{"id":280,"date":"2019-10-24T22:25:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/?p=280"},"modified":"2019-10-24T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:43:22","slug":"this-years-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2019\/10\/24\/this-years-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"This years&#8217; reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a <em>lot<\/em> of books this year, almost sixty already, and these are my favourites so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drew Williams, The Stars Unclaimed. A great big slice of action-movie fun, with pace, invention and humour poured on generously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming. A slower-paced book than anything else here, this is Logan&#8217;s second novel and it is beautiful. It manages to be about island life without ever feeling isolated, and is entirely magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Pearson, Hilda and the Stone Forest. The Hilda series continues with this latest instalment, and it&#8217;s my graphic novel of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El-Mohtar &amp; Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War. Short, crystalline, and without a spare word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wells, Murderbot series. This series is up to four novellas, with a novel coming next year, and my word they are <em>fun<\/em>. An extremely efficient robot security operative with a heavy case of social anxiety and a sarcastic attitude might be my favourite character in any medium this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valente, Space Opera.  Every single page is studded with inventive touches, there&#8217;s not a humanoid with a prosthetic head in sight, and Valente goes all-out in writing, imagination and wit with this Eurovision-in-space that is soaked in her love for the subject, and the whole book <em>shines<\/em> in the best and most glorious way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot of books this year, almost sixty already, and these are my favourites so far: Drew Williams, The Stars Unclaimed. A great big slice of action-movie fun, with pace, invention and humour poured on generously. Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming. A slower-paced book than anything else here, this is Logan&#8217;s second novel and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2019\/10\/24\/this-years-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This years&#8217; reading<\/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":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}