{"id":983,"date":"2010-08-15T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2014-04-18T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T03:50:12","slug":"what-im-reading-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/15\/what-im-reading-5\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: &#8220;Leaving The Tableland&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Tymon&#8217;s Flight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Cover-photo-scanned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-991\" title=\"Cover photo scanned\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Cover-photo-scanned-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Cover-photo-scanned-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Cover-photo-scanned-639x1024.jpg 639w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Cover-photo-scanned.jpg 1573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>At the moment I am reading <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzetc.org\/tm\/scholarly\/name-140991.html\">Kerry Popplewell&#8217;s<\/a> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steeleroberts.co.nz\/books\/isbn\/9781877448959\"><strong><em>Leaving the Tableland<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a new poetry collection from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steeleroberts.co.nz\/\"><strong>Steele Roberts<\/strong><\/a>. The poems embody a keen observation of nature with strong elegaic themes and I am going to be interviewing Kerry soon for <a href=\"http:\/\/plainsfm.org.nz\/programme\/women-air\/\"><strong>Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/COV_TymansFlight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-989\" title=\"COV_Tymans Flight.indd\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/COV_TymansFlight-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/COV_TymansFlight-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/COV_TymansFlight-626x1024.jpg 626w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/COV_TymansFlight.jpg 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>I am also quickly re-reading <a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.livejournal.com\/\"><strong>Mary Victoria&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com.au\/books\/Tymons-Flight-Chronicles-Tree-Bk-1-Mary-Victoria\/?isbn=9780732290986\"><em><strong>Tymon&#8217;s Flight<\/strong><\/em><\/a>&#8212;ahead of our radio interview for next Saturday&#8212;which you may recall I first enjoyed a while back. <em><strong>Tymon&#8217;s Flight <\/strong><\/em>is new out from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com.au\/index.aspx\"><strong>HarperCollins Voyager<\/strong><\/a>, so new in fact that Mary just celebrated her <a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.livejournal.com\/26471.html\"><strong>launch<\/strong><\/a> yesterday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetanz.com\/cave\/\"><strong>Weta Cave<\/strong><\/a> (yup, she&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wellywood\"><strong>Wellywood<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetafx.co.nz\/\"><strong>Weta Digita<\/strong>l<\/a> gal)&#8212;and <em><strong>Tymon&#8217;s Flight<\/strong><\/em> has already had a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyliterature.com\/victoriamary.html\">great review<\/a><\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyliterature.com\/reviewer\/rebecca\/\"><strong>Rebecca Fisher<\/strong><\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyliterature.com\/\"><strong>FantasyLit.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So how about you&#8212;what are you reading this weekend? Is it spinning your wheels and rocking your world? Or not so much?<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I am reading Kerry Popplewell&#8217;s Leaving the Tableland, a new poetry collection from Steele Roberts. The poems embody a keen observation of nature with strong elegaic themes and I am going to be interviewing Kerry soon for Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM. I am also quickly re-reading Mary Victoria&#8217;s Tymon&#8217;s Flight&#8212;ahead [&hellip;]<\/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-983","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\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}