{"id":681,"date":"2016-03-31T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/31\/march-2016-in-review\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T22:59:00","slug":"march-2016-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/31\/march-2016-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2016 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an index and summary of the things I&#8217;ve talked about over the last month.  Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it&#8217;s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.<\/p>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<h4>Fiction<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/09\/darkover-landfall-marion-zimmer-bradley\">&#8220;Darkover Landfall&#8221; Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/a>.  Part of the Darkover series, a combination of space colonisation, lost colonies and pyschic powers.  Part of <a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/tags\/read-all-fiction\">Read All the Fiction<\/a>, boxed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/stormqueen-marion-zimmer-bradley\">&#8220;Stormqueen!&#8221; Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/a>.  Part of the Darkover series, a combination of space colonisation, lost colonies and pyschic powers.  Part of <a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/tags\/read-all-fiction\">Read All the Fiction<\/a>, boxed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/30\/hawkmistress-marion-zimmer-bradley\">&#8220;Hawkmistress!&#8221; Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/a>.  Part of the Darkover series, a combination of space colonisation, lost colonies and pyschic powers.  Part of <a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/tags\/read-all-fiction\">Read All the Fiction<\/a>, boxed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/23\/prince-dogs-kate-elliott\">&#8220;Prince of Dogs&#8221; Kate Elliott<\/a>. Epic fantasy set in an analogue of medieval Europe, part of the Crown of Stars series. New.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 4<\/p>\n<h4>Non-Fiction<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/middle-east-cradle-civilisation-revealed-stephen-bourke-part-1\">&#8220;The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilisation Revealed&#8221; Stephen Bourke<\/a>.  Part of the Thames &#038; Hudson Ancient Civilisations series.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Radio<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/our-time-akhenaten\">Akhenaten<\/a>. In Our Time episode from 2009 about Akhenaten and his religious and political changes to Ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/our-time-estruscan-civilisation\">The Etruscan Civilisation<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the Etruscans who were the dominant culture in (modern-day) Tuscany for 8 centuries from around 800 BCE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/our-time-perpetual-motion\">Perpetual Motion<\/a> &#8211; In Our Time episode about perpetual motion machines and why they&#8217;re impossible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/our-time-roman-republic\">The Roman Republic<\/a> &#8211; In Our Time episode from 2004 covering the broad sweep of the history of the Roman Republic.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 4<\/p>\n<h3>Talks<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/living-liminal-zone-town-queen-khentkawes-giza-ana-tavares-eeg-meeting-talk\">&#8220;Living in a Liminal Zone: The &#8216;Town&#8217; of Queen Khentkawes at Giza&#8221; Ana Tavares<\/a> &#8211; talk at the March EEG Meeting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an index and summary of the things I&#8217;ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it&#8217;s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there. Books Fiction &#8220;Darkover Landfall&#8221; Marion Zimmer Bradley. Part of the Darkover series, a combination of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2016\/03\/31\/march-2016-in-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March 2016 in Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}