{"id":52454,"date":"2025-09-26T06:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52454"},"modified":"2025-09-26T06:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:44:18","slug":"the-cuyrse-of-chalion-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/09\/26\/the-cuyrse-of-chalion-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:343,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/9d449521-ea24-48c9-a90c-cbf728c74e58&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>Book 53 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/9d449521-ea24-48c9-a90c-cbf728c74e58\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has all the great characterization, worldbuilding, humor, and heart of the Vorkosigan saga, only this time in a fantasy setting. This was an interesting experiment, reading fantasy from an author I became a fan of through her sci-fi work. Somewhat amusingly, and definitely interestingly, I just couldn\u2019t quite get as much into this as I did the Vorkosigan books &#8211; which is not a fault of the book, I\u2019ve just always been more into SF than F.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4970.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Curse of Chalion\" title=\"IMG_4970.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 53\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: All the great characterization, worldbuilding, humor, and heart of the Vorkosigan saga, only this time in a fantasy setting.<\/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":[5779,6941],"class_list":["post-52454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-lois-mcmaster-bujold","tag-world-of-the-five-gods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454","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=52454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52456,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions\/52456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}