{"id":10996,"date":"2008-02-28T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/02\/28\/10996.html"},"modified":"2008-02-28T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T18:18:45","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/02\/28\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been reading some good books lately. I have long journal entries partly written in my head about each of them, but haven't managed to sit down and actually write those entries. So, as a placeholder (and to remind me), here are the books I've read in the past few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories<\/cite>, by James Patrick Kelly<\/li>\n<li><cite>James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon<\/cite>, by Julie Phillips<\/li>\n<li><cite>Dangerous Space<\/cite>, by Kelley Eskridge<\/li>\n<li><cite>Bodies in Motion<\/cite>, by Mary Anne Mohanraj<\/li>\n<li><cite>Mission Child<\/cite>, by Maureen McHugh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think there were one or two others, but if so they aren't in any of the stacks of books littering my room. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;Oh, and there was a fantasy novel that didn't do much for me (not by any of y'all--and anyway not bad, just didn't grab me), but I ended up just skimming that instead of reading the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Currently reading <cite>Bloodchild<\/cite>, by Octavia Butler, and <cite>Michael Tolliver Lives<\/cite>, by Armistead Maupin.<\/p>\n<p>All of the above are recommended, though sometimes with a couple of caveats.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading some good books lately. I have long journal entries partly written in my head about each of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}