{"id":129,"date":"2006-01-13T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-01-13T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T21:49:00","slug":"lovely-bones-by-alice-sebold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/01\/lovely-bones-by-alice-sebold.html","title":{"rendered":"The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0316168815\/tradgirl\" target='new'>The Lovely Bones<\/a> got off to a good start.  It&#8217;s certainly built around an original idea &#8211; a girl narrating, from heaven, the aftermath of her own murder.  Unfortunately, after the initial burst of energy died down, it got a little old.  There was no pacing, no startling events, just a slow meander down the unhappy river of life with our narrator not even participating, only observing. <\/p>\n<p>Then, near the end, Sebold suddenly throws a further bit of supernaturalism at us.  Now, I know the book is supernatural to begin with and I don&#8217;t expect authors to operate within the realms of our reality, but I do expect them to operate within the realms of the reality they&#8217;ve defined, and this incident is not set up by the prior text.  It&#8217;s almost as if she knew that nothing much had happened in the last two hundred pages and that it was about time that something did, only she couldn&#8217;t think of what.  <\/p>\n<p>Overall I was disappointed, but it&#8217;s a light, pleasant read (considering the topic) and not hard to get through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lovely Bones got off to a good start. It&#8217;s certainly built around an original idea &#8211; a girl narrating, from heaven, the aftermath of her own murder. Unfortunately, after the initial burst of energy died down, it got a little old. There was no pacing, no startling events, just a slow meander down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}