{"id":5907,"date":"2014-12-03T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2015-01-24T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:41:13","slug":"books-read-november-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/12\/03\/books-read-november-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read November"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nNine books read this month, which began strongly but petered out a bit as a couple of tough books slowed me down.\n<\/p>\n

\nSchitterende Wereld<\/a><\/cite> — Mel Hartman
\nA disappointing collection of sf short stories based on an interesting concept: twelve stories based on the work of six world famous scientists.\n<\/p>\n

\nBroken Homes<\/a><\/cite> — Ben Aaronovitch
\nFourth in a series about a hapless London police officer being caught up in its magical underworld.\n<\/p>\n

\nStyx<\/a><\/cite> — Bavo Dhooge
\nA bent cop in Oostende returns from the death as a zombie to bring a serial killer to justice\n<\/p>\n

\nTer Ziele<\/a><\/cite> — Esther Scherpenisse
\nSometimes Death has pity for a dying person and brings them to its palace….\n<\/p>\n

\nA History of the Vandals<\/a><\/cite> — Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen
\nA decent introduction to the history of the Vandals, one of the few such actually available in English.\n<\/p>\n

\nCaptain Vorpatril\u2019s Alliance<\/cite> — Lois McMaster Bujold
\nThe latest so far in the Vorkosigan saga, now starring Miles cousin, that idiot Ivan.\n<\/p>\n

\nFuries: War in Europe 1450-1700<\/a><\/cite> — Lauro Martines
\nA distressing look at warfare in Early Modern Europe.\n<\/p>\n

\nWho Fears Death<\/a><\/cite> — Nnedi Okorafor
\nOkorafor’s first adult novel, a harrowing coming of age tale & quest story.\n<\/p>\n

\nHet Laatste Verhaal<\/a><\/cite> — Guido Eekhaut
\nIn the near future republic of Flanders, two street outcasts team up with a Japanese woman from an alternate world who has a sword that can cut through time and space…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine books read this month, which began strongly but petered out a bit as a couple of tough books slowed me down. Schitterende Wereld — Mel Hartman A disappointing collection of sf short stories based on an interesting concept: twelve stories based on the work of six world famous scientists. Broken Homes — Ben Aaronovitch […]<\/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-5907","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\/5907","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=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}