{"id":905,"date":"2010-08-07T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T04:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:46:13","slug":"what-im-reading-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/what-im-reading-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve got two books on the go this week, both from the early 1990s. The first is an old favourite, Guy Gavriel Kay’s<\/strong><\/a> A Song for Arbonne<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>(1992), which I have not re-read for some years—but which I am really enjoying all over again. It’s High Fantasy, set in a world based around the medieval Provence of the troubadors, i.e. think Aquitaine. Although Tigana<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is probably my favourite Guy Gavriel Kay novel, Arbonne<\/strong><\/em> comes a close second—I really like the mix of characters and the layers of plot and political manoeuverings\/machinations to the story.\u00a0 In the end though, it’s a story about people, their joys and sorrows and struggles, which is the kind of tale-telling that I enjoy.<\/p>\n

The second book, and one I have been meaning to read for-ever<\/em> (ok, exaggeration, for quite a few \"\"<\/a>years now) is John Marsden’s<\/strong><\/a> classic YA tale\u00a0 Tomorrow, When the War Began<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em> Such a great title, isn’t it?\u00a0 So far I’m only a few chapters in, but it’s reading really well. It’s also about to be a movie really soon, which is why I’m keen to get in and read the book right now.<\/p>\n

So how about you? What are you reading this week and how are you finding it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got two books on the go this week, both from the early 1990s. The first is an old favourite, Guy Gavriel Kay’s A Song for Arbonne (1992), which I have not re-read for some years—but which I am really enjoying all over again. It’s High Fantasy, set in a world based around the medieval […]<\/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-905","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\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}