{"id":12265,"date":"2015-05-03T18:39:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12265"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:48:16","slug":"the-books-of-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12265","title":{"rendered":"The Books of April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow reading month, for the good reason of Being Outside Doing Stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Historical Fiction \/ Mystery<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Lord John Grey<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5222\">Lord John and the Private Matter<\/a><\/em> (2003) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gabaldon_diana.php\">Diana Gabaldon<\/a> (9\/10)<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5228\">Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade<\/a><\/em> (2007) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gabaldon_diana.php\">Diana Gabaldon<\/a> (8\/10)<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5231\">Lord John and the Hand of Devils<\/a><\/em> (2007) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gabaldon_diana.php\">Diana Gabaldon<\/a> (8.5\/10)<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5235\">The Custom of the Army<\/a><\/em> (2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gabaldon_diana.php\">Diana Gabaldon<\/a> (8\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystery<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Inspector Montalbano<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5216\">Game of Mirrors<\/a><\/em> (2011\/2015) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/camilleri_andrea.php\">Andrea Camilleri<\/a> translated by Stephen Sartarelli \u00a0(7.5\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supernatural Fantasy<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Felix Castor<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5205\">Dead Men\u2019s Boots<\/a><\/em> (2007) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/carey_mike.php\">Mike Carey<\/a> \u00a0(8\/10)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5208\">A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark<\/a><\/em> (2014) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/connolly_harry.php\">Harry Connolly<\/a> \u00a0(6\/10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rivers of London<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5225\"><em>Foxglove Summer<\/em>, Audible Version<\/a> (2015\/2015) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/aaronovitch_ben.php\">Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith \u00a0(10\/10)<\/p>\n<p>So I only read eight books, but that&#8217;s okay because I got to spent lots of time outside, hiking.<\/p>\n<p>Book format was heavily ebook, with the only non-ebook being an audio book. (Audio books are going slowly right now, because I have an occasional lunchtime walking partner, which cuts into my audio book time.)<\/p>\n<p>Genre was heavily mystery, with the three fantasy books also being mysteries. The single fiction book is the final Lord John book, which doesn&#8217;t have a whole lot of mystery compared to the previous books.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy: 3<br \/>\nMystery: 7<br \/>\nFiction: 1<\/p>\n<p>Gender was evenly split, 4:4 with female authors still slightly ahead for the year (but they don&#8217;t look to stay that way, since I&#8217;m currently re-reading te Inspector Montalbano).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow reading month, for the good reason of Being Outside Doing Stuff. Historical Fiction \/ Mystery Lord John Grey Lord John and the Private Matter (2003) Diana Gabaldon (9\/10) Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (2007) Diana Gabaldon (8\/10) Lord John and the Hand of Devils (2007) Diana Gabaldon (8.5\/10) The Custom of [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12265","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-3bP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265","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=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}