{"id":542,"date":"2010-06-28T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=542"},"modified":"2010-06-28T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T16:01:06","slug":"the-swan-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"The Swan Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Elizabeth Kostova&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theswanthieves.com\/\">The Swan Thieves<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a good book.  I recommend it.  Really, you should read it.  I gave it 4 stars on Good Reads.  I give 4 stars to lots of books I would truly hope others might pick up and read.  So there you go.  Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theswanthieves.com\/\">The Swan Thieves<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I, however, am so busy being annoyed that this book is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Historian-Elizabeth-Kostova\/dp\/0316011770\">The Historian<\/a> that I&#8217;m not really sure how much I can praise it.  <em>The Historian<\/em> I have loved.  <em>The Historian<\/em> left me chilled to the bone and wanting more.  <em>The Historian<\/em> is a perfect 21st Century imitation and continuation of the tone and style and lyrically frightening thrills of the 19th Century <em>Dracula<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Swan Thieves<\/em> is by the same author.  I should know better than to make comparisons.  I should let each book stand on its own.  I should appreciate the deftness with which multiple stories of hopeless obsession are interwoven into the framework of a psychiatrist attempting to help his patient.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s true.  There is deftness of craft here.<\/p>\n<p>What there isn&#8217;t is my own sense of being awestruck by what I&#8217;ve just read.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, second book by a fantastic writer.  I like you well enough, but you just aren&#8217;t my new best friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Elizabeth Kostova&#8217;s The Swan Thieves. It&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}