{"id":5545,"date":"2014-08-02T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2014-08-02T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:53:59","slug":"books-read-july-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/08\/02\/books-read-july-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read July"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nBecause I decided to go to Loncon as you may have noticed, this month my reading was dominated by Hugo related works, but I still managed to fit three more novels than last month in:\n<\/p>\n

\nHurricane Fever<\/a><\/cite> — Tobias Buckell
\nA fast moving near future thriller set in a Caribbean menaced by almost constant hurricanes. Read because Tobias Buckell was kind enough to provide a review copy.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Lives of Tao<\/a><\/cite> — Wesley Chu
\nWesley Chu is one of the candidates for the Campbell Best New Writer award this year and this provided as part of the voting package. A decent adventure read, but nothing special.\n<\/p>\n

\nA Stranger in Olondria<\/cite> — Sofia Samatar
\nAnother candidate for the Campbell, Sofia Samatar got my vote on the strength of this novel, a fantasy travelogue set in a world that’s not your average medievaloid setting.\n<\/p>\n

\nThree Parts Dead<\/cite> — Max Gladstone
\nAnother candidate, this was a great secondary world\/urban fantasy story about a chartered accountant (more or less) investigating the death of a god.\n<\/p>\n

\nMoon over Soho<\/cite> — Ben Aaronovitch
\nAn urban fantasy murder mystery set in contemporary London; part of a series.\n<\/p>\n

\nSix Gun Snow White<\/cite> — Catherynne M. Valente
\nMy vote for the Best Novella Hugo, this retelling of the Snow White fairytale set in the Wild West, was published as a short novel. (And would’ve been a normal length novel forty years or so.)\n<\/p>\n

\nDeep Wizardry<\/cite> — Diane Duane
\nSecond in the Young Wizards series. This almost made me cry. Almost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I decided to go to Loncon as you may have noticed, this month my reading was dominated by Hugo related works, but I still managed to fit three more novels than last month in: Hurricane Fever — Tobias Buckell A fast moving near future thriller set in a Caribbean menaced by almost constant hurricanes. […]<\/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-5545","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\/5545","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=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}