{"id":868,"date":"2008-01-22T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:44:23","slug":"book-log-fragile-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Fragile Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Fragile Things<\/i> by Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p>A collection of short stories akin to Gaiman&#8217;s <i>Smoke and Mirrors<\/i> which I read about a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>I remember being wowed by <i>Smoke and Mirrors<\/i>.  I enjoyed this book, but I&#8217;m not walking away with a &#8220;wow&#8221; feeling.  Is it because it&#8217;s more of the same?  Is it because these short stories aren&#8217;t quite as awesome as the last one?  Am I reading it in a different mood, less receptive to this mode of storytelling?  Dunno.<\/p>\n<p>Fairly or unfairly, this one wasn&#8217;t as memorable but still enjoyable.  Of course, a more positive spin would be &#8220;almost as good as that awesome <i>Smoke and Mirrors<\/i> book!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Possibly, there just weren&#8217;t enough short vampire stories in this one, though there were a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman A collection of short stories akin to Gaiman&#8217;s Smoke and Mirrors which I read about a year ago. I remember being wowed by Smoke and Mirrors. I enjoyed this book, but I&#8217;m not walking away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=868\">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":[494,372],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}