{"id":406,"date":"2005-09-25T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2005-09-25T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-25T17:52:13","slug":"book-mini-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/25\/book-mini-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Book mini-reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=ericnehrlisho-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0441004326\">Archangel<\/a>, by Sharon Shinn<br \/>\nI saw this in the library and I had remembered that Beemer had once recommended it to me, so I picked it up.  I liked it.  Interesting world, and characters that I sympathized with.  Not particularly deep, and not a book that I&#8217;m likely to rush out and buy for myself, but decent and memorable.  Unlike the next book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card<br \/>\nI saw this in the library, picked it up, flipped through it, and still couldn&#8217;t remember whether I had read it, a problem which I&#8217;ve had with <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/book\/fictionbooks.html>other books in this series<\/A>.  After reading a couple chapters, <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/31\/shadow-puppets-by-orson-scott-card\/>I realized I had<\/a>.  It&#8217;s really a sad commentary on this particular series of books from Card that they are completely forgettable.  Normally, I have an almost encyclopedic memory of the books I&#8217;ve read, aided in the past few years by my writing reviews on my website, but these books just leave no impression.  Strong anti-recommendation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=ericnehrlisho-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0060574623\/\">The Hallowed Hunt<\/a>, by Lois McMaster Bujold<br \/>\nI adore the <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/book\/sfbooklist.html#bujold>Vorkosigan series<\/a> by Bujold, but haven&#8217;t been as enthralled by the <A href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/paladin-of-souls-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/>Chalion series<\/a>.  But I saw it in the library, so I picked it up and read it.  It was relatively engaging, but I&#8217;m still not that excited by the series.  But that&#8217;s what the library is for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archangel, by Sharon Shinn I saw this in the library and I had remembered that Beemer had once recommended it to me, so I picked it up. I liked it. Interesting world, and characters that I sympathized with. Not particularly deep, and not a book that I&#8217;m likely to rush out and buy for myself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}