{"id":184,"date":"2013-04-05T10:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2013-04-05T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T10:51:16","slug":"a-couple-of-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/a-couple-of-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I have been away I have been using the opportunity to catch up on my reading pile – both fiction and non-fiction – and have successfully completed several books. Just to round off the complete reading experience (!) I have uploaded two reviews to both Amazon and Goodreads. Of course, with the news that broke a few days ago about Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads, it is quite possible that sometime in the future I would only have to upload once!<\/p>\n

The two reviews are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Pyg<\/em>, by Russell Potter, a rather delightful tale of Toby The Learned Pig who lived around the time of the Napoleonic Wars and entertained the intelligentsia of the era – see Amazon<\/a> or Goodreads<\/a> for my thoughts, and<\/li>\n
  2. Living the Lunar Calendar<\/em>, edited by Ben-Dov, Horowitz and Steele, a geekily academic exploration of the social and cultural implications of using a lunar-based calendar – see Amazon<\/a> or Goodreads<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was also going to write a review of Iain M Banks’ The Hydrogen Sonata<\/em> but delayed owing to the untimely news of said author’s terminal illness. So that will follow in a little while rather than be rushed. So just another short blog today…<\/p>\n

    \"Pyg<\/p>\n

    \"Living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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