{"id":11125,"date":"2013-12-09T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:49:43","slug":"the-books-of-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11125","title":{"rendered":"The Books of November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fables<\/a>: Fairest In All the Land<\/a><\/i>\u00a0 (2013) Bill Willingham et al (8\/10)<\/p>\n

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Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jar City<\/a><\/i> (2000\/2004) Arnaldur Indridason translated by Bernard Scudder (7\/10)
\nThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie<\/a> <\/i>\u00a0(2009) Alan Bradley (8\/10)
\nTreasure Hunt<\/a> <\/i>(2010\/2013) Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli <\/i> (8\/10)
\nBad Blood<\/a><\/i> (2013) Dana Stabenow (1\/10)<\/p>\n

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Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written In Red<\/a> <\/i>\u00a0(2013) Anne Bishop (8.5\/10)
\nChimes at Midnight<\/a><\/i> \u00a0(2013) Seanan McGuire (6\/10)
\nFated<\/a><\/i> \u00a0(2012) Benedict Jacka (6.5\/10)
\nDeadly Descendant<\/a><\/i> \u00a0(2012) Jenna Black (6\/10)
\nDark Descendant<\/a> <\/i>(2011) Jenna Black (7\/10)
\nLibriomancer<\/a><\/i> (2012) Jim C. Hines (6\/10)
\nBlood and Bullets<\/a><\/i> (2012) James R. Tuck (6\/10)<\/p>\n

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Short Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scarlet Sails<\/a><\/i> \u00a0(2013) TS Rhodes (7\/10)<\/p>\n

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Anthology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives<\/a><\/i> \u00a0(2001) edited by Justin Gustainis (7\/10)
\nThe Collected Short Stories<\/a><\/i> \u00a0(2013) Dana Stabenow (8\/10)<\/p>\n

Fifteen books this month, most of which were read at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

As far as good books, mysteries beat out fantasies by a long shot, with the exception of the first book I read in November, Anne Bishop’s Written in Red<\/strong> (Thanks Neurondoc!)<\/p>\n

Genre-wise, fantasy and mystery were pretty easily matched. That might not hold for December, because I’ve started reading some mysteries series I picked up cheap for the kindle and REALLY like them. They follow the trend of mysteries set in other countries and initially written in a language other than English. So I’ll get to redo that list soon.<\/p>\n

Anthology 2
\nComic 1
\nFantasy 9
\nMystery 7
\nRomance 1<\/p>\n

Format? Once again eBooks blew away all other formats. All paper books were new releases of series I have been reading for years and plan to keep getting in paper format.<\/p>\n

Paperback 1
\nTrade Paperback 2
\neBook 12<\/p>\n

Gender split for the month was pretty even.<\/p>\n

Male 6
\nFemale 6
\nInitials 1
\nAnthology 2<\/p>\n

8 female authors, 6 male authors, and an anthology heavily weighted towards female authors. Pretty good.<\/p>\n

There you go. That’s last month’s round-up. Remember, if you click through to Amazon from the links on the reviews, I get some pennies towards MORE BOOKS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comics Fables: Fairest In All the Land\u00a0 (2013) Bill Willingham et al (8\/10)   Mystery Jar City (2000\/2004) Arnaldur Indridason translated by Bernard Scudder (7\/10) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie \u00a0(2009) Alan Bradley (8\/10) Treasure Hunt (2010\/2013) Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli (8\/10) Bad Blood (2013) Dana Stabenow (1\/10)   Fantasy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2Tr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}