{"id":49842,"date":"2023-09-04T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49842"},"modified":"2023-09-10T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:13:19","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-shards-of-honor-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/04\/%f0%9f%93%9a-shards-of-honor-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1137,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/33252fba-d00d-4d8d-a6c0-6cfe14db2009&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>45\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/33252fba-d00d-4d8d-a6c0-6cfe14db2009\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More interesting than I\u2019d expected it to be, given that neither military nor romance are among my generally preferred SF genres. Bujold\u2019s characters are interesting, making even the \u201ccaptive falls for noble captor\u201d scenario more workable than it might have been, though there were definitely still moments that didn\u2019t really work for me. And there was an unexpected coda, unconnected from the main plotline and characters, that was a neat way to end the book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lmb-soh-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Shards of Honor\" title=\"lmb-soh.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More interesting than I\u2019d expected it to be, given that neither military nor romance are among my generally preferred SF genres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[5779,5780],"class_list":["post-49842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-lois-mcmaster-bujold","tag-vorkosigan-saga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}