{"id":413,"date":"2001-02-15T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-15T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=413"},"modified":"2001-02-15T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-15T18:07:00","slug":"413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Some books I’ve finished recently:<\/p>\n

Shadow of the Hegemon<\/a>, by Orson Scott Card. Newest book in the Bean series, a follow-on to Card’s earlier success Ender’s Game and its sequels. Good fun sci-fi, not too heavy. An entertaining way to waste some quality time. 3 out of 5.<\/p>\n

Thirtynothing<\/a>, by Lisa Jewell. A fun, romantic book about a couple of old friends who should have been together years ago but somehow haven’t figured it out yet. Funny, poignant, up to date and very well written. 4 out of 5.<\/p>\n

e: A Novel<\/a>, by Matt Beaumont. A modern epistolary novel about the internal machinations within a London advertising agency going after the Holy Grail: the Coca Cola account. The entire book is a series of emails between the employees that track their disastrous progress, petty squabbles, and dirty little scandals. Wonderful fun. 5 out of 5.<\/p>\n

Look to Windward<\/a>
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, by Iain M. Banks. The master of science fiction takes another look at the Culture, with a sprawling story of an assassin sent to take revenge by destroying an Orbital and the billions of people who inhabit it. Not his best book, but worth your time nonetheless. 4 out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some books I’ve finished recently: Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card. Newest book in the Bean series, a follow-on to Card’s earlier success Ender’s Game and its sequels. Good fun sci-fi, not too heavy. An entertaining way to waste some quality time. 3 out of 5. Thirtynothing, by Lisa Jewell. A fun, romantic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}