{"id":2484,"date":"2016-08-24T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:22:19","slug":"book-log-the-time-travelers-almanac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #32: The Time Traveler&#8217;s Almanac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Almanac<\/em> by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer [Amazon, Kindle, $12.99]<\/p>\n<p>If one is trying to complete 52 books in 52 weeks, then <em>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Almanac<\/em>, like <em>Bleak House<\/em>, is not a good choice.  It is quite a tome, though I didn&#8217;t realize it since I was reading in Kindle form.  The paperback version is 960 pages.<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, if one is looking for a really fantastic compilation of time travel short stories, then this book is the bomb.  Each story was a fresh perspective, most were extremely well written and engaging.  The editing was superb, as each story was fresh and different than the one before.<\/p>\n<p>Really enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Almanac by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer [Amazon, Kindle, $12.99] If one is trying to complete 52 books in 52 weeks, then The Time Traveler&#8217;s Almanac, like Bleak House, is not a good choice. It is quite a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2484\">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-2484","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\/2484","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=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}