{"id":1480,"date":"2011-04-23T19:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2011-04-23T19:24:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:24:28","slug":"the-physick-book-of-deliverance-dane-by-katherine-howe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe"},"content":{"rendered":"

19 of 52 in my 2011 book blogging challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll start by saying I thought this book was okay, but that’s about it. I wasn’t particularly impressed. I did, however, enjoy the little bits of historical detail tossed into a story that otherwise only marginally grabbed my attention.<\/p>\n

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane<\/a> is about the Salem Witch Trials. Connie, the main character, is a Harvard graduate student looking for a dissertation topic. She uncovers details about Deliverance Dane in her grandmother’s house. Deliverance was executed as a witch in Salem, and wouldn’t you know with a name like Constance, our heroine turns out to be a direct descendant. She also happens to have some witchy powers that she manages to discover along the way.<\/p>\n

I thought the plot was too predictable to be suspenseful and that the dialogue was a little on the corny side. I wasn’t expecting great literature. I would have been happy with your average lowbrow page-turner, but this one was still only “just okay” as far as I was concerned.<\/p>\n

It did, however, renew my interest in Salem, and I ended up watching The Crucible<\/a> after I read it. That I do recommend.<\/p>\n

The story of Salem itself is fascinating. How a few young girls could make accusations that would turn a whole town crazy enough to execute an ongoing string of innocent people is nearly unfathomable. I think I’ll read a non-fiction piece about it next, though. Apparently, once I read Arthur Miller’s rendition I was done with the fictional versions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19 of 52 in my 2011 book blogging challenge. I’ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}