{"id":6323,"date":"2015-04-12T08:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T13:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2015-08-03T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T21:07:30","slug":"books-read-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/04\/12\/books-read-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nReally? I&#8217;ve only read four novels this month? Apparantly so. Granted, most of the month was spent <a href=\"\/books2\/2015\/02\/a-short-story-a-day-keeps-the-critic-at-bay\/\">reading through this list of short fiction<\/a>, but even so, this is disappointing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2015\/08\/juniper-time-kate-wilhelm\/\">Juniper Time<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Kate Wilhelm<br \/>\nRead for Joachim Boaz&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/05\/update-kate-wilhelm-guest-post-series\/\">Kate Wilhelm review series<\/a>. This is one of the novels the cyberpunks were rebelling against.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite><a href=\"\/books2\/2015\/03\/reaper-man-terry-pratchett\/\">Reaper Man<\/a><\/cite> &#8212; Terry Pratchett<br \/>\nI read this in the wake of the news of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s death, his most fitting novel as it revolves around mortality and DEATH.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>The Shining Girls<\/cite> &#8212; Lauren Beukes<br \/>\nSerial killer horror is not my thing as it so often puts its sympathies with the killer more than with their victims; cf. <cite>The Silence of the Lambs<\/cite>. Beukes however keeps her sympathies firmly where they belong, showing the waste and destruction the killer engages in without glamourising it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>King&#8217;s Dragon<\/cite> &#8212; Kate Elliott<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s unfair. Here I was expecting at best a compentently written epic fantasy story, but instead Elliott made me think, by never choosing the lazy option, by actually creating a medievaloid fantasy world that is more than just modern people in medieval drag. It also has one of the most harrowing depictions of the psychology of domestic abuse I&#8217;ve read in any novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really? I&#8217;ve only read four novels this month? Apparantly so. Granted, most of the month was spent reading through this list of short fiction, but even so, this is disappointing. Juniper Time &#8212; Kate Wilhelm Read for Joachim Boaz&#8217;s Kate Wilhelm review series. This is one of the novels the cyberpunks were rebelling against. Reaper [&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-6323","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\/6323","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=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}