{"id":821,"date":"2010-07-31T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2012-10-13T17:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T04:51:28","slug":"what-im-reading-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/what-im-reading-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading: “The God Engines” by John Scalzi; “Definitely Dead” by Charlaine Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I started this week reading China Mieville’s<\/strong><\/a> The City & The City<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which was the sixth and last of my bid to read all the fiction finalists for the Hugo Awards<\/strong><\/a> before today, which is the final date for voting to occur. As with Paolo Bacigalupi’s<\/strong><\/a> The Wind-Up Girl<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which I had just finished reading last week<\/a>, I found The City & The City <\/em>a great read—so I foresee a difficult decision ahead today!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But as a soon as I put The City & The City <\/em>down, I still had five of the six novella finalists to read. I had read John Scalzi’s<\/a> The God Engines<\/em><\/a><\/strong> early on, but that still left me with the rest of the list:<\/p>\n