{"id":265,"date":"2013-09-09T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2013-09-09T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:45:23","slug":"catching-up-with-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/catching-up-with-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with things"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, the last few days have been a catch-up time. For one thing I have posted up four reviews of books I read while away travelling. The simplest way to find them all is to go to http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/BookReviews.aspx<\/a> and check out the most recent four items. There you will find a quick summary of them. Or you can go to each of Amazon, Goodreads and Shelfari and read the full versions.<\/p>\n

The books were:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Patterns of Chaos<\/em>, by Colin Kapp – an old science-fiction book I rediscovered,<\/li>\n
  2. If Only You Knew<\/em>, by Anastasia Abboud – a contemporary romance which I enjoyed for the centrally-important cross-cultural aspects,<\/li>\n
  3. Skater in a Strange Land<\/em>, by David Frauenfelder – a sort of cross-over science-fiction \/ fantasy book that mostly defies description but kept me reading avidly to the end, and<\/li>\n
  4. The Ghost Bride<\/em>, by Yangsze Choo – another cross-over, this time between historical fiction (1890s Malaya) and fantasy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In just a day or so In a Milk and Honeyed Land<\/em> is taking part in the oddly-named Summer Sizzle book tour – odd because over here at least the temperature has fallen well below sizzling! But check out the following link:
    \n    http:\/\/www.orangeberrybooktours.com\/2013\/09\/ob-summer-sizzle-richard-abbott\/<\/a>.
    \nThere’s quite a schedule of blogs, reviews and what-have-you to follow over the next couple of months, with several events just in the next week. I’m sure there will be something for everyone in all of that.<\/p>\n

    There’s more to post on other subjects too, but that can wait for another day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    OK, the last few days have been a catch-up time. For one thing I have posted up four reviews of books I read while away travelling. The simplest way to find them all is to go to http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/BookReviews.aspx and check out the most recent four items. There you will find a quick summary of them. … Continue reading Catching up with things<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-hop","category-review","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}