{"id":125,"date":"2006-01-03T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=125"},"modified":"2006-01-03T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T21:54:00","slug":"sentence-siberia-by-ann-lehtmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/01\/sentence-siberia-by-ann-lehtmets.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentence: Siberia by Ann Lehtmets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1877059188\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Sentence: Siberia<\/a> was a bit of a dud.  Although Ann Lehtmets eventually spent something like 17 years in Siberia after being deported there, the book only covers the first couple of years.  But boy does it cover them, in such excruciatingly uninteresting detail that it&#8217;s impossible to believe.  No one can remember, 17 years later, how many peas they got for dinner night after night, even if they were starving all those nights.  And who wants to know anyway?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny because of all the hoopla going on right now over Million Little Pieces.  It certainly does seem like the memoir genre lends itself to fictionalization.  Since no one could possibly remember conversations word for word and enough detail to flesh out a book, we do allow authors to blur the lines.  But we trust that the important events really happened and that the overall picture is accurate.  Sentence: Siberia is probably substantially true.  It just wasn&#8217;t all that interesting, considering that she and everyone around her was engaged in a life or death struggle.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting point was the way the Estonians were rooting for the Germans in WW2.  To them, it was the Russians killing people in concentration camps and the Germans were going to be their saviors.  Funny.  Also, how do people walk around all winter barefoot in the snow without getting frostbite?  Is that really possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentence: Siberia was a bit of a dud. Although Ann Lehtmets eventually spent something like 17 years in Siberia after being deported there, the book only covers the first couple of years. But boy does it cover them, in such excruciatingly uninteresting detail that it&#8217;s impossible to believe. No one can remember, 17 years later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}