{"id":20846,"date":"2022-09-30T17:42:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=20846"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:07:02","slug":"a-rare-book-of-cunning-device-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20846","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Book of Cunning Device, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SIMsYz\">A Rare Book of Cunning Device<\/a><\/em>, Audio Edition (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/aaronovitch_ben.php\">Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SIMsYz\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/A-Rare-Book-of-Cunning-Device-e1511011965743.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Rare Book of Cunning Device\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9286\" \/><\/a>Just because this is such a fun story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Tell me that wasn\u2019t a spider?\u2019 said Ms Winstanley in a deceptively calm tone. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Can\u2019t have been,\u2019 I said. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Thank god for that,\u2019 she said. \u2018Can\u2019t stand spiders.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was too big,\u2019 I said. \u2018You can\u2019t scale an exoskeleton up that far.\u2019 The inverse square law can be such a comfort sometimes. Plus I definitely remembered something about gas diffusion and box lungs or something like that. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018So magic can\u2019t make things bigger?\u2019 asked Ms Winstanley, and I really wished she hadn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Publisher: Audible Studios<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rare Book of Cunning Device, Audio Edition (2017) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London) Just because this is such a fun story. \u2018Tell me that wasn\u2019t a spider?\u2019 said Ms Winstanley in a deceptively calm tone. \u2018Can\u2019t have been,\u2019 I said. \u2018Thank god for that,\u2019 she said. \u2018Can\u2019t stand spiders.\u2019 \u2018It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[13,37,30,204,42,41,35,34],"tags":[57,482,587,58],"class_list":["post-20846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-audio-book","category-british","category-good","category-police","category-reread","category-short-story","category-urban-fantasy","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-kobna-holdbrook-smith","tag-peter-grant","tag-rivers-of-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5qe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20909,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20909","url_meta":{"origin":20846,"position":0},"title":"Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"October 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection, Audio Edition (2020) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by: the author, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Ben Elliot, Felix Grainger, Sam Peter Jackson, Alex Kingston, Shvorne Marks, and Penelope Rawlins PART ONE: THE PETER GRANT STORIES The Home Crowd Advantage: set between Rivers of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8.5\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tales from the Folly","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tales-from-the-Folly.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9285,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9285","url_meta":{"origin":20846,"position":1},"title":"A Rare Book of Cunning Device, Audio Short Story","author":"Michelle","date":"September 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A Rare Book of Cunning Device, Audio Short Story (2017) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith This is a Peter Grant short story, available only as an audible short story (currently free). 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