{"id":271,"date":"2005-02-28T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=271"},"modified":"2007-03-03T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T13:58:59","slug":"sunshine-by-robin-mckinley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/28\/sunshine-by-robin-mckinley\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine, by Robin McKinley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0515138819\">Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stopped by the library a few days ago and picked up a bunch of books that I was vaguely interested in, but not enough to toss into one of my Amazon orders.  Mostly quick reads, so you&#8217;ll see several book reviews over the next couple weeks as I slam through them.<\/p>\n<p>This one was recommended by a friend due to my Buffy obsession as another take on the tale of the young woman called into service to fight the vampires.  It was okay.  I liked the world, and the juxtaposition of the matter-of-fact and the otherworldly.  None of the characters really grabbed me, though.  And some of the more interesting aspects of the world are never fully developed.  I thought it was an okay read, but it&#8217;s not a book I&#8217;m going to run out and buy.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I&#8217;ve only bought one of the Buffy books, and thought it was terrible.  The presentation on screen brings the Buffyverse to life in a way that the books fail to.  Credit for that should probably be split between Joss and the actors.  Plus the dialogue is much better in the real episodes.  And I&#8217;m totally a sucker for witty dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon link I stopped by the library a few days ago and picked up a bunch of books that I was vaguely interested in, but not enough to toss into one of my Amazon orders. Mostly quick reads, so you&#8217;ll see several book reviews over the next couple weeks as I slam through them. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}