{"id":2353,"date":"2010-11-15T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:25:57","slug":"what-im-reading-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/what-im-reading-9\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Immortal-Beloved1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2355\" title=\"Immortal Beloved\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Immortal-Beloved1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Immortal-Beloved1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Immortal-Beloved1.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>I haven&#8217;t done one of these posts for a while because, well, I&#8217;ve been so busy writing\u00a0 <em>Gathering<\/em> (The Wall of Night Book Two) that I haven&#8217;t been reading much. But one good thing about airports and flying is that it does provide a great opportunity to play reading catch up. This recent trip, I&#8217;ve read <a href=\"http:\/\/catetiernan.org\/\"><strong>Cate Tiernan&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/catetiernan.org\/immortal-beloved\/\"><em><strong>Immortal Beloved<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and I have to say&#8212;I loved it. I really enjoyed the characters and the weaving of the historical backstory into the present day action. And by the way, it&#8217;s not about vampires, although it does follow the broad arc of those kind of stories.<\/p>\n<p>My one disappointment&#8212;it&#8217;s the beginning of a series so I&#8217;ll have to wait until next year for the follow up. But you know, when I&#8217;ve enjoyed a book I don&#8217;t mind waiting. (Although maybe not a GRRM length wait &#8230;) I&#8217;d rather the author got their story right rather than just rushing something out.<\/p>\n<p>So how about you?\u00a0 What are you reading and what have you loved recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done one of these posts for a while because, well, I&#8217;ve been so busy writing\u00a0 Gathering (The Wall of Night Book Two) that I haven&#8217;t been reading much. But one good thing about airports and flying is that it does provide a great opportunity to play reading catch up. This recent trip, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}