{"id":2344,"date":"2022-12-14T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?page_id=2344"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:17:27","slug":"2022-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For 2022, 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>(Like 2021, but 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\">\n<li><strong>Underland <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; geeky<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Early Settlement in the Lake Counties<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; geeky<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Orenda<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Historical fiction (TTRBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Mind Parasites<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction (TTRBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Garden of Evening Mists<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Historical fiction (audio) (GC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Blazing World<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Beyond Possible<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Autobiography (GC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Word for World is Forest<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Five Decembers<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Historical fiction (TTRBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A Desolation Called Peace<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Thursday Murder Club<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Mystery (GC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gormenghast 1 &#8211; Titus Groan<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second Game<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Galactic Patrol<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Long Earth<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Living Mountain<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Geeky (GC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Second Stage Lensman<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Children of the Lens <\/strong>(5*)&#8230; Science fiction <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Elder Race<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Guns Above<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Steampunk (TTRBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ancestral Night<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction (TTRBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trey of Swords<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Frankenstein of Baghdad<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Fantasy (TTRBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Boar Tooth and Little Bear<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Historical fiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>All my Sins Remembered<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Thorstein of the Mere<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Historical fiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The First Ghosts<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; 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(Like 2021, but unlike previous years, I have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022-reviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2022 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-2344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2344","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=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2344\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}