{"id":766,"date":"2005-03-02T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=766"},"modified":"2005-03-02T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T20:00:36","slug":"book_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m almost finished with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell<\/em>, which I started sometime in late January. I can usually finish books fairly quick, even 800-page tomes, but life seems to have a lot more distractions lately. I need to take a week off and devote all my time to reading. But I digress. It’s an amazing book, melding fantasy with a masterful pastiche of the social criticism of Dickens or Thackeray<\/a>. Clark’s descriptions of magic and magical places are poetic without being overwrought or flowery. And those footnotes! The amount of care and imagination she poured into those footnotes is impressive for its own sake, but they also add verisimilitude and texture to Clark’s alternate universe. But this book isn’t just for fantasy buffs. The story should appeal to anyone with a love for epic, sweeping fiction.
\nNext up, I think, will be David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas<\/em>. Hopefully, I can get through that one more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m almost finished with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which I started sometime in late January. I can usually finish books fairly quick, even 800-page tomes, but life seems to have a lot more distractions lately. I need to take a week off and devote all my time to reading. But I digress. It’s an […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}