{"id":2305,"date":"2021-01-21T18:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?page_id=2305"},"modified":"2021-12-30T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:25:46","slug":"2021-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For 2021, 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<p>(Unlike previous years, I have listed these oldest to most recent rather than most recent at the top).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sleep Donation<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Telling<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio)<\/li><li><strong>The Fall of Arthur<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Poetry<\/li><li><strong>The Story of Kullervo<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Poetry<\/li><li><strong>Maquis <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; WW2 autobiography<\/li><li><strong>Mort <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Life in the Garden<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Autobiography<\/li><li><strong>The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Poetry<\/li><li><strong>Sargasso of Space<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Tolkien Treasures<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Geeky<\/li><li><strong>Final Harbor<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; WW2 historical fiction<\/li><li><strong>Pyongyang <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Graphic novel<\/li><li><strong>This is How you Lose the Time War<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio)<\/li><li><strong>The Emperor&#8217;s Edge<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Songs of Chaos<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Aztec Century<\/strong> (4&amp;)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Enchanted April<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Historical fiction<\/li><li><strong>Macroscope <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Leviathan Wakes<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Island of Dr. Moreau <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Islanders<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Hamnet <\/strong>(did not finish )&#8230; Historical fiction<\/li><li><strong>Caliban&#8217;s War<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Other Minds<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Geeky<\/li><li><strong>Abaddon&#8217;s Gate<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Untold Legend of Batman\u2026 1. 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(Unlike previous years, I have listed these oldest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021-reviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2021 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-2305","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2305\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}