &#8212; Terry Pratchett<br \/>\nTwo Pratchett novels, of which the latter shows the return of Rincewind and the former stars Susan the first time. Decent but not the best of the Discworld series.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Exit Music<\/cite> &#8212; Ian Rankin<br \/>\nThe last Rebus novel, as he&#8217;s finally retiring. Some loose ends are cleaned up, some aren&#8217;t. Even more melancholy and sombre than usual.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/02\/the-dark-reign-of-gothic-rock-dave-thompson\/\">The Dark Reign of Gothic Rock<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Dave Thompson<br \/>\nA decent chronological history of a sometimes deservedly, much maligned genre, that is smart enough to limit itself to a specific period and grouping of bands, the original English gothic bands like Bauhaus, the Cure and the Cult.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Maskerade<\/cite> &#8212; Terry Pratchett<br \/>\nAnother Discworld novel, starring the Lancre witches. Doing opera this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we start the sixth year of doing these monthly Wot I Done Read Last Month reports. Back in 2008 I started doing them to at least record something about the books I&#8217;d read, as I felt guilty about falling behind with my booklog; something which hasn&#8217;t been solved yet. Oh well. In the meantime, [&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-4463","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\/4463","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=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}