{"id":29259,"date":"2015-06-06T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29259"},"modified":"2015-06-03T18:36:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:36:03","slug":"what-im-reading-this-weekend-how-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/06\/what-im-reading-this-weekend-how-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading This Weekend&#8230; How About You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/my-tbr-stack-today\/of-love-and-shadows\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27908\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27908\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Of-Love-and-Shadows-95x150.jpg\" alt=\"Of Love and Shadows\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Of-Love-and-Shadows-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Of-Love-and-Shadows-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Of-Love-and-Shadows.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I talked about my most recent &#8220;read and enjoyed&#8221;, Holly Black&#8217;s <strong><em>The Coldest Girl In Coldtown.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With that out of the way, the books I have on the reading table for this weekend are:<\/p>\n<p>Isabel Allende&#8217;s classic <strong><em>Of Love and Shadows<\/em><\/strong>, which has been on the table for some time but has now worked it&#8217;s way <em>much<\/em> closer to the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/06\/what-im-reading-this-weekend-how-about-you\/half-a-king\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29260\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-29260\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Half-A-King-110x150.jpg\" alt=\"Half A King\" width=\"110\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Half-A-King-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Half-A-King-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Half-A-King.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/><\/a>Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s <strong><em>Half A King<\/em><\/strong>, which will be my first Joe Abercrombie read (I know: shock, horror&#8211;but better late than never, right? Right!) and I believe may be his first foray into YA fiction. It&#8217;s also made it onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemmellawards.com\/legend-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced Gemmell Legend Award shortlist<\/a> for this year, so I note the &#8220;watch this space&#8221; for the outcome of the vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/06\/what-im-reading-this-weekend-how-about-you\/master-and-margarita\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29261\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-29261\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Master-and-Margarita-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"Master and Margarita\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Master-and-Margarita-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Master-and-Margarita-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Master-and-Margarita.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/a>Also on the TBR table, although I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;ll make it off the reading blocks this weekend, is Mikhail Bulgakov&#8217;s <em><strong>The Master and Margarita<\/strong><\/em>, which I&#8217;ve been meaning to re-read for some time.<\/p>\n<p>So how about you: what are you reading this weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I talked about my most recent &#8220;read and enjoyed&#8221;, Holly Black&#8217;s The Coldest Girl In Coldtown. With that out of the way, the books I have on the reading table for this weekend are: Isabel Allende&#8217;s classic Of Love and Shadows, which has been on the table for some time but has now worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259","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=29259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29263,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions\/29263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}