{"id":98,"date":"2006-03-05T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/05\/new-book-reviews\/"},"modified":"2006-03-05T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T07:52:05","slug":"new-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/05\/new-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Tor party at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/02\/boskone_43.php\">Boskone<\/a>, Teresa Nielsen Hayden introduced me to Jim Kelly as &#8220;a reviewer.&#8221; While technically somewhat accurate (I do occasionally post book reviews), and a better answer to &#8220;Why are you at this party?&#8221; than &#8220;I&#8217;m a guy with a web site,&#8221; it made me feel a little guilty for shamefully neglecting my book log these past few months.<\/p>\n<p><P>Guilt is a wonderful spur to action, so I&#8217;ve posted a bunch of reviews over there this weekend, all of them at least vaguely related to Boskone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/2006_03_01_libarchive.php#114152227968961506\"><cite>The Steerswoman<\/cite><\/a> by Rosemary Kirstein<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/2006_03_01_libarchive.php#114152517001979749\"><cite>Crystal Rain<\/cite><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/tobiasbuckell.com\/wordpress\/\">Tobias Buckell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/2006_03_01_libarchive.php#114152699919404272\"><cite>Permanence<\/cite><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kschroeder.com\/blog\">Karl Schroeder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/2006_03_01_libarchive.php#114152858040255525\"><cite>The Ghost Brigades<\/cite><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/\">John Scalzi<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, Kate and I went on a shoppng run yesterday afternoon, during which I bought three more books (along with two external hard drives and a new printer), and another three arrived in the mail from amazon.co.uk, so I continue to acquire new books faster than I can read and review old ones. But then, there are worse problems to have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Tor party at Boskone, Teresa Nielsen Hayden introduced me to Jim Kelly as &#8220;a reviewer.&#8221; While technically somewhat accurate (I do occasionally post book reviews), and a better answer to &#8220;Why are you at this party?&#8221; than &#8220;I&#8217;m a guy with a web site,&#8221; it made me feel a little guilty for shamefully&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/05\/new-book-reviews\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Book Reviews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}