{"id":142266,"date":"2019-01-28T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142266"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:39:12","slug":"what-the-director-is-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142266","title":{"rendered":"What The Director Is Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3456157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-142282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/3456157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/3456157.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/3456157-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m rereading <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3456157\"><strong>Ancillary Justice<\/strong><\/a> by Ann Leckie, which is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi books. It follows a character who isn&#8217;t able to discern gender and so the narrative doesn&#8217;t give many clues to the genders of the characters. At first this is somewhat confusing, but then it becomes clear that it doesn&#8217;t really make much difference to the plot or our feelings about the characters. It&#8217;s an interesting aspect of a fascinating trilogy. <em>Ancillary Justice<\/em> won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arther C. Clarke awards. It&#8217;s the only book to have won all three. And it was Leckie&#8217;s first book. It&#8217;s so good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rereading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, which is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi books. It follows a character who isn&#8217;t able to discern gender and so the narrative doesn&#8217;t give many clues to the genders of the characters. At first this is somewhat confusing, but then it becomes clear that it doesn&#8217;t really&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":142282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-the-director-is-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/3456157.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-B0C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142283,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142266\/revisions\/142283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}