{"id":2521,"date":"2016-09-27T00:18:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2016-10-19T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T01:36:27","slug":"book-log-40-skellig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #40 &#8211; Skellig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Skellig<\/em> by David Almond (Amazon, $6.29)<\/p>\n<p>Nick Hornby recommended this one.  He&#8217;s even got a blurb on the cover&#8230; &#8220;One of the best novels publishedin the last decade&#8230; A beautifully simple and bottomlessly complicated story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To date, Nick Hornby has never steered me wrong.  I have no memory of not enjoying one of his recs.<\/p>\n<p>Skellig was&#8230; okay.  It didn&#8217;t have a significant impact on me one way or another.  <\/p>\n<p>Granted, it&#8217;s a young adult novel, but I&#8217;ve been reading a number of those recently with great success, so I don&#8217;t see that as a major excuse.<\/p>\n<p>Just&#8230; okay.<\/p>\n<p>In brief, a boy whose baby sister is in the hospital finds a broken down humanish creature in a shed.  There are some heartstrings pulled.<\/p>\n<p>Books Read: 40<br \/>\nWeek Number: 38<br \/>\nBooks\/Week: 1.05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skellig by David Almond (Amazon, $6.29) Nick Hornby recommended this one. He&#8217;s even got a blurb on the cover&#8230; &#8220;One of the best novels publishedin the last decade&#8230; A beautifully simple and bottomlessly complicated story.&#8221; To date, Nick Hornby has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2521\">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":[512,513],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","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=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}