{"id":27,"date":"2011-07-24T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2013-04-08T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:58:16","slug":"currently-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Currently Reading:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Return<\/em> by Mark Mustian (2000):\u00a0 Mystery novel about a reporter specializing in investigating supernatural phenomena who finds himself caught up in the unfolding story of a Brazilian women claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>I was at the library, looking for Mark&#8217;s latest, <em>The Gendarme<\/em>, and found <em>The Return<\/em> instead.\u00a0 Hoping that <em>The Gendarme<\/em> is available, once I finish this one.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Deepness in the Sky<\/em> by Vernor Vinge (1999):\u00a0 It&#8217;s the Qeng Ho and the Emergents, exploring the system of the On\/Off star, discovering the Spiders, etc.\u00a0 Hugo winner for Best Novel in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Prequel to Vinge&#8217;s <em>A Fire Upon the Deep<\/em> (1992; also a Hugo winner), which I read about five or six years ago.\u00a0 At that time, I kept checking out <em>A Deepness in the Sky<\/em> from the library, hoping to find time to read it, and just kept getting distracted.\u00a0 Recently, while walking through a different library, spotted it again and decided the time had come.<\/p>\n<p>Random walks through libraries are a constant source of frustration to books who thought I might be reading them next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Return by Mark Mustian (2000):\u00a0 Mystery novel about a reporter specializing in investigating supernatural phenomena who finds himself caught up in the unfolding story of a Brazilian women claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ. I was at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/?p=27\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonhakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}