{"id":1071,"date":"2011-03-23T20:15:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2011-03-23T20:15:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:15:53","slug":"tortall-and-other-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Tortall and Other Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tortall-Other-Lands-Collection-Cooper\/product-reviews\/0375866760\/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=0&amp;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending#RF15V21NQXH4D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1072\" title=\"tortall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tortall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tortall.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tortall-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My fifth book for the <a href=\"http:\/\/floor-to-ceiling-books.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/sign-up-speculative-fiction-reading.html\">Speculative Fiction Challenge<\/a> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tortall and Other Lands<\/span> by Tamora Pierce. This is a collection of short stories, most of which had been previously published but a few were new. Thankfully I had only read two of the stories before so most of the anthology was new to me.<\/p>\n<p>Tamora Pierce is one of my favorite authors so it is no surprise that I really enjoyed this collection of stories. My favorite was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dragon&#8217;s Tale<\/span> which has characters from The Immortals quartet. This story is told from Kitten the dragon&#8217;s perspective and it was so nice to revisit these old friends.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t a story I didn&#8217;t like, but I really hope she writes more about Adria and Lost, Tonya and Lindri, and Arimu and Sunflower!<\/p>\n<p>To see what other people are reading for the challenge go to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/floor-to-ceiling-books.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/spec-fic-reading-challenge-march-review.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-994\" title=\"Spec Fic Challenge Sidebar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Spec-Fic-Challenge-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Spec-Fic-Challenge-Sidebar.jpg 185w, http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Spec-Fic-Challenge-Sidebar-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fifth book for the Speculative Fiction Challenge is Tortall and Other Lands by Tamora Pierce. This is a collection of short stories, most of which had been previously published but a few were new. Thankfully I had only read two of the stories before so most of the anthology was new to me. Tamora [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-speculative-fiction-challenge","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Xt8g-hh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}