{"id":418,"date":"2010-05-06T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/?p=418"},"modified":"2010-05-06T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T19:24:55","slug":"good-morning-midnight-by-jean-rhys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2010\/05\/good-morning-midnight-by-jean-rhys.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393303942\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Good Morning, Midnight<\/a> is the disjointed story of a woman drinking too much in Paris.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t say, and she probably can&#8217;t either, whether the misery in her life has caused the drinking or the other way around.\u00a0 She seems to have been always lost, now found only through the alcohol.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a lovingly accurate portrait of a disintegrating alcoholic, but I have trouble with stories written in this vague literary style.\u00a0 The anal-compulsive in me likes to understand exactly what is happening now, what happened then, and in what order and why.\u00a0 But then, life isn&#8217;t really like that, is it?  It&#8217;s also hard to like the main character&#8211;not hard to sympathize, but hard to like.  She&#8217;s a bundle of unhappy memories and fears with no redeeming hope or joy.  This is intentional, no doubt, but it makes for a sad book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning, Midnight is the disjointed story of a woman drinking too much in Paris.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t say, and she probably can&#8217;t either, whether the misery in her life has caused the drinking or the other way around.\u00a0 She seems to have been always lost, now found only through the alcohol.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a lovingly accurate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addictionmental-illness","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}