{"id":164,"date":"2006-05-25T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-05-25T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T14:33:00","slug":"underpainter-by-jane-urquhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/05\/underpainter-by-jane-urquhart.html","title":{"rendered":"The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while to get into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140269738\/tradgirl\" target='new'>The Underpainter<\/a>.  The narrator isn&#8217;t sympathetic.  He&#8217;s emotionless, which turns out to be the point, so it works eventually, but at the start the story just seemed flat and lacking in emotion.  I got more interested as the book went on and was reading pretty enthusiastically by the end, but it&#8217;s always difficult when the narrator is unlikeable.  <\/p>\n<p>The writing was good, poetic in places.  The story was odd but believable because the characters were odd but believable.  I enjoyed this book but wouldn&#8217;t necessarily run out to read another of hers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while to get into The Underpainter. The narrator isn&#8217;t sympathetic. He&#8217;s emotionless, which turns out to be the point, so it works eventually, but at the start the story just seemed flat and lacking in emotion. I got more interested as the book went on and was reading pretty enthusiastically by [&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-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}