{"id":122,"date":"2007-07-11T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T02:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-12-14T23:47:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T03:47:04","slug":"the-egypt-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"The Egypt Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished <em>The Egypt Game<\/em> by Zilpha Keatley Snyder last night.<\/p>\n<p>Grade: B+<\/p>\n<p>I bet I would have loved <em>The Egypt Game<\/em> if I had read it as a child. Coming from a suburb, I enjoyed stories set in more urban areas, which seemed so much more exciting and dangerous. I was also fascinated by Egyptology. This book would have been perfect for me.<\/p>\n<p>Reading it from a strictly adult perspective, I often felt like I could see the cogs of the author&#8217;s brain turning, places where she made deliberate choices instead of letting the characters develop naturally. Though it felt contrived in a lot of ways (the balanced racial mix of the characters, for example), it had a solid plot and a satisfactory ending, which is more than I can say for a lot of books. Children who are just looking for a fun story will find it in <em>The Egypt Game<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My copy of the book was already tanned with age and slightly warped when I started to read it. By the time I finished, it was starting to split. I am going to give it away and hope that it stays together long enough to earn a special place in some young reader&#8217;s library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder last night. Grade: B+ I bet I would have loved The Egypt Game if I had read it as a child. Coming from a suburb, I enjoyed stories set in more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=122\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}