{"id":33794,"date":"2016-12-12T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33794"},"modified":"2016-12-11T22:47:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T09:47:28","slug":"more-for-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/more-for-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"More For This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27764\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/10\/thanking-my-2014-contributors\/karenmcm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27764\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27764\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27764\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/KarenMcM.jpg\" alt=\"Karen McMillan\" width=\"130\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, Paul Weimer kicked off the <em>&#8220;&#8230;on Anything, Really&#8221;<\/em> Avid Reader special with his <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/an-avid-reader-special-paul-weimers-top-5-reads-of-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top 5 Reads of 2016<\/a> &#8212; and this Thursday it will be Karen McMillan&#8217;s turn. If you want to do some prep ahead of time, you can check out Karen&#8217;s Top 5\u00a0 from last year:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/an-avid-reader-special-karen-mcmillans-top-5-reads-of-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Avid Reader Special: Karen McMillan\u2019s Top 5 Reads Of 2015<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><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 size-thumbnail wp-image-33596\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"commonwealthbyannpatchett\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Commonwealth.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a>A few weeks back I promised you a fortnight of book reports. Now, just on a month later (because reading and posting on books always takes longer than you think!) I&#8217;ll be bringing you the last of the 5 books I listed then, namely Ann Patchett&#8217;s <em>Commonwealth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My posts on the 4 previous books are:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><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=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-33625\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Zero-World-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"zero-world\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"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-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Zero-World.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/what-im-reading-magpie-murders-by-michael-horowitz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Magpie Murders<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/an-interesting-observation-from-reading-magpie-murders\/\" target=\"_blank\"> by Anthony Horowitz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/18\/what-im-reading-the-three-body-problem-by-cixin-liu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Three-Body Problem<\/em> by Cixin Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/23\/what-im-reading-the-outcast-by-sadie-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Outcast<\/em> by Sadie Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/what-im-reading-zero-world-by-jason-m-hough\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zero World<\/em> by Jason M Hough<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/tuesday-poem-christmastide\/hakatere-nov13-439a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23617 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also this week, I&#8217;ll be continuing my Tuesday feature on poems that are broadly themed around &#8220;the sea&#8221; &#8212; check back tomorrow for that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Paul Weimer kicked off the &#8220;&#8230;on Anything, Really&#8221; Avid Reader special with his Top 5 Reads of 2016 &#8212; and this Thursday it will be Karen McMillan&#8217;s turn. If you want to do some prep ahead of time, you can check out Karen&#8217;s Top 5\u00a0 from last year: An Avid Reader Special: Karen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794","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=33794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33798,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794\/revisions\/33798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}