{"id":2460,"date":"2016-03-13T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2016-03-13T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T13:47:16","slug":"book-log-17-station-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #17: Station Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Station Eleven<\/em> by Emily St. John Mandel [Kindle, Amazon, $11.99]<\/p>\n<p>This was recommended by my friend Curt, who always gives good recs.  This book was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>One might describe it as a pre-and-post-apocalyptic novel, but that does it a disservice.  It&#8217;s really just a riveting story, well told.  Jumping back and forth in time, the characters stories come out in tantalizing small chunks.  In a way, it reminds me of <em>Cloud Atlas<\/em>&#8216; slow reveal.  <\/p>\n<p>Just a very engaging novel, without too much focus on the apocalyptic background, but just enough to get in some interesting insights on the effects of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel [Kindle, Amazon, $11.99] This was recommended by my friend Curt, who always gives good recs. This book was no exception. One might describe it as a pre-and-post-apocalyptic novel, but that does it a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2460\">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":[512,481,513,510],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-book-log","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}