{"id":20072,"date":"2019-07-01T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20072"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:37:55","slug":"the-half-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2019\/07\/01\/the-half-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The half-year in books"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>We\u2019re halfway through 2019, and I\u2019ve been reading a bunch of books but I haven\u2019t been talking about them much. So\u2014I thought I\u2019d share the list of what I\u2019ve read in the first part of the year, and ask if any of you want to hear what I think about any of them.\r\n<p><cite>The Paying Guest<\/cite>, by Sarah Waters (suspense)<br>\r\n<cite>The Party<\/cite>, by Trevor Griffiths (play)<br>\r\n<cite>Pipeline<\/cite>, by Dominique Morisseau (play)<br>\r\n<cite>Stupid Fucking Bird<\/cite>, by Aaron Posner (play)<br>\r\n<cite>Norse Gds<\/cite>, by Neil Gaiman (SF?)<br>\r\n<cite>Beasts made of Night<\/cite>, by Tochi Onyebuchi (YASF)<br>\r\n<cite>The 7 1\/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle<\/cite>, by Stuart Turton (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>Winter\u2019s Promise<\/cite>, by Christelle Dabos (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>Moon over Soho<\/cite>, by Ben Aaronovitch (SF) (and also the third and fourth and fifth and sixth ones in the series)<br>\r\n<cite>Dramatic Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of the National Theatre<\/cite>, by Daniel Rosenthal (theater)<br>\r\n<cite>Merrily We Roll Along<\/cite>, by Kaufman and Hart (play)<br>\r\n<cite>The Intuitionists<\/cite>, by Colson Whitehead (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>The Bacchae of Euripides<\/cite>, by Wole Soyinka (play)<br>\r\n<cite>Throne of Glass<\/cite>, by Sarah Maas (YASF)<br>\r\n<cite>Guardian<\/cite>, by A. J. Hartley (YASF)<br>\r\n<cite>I, Claudia<\/cite>, by Mary McCoy (YA)<br>\r\n<cite>Shadow and Bone<\/cite>, by Leigh Bardugo (SF? YASF?)<br>\r\n<cite>Dread Nation<\/cite>, by Justina Ireland (YASF)<br>\r\n<cite>Real Friends<\/cite>, by Shannon Hale (graphic)<br>\r\n<cite>The Belles<\/cite>, by Dhonielle Clayton (YASF)<br>\r\n<cite>Washington Black<\/cite>, by Esi Edugyan (Historical)<br>\r\n<cite>The Raven Tower<\/cite>, by Ann Lackie (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow<\/cite>, by Holly Van Leuven (Theater)<br>\r\n<cite>The Song of Achilles<\/cite>, by Madeline Miller (Historical?)<br>\r\n<cite>The Intuitionist<\/cite>, by Colson Whitehead (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>The City in the Middle of the Night<\/cite>, by Charlie Jane Anders (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>Straight White Men<\/cite>, by Young Jean Lee (play)<br>\r\n<cite>If, Then<\/cite>, by Kate Hope Day (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>Lent<\/cite>, by Jo Walton (SF)<br>\r\n<cite>Dragon Pearl<\/cite>, by Yoon Ha Lee (YASF)<br>\r\n<cite>A Doll\u2019s House Part 2<\/cite>, by Lucas Hnath (play)\r\n<p>I think my favorites are probably <cite>Dread Nation<\/cite>, <cite>Lent<\/cite> and perhaps <cite>The Paying Guest<\/cite>. And the Aaronovitch series, I suppose, although I don\u2019t really adore them so much as vaguely like them. Comfort reading.\r\n<p>What have y\u2019all been enjoying reading so far this year?\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger just posts a list.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20072","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\/20072","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=20072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20078,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072\/revisions\/20078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}