{"id":4861,"date":"2013-11-03T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2013-12-01T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:53:21","slug":"books-read-october-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/11\/03\/books-read-october-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read October"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI finally picked up the pace somewhat this month, with seven books read.\n<\/p>\n

\nFledgling<\/cite> — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
\nAnother free novel set in their Liaden universe, this is a classic coming of age science fiction novel, amusing but perhaps better read when you’re twelve.\n<\/p>\n

\n1938 Hitler’s Gamble<\/cite> — Giles MacDonogh
\nA very useful overview of the political and military events that shaped the last year of peace before World War II, showing how opportunistic Hitler’s policies were.\n<\/p>\n

\nFilthy English<\/cite> — Peter Silverton
\nAn amusing overview of bad language of all kinds.\n<\/p>\n

\nVast<\/a><\/cite> — Linda Nagata
\nHard science fiction of a subgenre that also includes Alastair Reynolds’ revelation Space<\/cite> and Paul McAuley’s Eternal Light<\/cite>: humantiy stumbles over the remains of a millions of years old war and is hunted to extinction by the left over killing machines of the war. I hadn’t read anything by Nagata yet, save for perhaps some short stories but on the strength of this she’s a writer I need to read more off.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Battle for the Rhine 1944<\/cite> — Robin Neillands
\nAn overview of the campaign in western Europe from Normandy up until the Battle of the Bugle and very concerned with putting the record straight with regards to Montgomery’s part in the war.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Eye with Which the Universe Beholds Itself<\/cite> — Ian Sales
\nSecond chapbook in the Apollo Quartet<\/cite>, this is alternate history hard science fiction about a slightly more ambitious Apollo programme.\n<\/p>\n

\nChild of the Grove<\/cite> — Tanya Huff
\nI like her military science fiction so I thought I’d check out her fantasy work as well. A decent but weirdly paced novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally picked up the pace somewhat this month, with seven books read. Fledgling — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller Another free novel set in their Liaden universe, this is a classic coming of age science fiction novel, amusing but perhaps better read when you’re twelve. 1938 Hitler’s Gamble — Giles MacDonogh A very useful […]<\/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-4861","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\/4861","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=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}