{"id":12786,"date":"2010-02-10T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/10\/12786.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:04","slug":"book-report-boneshaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/10\/book-report-boneshaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Boneshaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in the waning days of 2009 (when civilization lay in ruins), Your Humble Blogger picked up Cherie Priest&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/boneshaker\">Boneshaker<\/a> as an airplane book. I must admit, I judged the book by its cover. It really is an excellent cover.\n<p>I had seen the cover image on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/\">John Scalzi&#8217;s blog<\/a> when the book came out, probably over one of those moderately-irritating Big Idea publicity essays, and so when I was browsing through the specfic paperback in the local Barnes and Whatsit, I recognized it and was charmed again. And, you know, I needed an airplane book. So a purchase was made.\n<p>The whole internet-pr thing, which I usually discuss when I read Mr. Scalzi&#8217;s own books, is becoming a greater and greater part of my purchasing decisions. The combination of the Whatever and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unshelved.com\/\">Unshelved<\/a> site and a small handful of other sites (as I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time in Specfic Blogovia) have made me aware of new authors and new books in a way I wasn&#8217;t, ten years ago. On the other hand, ten years ago I was working in Harvard Square and wandering into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandemoniumbooks.com\/\">Pandemonium<\/a> on my lunch hour, so I was finding out about the Next Big Thing that way.\n<p>And I suspect that I would eventually have read this book anyway, what with the cover being so good, and the book being good and all, too, as an added bonus. It has already started showing up on year&#8217;s-end lists, which is another way for me to find out about books I might like. But I might not have actually purchased a copy that way, just read it from the library.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is snowed in, only without any snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19004,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions\/19004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}