{"id":3153,"date":"2015-09-29T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2015-12-02T22:08:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T22:08:31","slug":"another-fantastic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/another-fantastic-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Another fantastic book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1415583784l\/20170404.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20170404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other really great one I&#8217;ve read recently is Emily St John Mandel&#8217;s novel <em>Station Eleven<\/em>. A deeply thoughtful and moving look at what our civilization looks like, from just before and just after it ends. It reminded me of William Gibson and of David Mitchell. I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s <em>quite<\/em> in that very first rank, but it&#8217;s one of the best\u00a0books I&#8217;ve read in a long time, and I can&#8217;t wait to read more of her work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/14\/books\/review\/station-eleven-by-emily-st-john-mandel.html\">Spoilerful review in the NYT<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20170404-station-eleven\">spoilerful Goodreads page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other really great one I&#8217;ve read recently is Emily St John Mandel&#8217;s novel Station Eleven. A deeply thoughtful and moving look at what our civilization looks like, from just before and just after it ends. It reminded me of William Gibson and of David Mitchell. I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s quite in that very first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-OR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}