{"id":1068,"date":"2009-04-02T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:43:33","slug":"book-log-winters-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Winter&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Winter&#8217;s Tale<\/i> by Mark Helprin<\/p>\n<p>Published in 1983, this is a fantasy\/alternate history novel taking place around two turns of centuries, 1900s and 2000s.  It&#8217;s got master burglers, flying horses, a mystical small town, and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a theme that I can&#8217;t get behind (that reason needs the mystical to be in balance) but otherwise it&#8217;s a poetically written book that I enjoyed more for the parts than the whole.  There&#8217;s a comical sequence about a hobo who does absolutely everything wrong that I quite enjoyed, a dialog in mechanical technobabble that was artfully written and the individual character&#8217;s stories were engaging overall.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good read that I have <a href=\"http:\/\/jaysaint.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jaysaint<\/a> to thank for, <a href=\"http:\/\/electricrocket.livejournal.com\/65578.html#cutid1\">many years after the fact.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter&#8217;s Tale by Mark Helprin Published in 1983, this is a fantasy\/alternate history novel taking place around two turns of centuries, 1900s and 2000s. It&#8217;s got master burglers, flying horses, a mystical small town, and New York City. There&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}