{"id":232,"date":"2007-03-24T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=232"},"modified":"2007-03-24T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T15:05:00","slug":"handful-of-dust-by-evelyn-waugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/03\/handful-of-dust-by-evelyn-waugh.html","title":{"rendered":"A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375414207\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">A Handful of Dust<\/a> is one of those books from the 100 Best list that makes me shrug.  It was OK, nothing special.  I&#8217;m pretty sure I could pick up any random novel at the airport and get something as well written and entertaining, which is to say not much.  <\/p>\n<p>At first the book is about a Lady in England who&#8217;s bored with her husband and country life and who consequently falls in love with a gentleman of much lower standing.  When an accident further upsets her life, she asks for a divorce.  The husband still loves her and decides to fight back.  So far, so good.  Not earth shattering but readable.  <\/p>\n<p>Then, for no explicable reason, the husband goes off to the jungle in South America where he eventually ends up captured and presumed dead.  We never do hear what happens to the woman who was the star of the first half of the book.  Stupid.  Implausible.  Pointless.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly it&#8217;s satire but apparently I have a different meaning for that word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Handful of Dust is one of those books from the 100 Best list that makes me shrug. It was OK, nothing special. I&#8217;m pretty sure I could pick up any random novel at the airport and get something as well written and entertaining, which is to say not much. At first the book is [&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-232","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\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}