{"id":2032,"date":"2019-01-27T21:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T21:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?page_id=2032"},"modified":"2020-01-14T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:16:12","slug":"2019-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> For 2019, following the pattern of the last few years, I am not dividing books into separate category lists, but each review line will have a tag or two indicating what kind of book it is (and whether listened to as audiobook rather than read as kindle\/paperback). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Grasmere Grudge<\/strong> (2*)&#8230; Thriller, gave up part-way through<\/li><li><strong>The Citadel of the Autarch<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction \/ fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Brave New World<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Scarlet Pimpernel<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Historical fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Farthest Shore<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Land of the Green Man<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Non-fiction<\/li><li><strong>Sarah Canary<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction \/ fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Idea of North<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Non-fiction<\/li><li><strong>Recursion <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Illustrated Gnome News<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Steampunk\/fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Sword of the Lictor<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction \/ fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Path of the Storm<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Modern Naval fiction<\/li><li><strong>This is Your Brain on Music<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Non-fiction<\/li><li><strong>Valhalla Station<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Chill<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Detective<\/li><li><strong>The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Claw of the Conciliator<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction \/ fantasy <\/li><li><strong>Worlds Enough and Time<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Worlds Apart<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Immortal Yew<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Non-fiction<\/li><li><strong>A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Land God Gave to Cain<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Thriller<\/li><li><strong>Aurona <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction\/Young adult<\/li><li><strong>The Shadow of the Torturer<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction \/fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Hiero&#8217;s Journey<\/strong> (5*)&#8230;  Science fiction \/fantasy <\/li><li>The Lensman series &#8211; <strong>Galactic Patrol, Grey Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen, Children of the Lens<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Hemingway Hoax<\/strong> &#8211; audiobook (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Speaker for the Dead<\/strong> &#8211; audiobook (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Riddle of the Sands<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Thriller<\/li><li><strong>The Prophecy of Apollo<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Young Adult historical fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Hidden Life of Trees<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Non-fiction<\/li><li><strong>Whipping Star<\/strong> &#8211; audiobook (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Tombs of Atuan<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>A Scanner Darkly<\/strong> &#8211; audiobook (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Worlds <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Prisoners of Geography<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Non-fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Scribe&#8217;s Daughter<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Dark Orbit<\/strong> (5*)\u2026 Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Heavy Planet<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Suldrun&#8217;s Garden <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2019, following the pattern of the last few years, I am not dividing books into separate category lists, but each review line will have a tag or two indicating what kind of book it is (and whether listened to as audiobook rather than read as kindle\/paperback). The Grasmere Grudge (2*)&#8230; Thriller, gave up part-way &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019-reviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2019 reviews<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2032","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2032\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}