{"id":819,"date":"2011-05-30T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2011-05-30T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:51:42","slug":"single-noun-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/single-noun-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Noun Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;ve been rather slack lately at writing about the books I&#8217;ve been reading; I don&#8217;t expect anyone else to care, but I&#8217;ve found that I quite like having a record of what I&#8217;ve read. So, to catch up for May&#8217;s reading, I&#8217;m writing one word book reviews; to increase the cryptic and obtuse nature of the endeavour for no apparent reason, I&#8217;m limiting myself to nouns. A rating out of five provides a bit of context in which to interpret the review.\n<\/p>\n<p style='vertical-align: top;'>\n<em><strong>The World of Null-A<\/strong><\/em>, A. E. Van Vogt<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Review:<\/strong> Wiring.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong style='vertical-align: top;'>Rating:<\/strong> 3.49 out of 5: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wires.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"3.49 wires out of 5\" width=\"150\" height=\"30\" style='padding: 0px;' \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style='vertical-align: top;'>\n<em><strong>Modern Baptists<\/strong><\/em>, James Wilcox<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Review:<\/strong> Beer.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong style='vertical-align: top;'>Rating:<\/strong> 4.25 out of 5: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/beers.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"4.25 beers out of 5\" width=\"90\" height=\"30\" style='padding: 0px;' \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style='vertical-align: top;'>\n<em><strong>Survivors<\/strong><\/em>, Terry Nation<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Review:<\/strong> Snow.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong style='vertical-align: top;'>Rating:<\/strong> 4.12 out of 5: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/snowflakes.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"4.12 snowflakes out of 5\" width=\"150\" height=\"30\" style='padding: 0px;' \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style='vertical-align: top;'>\n<em><strong>A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian<\/strong><\/em>, Marina Lewycka<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Review:<\/strong> Apples.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong style='vertical-align: top;'>Rating:<\/strong> 4.01 out of 5: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/apples.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"4.01 apples out of 5\" width=\"150\" height=\"30\" style='padding: 0px;' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been rather slack lately at writing about the books I&#8217;ve been reading; I don&#8217;t expect anyone else to care, but I&#8217;ve found that I quite like having a record of what I&#8217;ve read. So, to catch up for May&#8217;s reading, I&#8217;m writing one word book reviews; to increase the cryptic and obtuse nature of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}