{"id":223,"date":"2007-01-28T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-01-28T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T17:33:00","slug":"light-in-august-by-william-faulkner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/01\/light-in-august-by-william-faulkner.html","title":{"rendered":"Light in August by William Faulkner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faulkner just amazes me.  Even when I don&#8217;t have the least idea what he&#8217;s saying.  Actually, despite a warning that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/067964248X\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Light in August<\/a> could be a difficult read, it was one of his more straightforward books and I think I got all of it.  There are two plots &#8211; the main one of Joe Christmas&#8217;s life and death &#8211; and the plot that surrounds it of a woman  left to bear her child out of wedlock searching for its father.  First you get a few chapters of the woman, then tons of chapters about Christmas, and finally the woman comes back.  What I don&#8217;t get, I guess, is the significance of that &#8211; how the two even relate to each other besides taking place in the same town.<\/p>\n<p>But Faulkner could break every rule, write a book without a plot at all, do whatever he pleases, and I&#8217;d still be soaking it up.  Because his language is so evocative.  Because there are so many &#8220;yes&#8221; moments when reading his work where you know that it couldn&#8217;t have been put any better.  There&#8217;s a reason why there&#8217;s a lot of Faulkner on the 100 Best list.  This is the last of three of them, but I&#8217;ll read his other works as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faulkner just amazes me. Even when I don&#8217;t have the least idea what he&#8217;s saying. Actually, despite a warning that Light in August could be a difficult read, it was one of his more straightforward books and I think I got all of it. There are two plots &#8211; the main one of Joe Christmas&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-best","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}