{"id":33620,"date":"2016-11-14T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33620"},"modified":"2016-11-14T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:45:08","slug":"buckle-up-for-a-week-or-two-of-book-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/buckle-up-for-a-week-or-two-of-book-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckle Up for A Week (or Two!) Of Book Reports!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/buckle-up-for-a-week-or-two-of-book-reports\/magpie-murders\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33622\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-33622\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Magpie-Murders-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"magpie-murders\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Magpie-Murders-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Magpie-Murders-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Magpie-Murders.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I know&#8221; &#8212; how can this be? But I&#8217;ve been a mad reading loon of late and chomped my way through not one but five books!<\/p>\n<p>Although to be fair, I&#8217;ve been reading one of them for <em>months<\/em>. In truth, I could not &#8220;grok&#8221; it and although I shall discuss some of the reasons why that was the case, I was determined to finish it.<\/p>\n<p>Now you may be thinking, is Helen going to break her own rule and talk about a book she didn&#8217;t enjoy? The answer is &#8220;yes&#8221;, but also &#8220;no&#8221; since I didn&#8217;t hate it by any means and I think it will appeal to many readers. (In <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/buckle-up-for-a-week-or-two-of-book-reports\/the-outcast_sadie-jones\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-33623\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Outcast_Sadie-Jones-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"the-outcast_sadie-jones\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Outcast_Sadie-Jones-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Outcast_Sadie-Jones-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Outcast_Sadie-Jones.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/a>fact, I know it already has.) So to me, that makes for an interesting discussion, and when we get to it I hope you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the full list of what I have been reading, several of which I enjoyed very much, others of which I enjoyed well enough, and one which I did not grok &#8212; but I intend to be mean and let you find out which is which as the posts arise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Magpie Murders <\/em>by Michael Horowitz<\/li>\n<li><em>The Outcast<\/em> by Sadie Jones<\/li>\n<li><em>The Three Body Problem<\/em> by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)<\/li>\n<li><em>Zero World<\/em> by Jason Hough<\/li>\n<li><em>Commonwealth<\/em> by Ann Patchett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First up will be <em>Magpie Murders<\/em>, but not until Wednesday because Tuesday, of <em>course<\/em>, is poetry day here on <em>&#8220;&#8230;Anything, Really.&#8221;<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/buckle-up-for-a-week-or-two-of-book-reports\/zero-world\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33625\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33625 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Zero-World-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"zero-world\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Zero-World-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Zero-World-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Zero-World.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/just-arrived-commonwealth-by-ann-patchett-with-a-riff-to-bel-canto-inverse-correlations-pascal\/commonwealth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33596 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"commonwealthbyannpatchett\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/buckle-up-for-a-week-or-two-of-book-reports\/three-body-problem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33624\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Three-Body-Problem-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"three-body-problem\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Three-Body-Problem-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Three-Body-Problem-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Three-Body-Problem.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I know&#8221; &#8212; how can this be? But I&#8217;ve been a mad reading loon of late and chomped my way through not one but five books! Although to be fair, I&#8217;ve been reading one of them for months. In truth, I could not &#8220;grok&#8221; it and although I shall discuss some of the reasons why [&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-33620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33620","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=33620"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33651,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33620\/revisions\/33651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}