{"id":6846,"date":"2015-11-23T16:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2015-11-23T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:50:11","slug":"books-read-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/11\/23\/books-read-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYes, November has almost finished and I still haven&#8217;t put up what I read in October. Looking back at my <a href=\"\n\/wissewords2\/?s=%22books+read%22&#038;submit=Search\">monthly reading roundups<\/a> you can really see where I started to lose interest and went for watching anime over more literary pursuits. I just haven&#8217;t had the energy or concentration to focus on books, since at least July or so. That&#8217;s the first time that&#8217;s happened since I started <a href=\"\/books2\/\">my booklog<\/a>. So this month again there are only two books I remember reading:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Deconstructing the Starships<\/cite> &#8212; Gwyneth Jones<br \/>\na collection of essays and reviews on fantasy and science fiction dating back to the early to mid nineties. Interesting, even if I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with Jones&#8217; opinions. Also interesting to read this a decade and a half after publication, with enough time passed to see which burning issues of the day sizzled out and which are still ongoing concerns.\n<\/p>\n<p><cite>The Rhesus chart<\/cite> &#8212; Charlie Stross<br \/>\nA <cite>Laundry<\/cite> novel I bought when Charlie came to Amsterdam for a book signing, but I don&#8217;t seem to actually have gotten it signed. A scrum team of high end banking IT nerds independently invents vampirism, things get worse from there on out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, November has almost finished and I still haven&#8217;t put up what I read in October. Looking back at my monthly reading roundups you can really see where I started to lose interest and went for watching anime over more literary pursuits. I just haven&#8217;t had the energy or concentration to focus on books, since [&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-6846","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\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}