Continuing last year’s reading:<\/p>\n
April 4th – SPQR, Mary Beard: A very strong contender for non-fiction book of the year, this is a beautifully written history of Rome that is soaked in detail and characterisation.<\/p>\n
April 21st – City Stained Red, Sam Sykes: This is a great fantasy story revolving around a team of adventurers who mostly can’t stand each other, with hilarious\/blood-stained consequences<\/p>\n
April 25th – The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers: I absolutely fell in love with the characters, the setting and the story. Maybe the best fiction of the year.<\/p>\n
May 15th – The Blue Blazes, Chuck Wendig: A solid noir urban fantasy.<\/p>\n
Also May 15th – Born to Run, Christopher McDougall: In any other year this would have run away as the best non-fiction book, and if my spine still let me run I’d call it life-changing.<\/p>\n
June 2nd – Hyperion, Dan Simmons: I started this thinking it looked like a possibly-overlong, needlessly complicated book. Oh, cover blurb, you lied to me so! Hyperion is delightful<\/em>, a genuinely surprising pilgrim’s tale that twists a hundred strands intimate and stellar into a delicious whole, and wraps it up with a strong contender for the best final page in all of fiction.<\/p>\n June 17th – Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain: Yes, I read this after his death, but god, what a story! The absolute passion here is breathtaking, and even with a question mark over whether it’s true or not it’s a great read.<\/p>\n June 21st – Savage Season, Joe Lansdale: Short and sweet, a punchy thriller that starts a little awkwardly but finds it’s feet for a strong finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuing last year’s reading: April 4th – SPQR, Mary Beard: A very strong contender for non-fiction book of the year, this is a beautifully written history of Rome that is soaked in detail and characterisation. April 21st – City Stained Red, Sam Sykes: This is a great fantasy story revolving around a team of adventurers … Continue reading Continued chewing – books April – June<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-thinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}