{"id":244,"date":"2007-06-16T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=244"},"modified":"2007-06-16T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T14:29:00","slug":"lover-of-unreason-by-yehuda-koren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/06\/lover-of-unreason-by-yehuda-koren.html","title":{"rendered":"Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0786718617\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath&#8217;s Rival and Ted Hughes&#8217; Doomed Love<\/a> is primarily about Assia Weville who&#8217;s probably the least interesting of the three people in this triangle.  Ted Hughes, who drove them both to suicide, certainly comes off as a scrungy character.  I wouldn&#8217;t want to be him.  Unfortunately, the book doesn&#8217;t have access to his side of things so you only know that Assia was miserable, not particularly what he did to cause it.  <\/p>\n<p>The evidence presented doesn&#8217;t amount to much.  He slept with her for a while, maybe fathered a child (the assumption is that Shura is his but there&#8217;s no evidence presented for that either), and later lost interest.  Sounds like he cheated on her repeatedly, but since she got him while he was cheating on his wife, that shouldn&#8217;t have surprised her.  <\/p>\n<p>All in all, I couldn&#8217;t feel sorry for Assia.  She didn&#8217;t seem to have any redeeming qualities despite thinking a lot of herself.  She should have dumped Ted, grown up, and found a reason to be proud of herself that didn&#8217;t require a man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath&#8217;s Rival and Ted Hughes&#8217; Doomed Love is primarily about Assia Weville who&#8217;s probably the least interesting of the three people in this triangle. Ted Hughes, who drove them both to suicide, certainly comes off as a scrungy character. I wouldn&#8217;t want to be him. Unfortunately, the book doesn&#8217;t [&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-244","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\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}