{"id":98,"date":"2007-06-26T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-12-14T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T03:51:39","slug":"fast-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Fast Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, I finished another book: <em>Storm Thief<\/em> by Chris Wooding. I found this book on the New Fiction shelf of the library&#8217;s YA section.<\/p>\n<p>Grade: B<\/p>\n<p><em>Storm Thief<\/em> is a quick and fun read. It has plenty of unique elements, but they are sometimes overshadowed by similarities to other works of fiction. There are also times when the characters&#8217; feelings and motivations are overexplained in a way that I associate with bad romance novels.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s something really interesting: the author has had several other novels published and he&#8217;s only 30 years old! It&#8217;s strange to be reading fiction by someone younger than myself, and I wonder if knowing his age might have made me either a kinder or harsher critic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, I finished another book: Storm Thief by Chris Wooding. I found this book on the New Fiction shelf of the library&#8217;s YA section. Grade: B Storm Thief is a quick and fun read. It has plenty of unique elements, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=98\">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\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}