{"id":5117,"date":"2014-04-02T03:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T08:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2014-11-09T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T22:29:56","slug":"books-read-march-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/04\/02\/books-read-march-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI struggled with my reading this month, starting but not yet finishing several novels (<cite>The Creative Fire<\/cite>, <cite>Deathless<\/cite>), &#8220;Wasting&#8221; a lot of reading time. Two fantasy novels, one science fiction, two non-fiction books this week.\n<\/p?\n\n\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books\/dreamblood.html\">The Shadowed Sun<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; N. K. Jemisin<br \/>\nSecond in a duology of Egyptian inspired fantasy set on a world orbiting a gas giant, this one deals with the consequences of the end of the last one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/03\/dark-eden-chris-beckett\/\">Dark Eden<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Chris Beckett<br \/>\nThis won last year&#8217;s Arthur C. Clarke Award. It&#8217;s a decent enough sf heartland adventure story, but fell somewhat flat for me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>The European Colonial Empires 1815 &#8211; 1919<\/cite> &#8212; H. L. Wesseling<br \/>\nAn overview of the height of the European colonial system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/04\/what-makes-this-book-so-great-jo-walton-2\/\">What Makes this Book So Great<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Jo Walton<br \/>\nWhat makes this book so great is Jo Walton, who gets you passionate and interested in books you may never have considered otherwise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2014\/05\/blood-price-tanya-huff\/\">Blood Price<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Tanya Huff<br \/>\nFirst in an urban fantasy series. Not normally my cup of tea, but everything I&#8217;ve read of Huff I liked, so I bought more or less the entire series in one go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I struggled with my reading this month, starting but not yet finishing several novels (The Creative Fire, Deathless), &#8220;Wasting&#8221; a lot of reading time. Two fantasy novels, one science fiction, two non-fiction books this week.<\/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-5117","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\/5117","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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5833,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}