{"id":51984,"date":"2025-04-01T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51984"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:24:18","slug":"diplomatic-immunity-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/04\/01\/diplomatic-immunity-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:618,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/3b3e4d46-1207-4d0c-9c5b-fc27fe8295da&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250717160711\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/3b3e4d46-1207-4d0c-9c5b-fc27fe8295da&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 08:45:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:40:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:25:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 14:26:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 14:26:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 19 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/3b3e4d46-1207-4d0c-9c5b-fc27fe8295da\"><em>Diplomatic Immunity<\/em><\/a> by Lois McMaster Bujold: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>Miles heads out to solve a diplomatic crisis that quickly becomes more of a crisis than expected (which, well, of course, that&#8217;s how it works, right?). Ties together a lot of threads and brings in long unseen characters from prior books in the series. I continue to be impressed with how consistently enjoyable this series is. Only a few books left before I&#8217;m done!<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4018-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Diplomatic Immunity\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4018-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4018-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4018-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4018-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4018-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 19\/2025: I continue to be impressed with how consistently enjoyable this series is. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/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-51984","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\/51984","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=51984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52347,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51984\/revisions\/52347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}