{"id":2452,"date":"2016-02-23T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2016-02-23T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T23:08:40","slug":"book-log-6-undermajordomo-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #16: Undermajordomo Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Undermajordomo Minor<\/em> by Patrick DeWitt [Little Shop of Stories, Hardcover, $19.82]<\/p>\n<p>This was recommended at Little Shop of Stories with one of those handwritten signs by one of the employees.  I always lend credence to those recommendations, as they work in a book shop, and probably read a fair number of books.  I can&#8217;t remember being disappointed, and this time is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to describe this novel would be eccentric and witty.  The time and setting is vague&#8230; there are small towns, castles with Barons and Baronesses, trains&#8230; The author was very careful to give a sense of atmosphere without pinning it down too tightly as to specifics.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogues are especially witty, and are reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n<p>A good, albiet short, read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>52 Book\/Year Challenge<\/strong><br \/>\nWeek: 8<br \/>\nBook\/Week Ratio: 2:1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt [Little Shop of Stories, Hardcover, $19.82] This was recommended at Little Shop of Stories with one of those handwritten signs by one of the employees. I always lend credence to those recommendations, as they work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2452\">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":[481,513,511],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","category-little-shop-of-stories","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","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=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}