{"id":784,"date":"2005-06-01T18:59:02","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T01:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/784"},"modified":"2005-06-01T18:59:02","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T01:59:02","slug":"swordspoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/784","title":{"rendered":"Swordspoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Swordspoint<\/em> (1987) Ellen Kushner<\/p>\n<p>While waiting for the last book in Sean Russell&#8217;s &#8216;The Swan&#8217;s War&#8217; to arrive, I decided to indluge in a book I&#8217;ve read fairly recently and loved.<\/p>\n<p>This book is just as gorgeous as I remember. The writing is absolutely lovely, drawing my into the story from the first sentence. The story is excellent, but it&#8217;s the writing that I love so much.<\/p>\n<p>And as a bonus, there are additional short stories in the back of the book, so not only do you get to read just a little bit more, the book gets to surprise you with its ending, as you don&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s something. (Which is one reason why I like books with previews in the back. Not because I read the previews&#8211;I don&#8217;t&#8211;but because they allow the end of the book to sneak up on me, and there&#8217;s something satisfying about that.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to find something else to read while I&#8217;m waiting for &#8216;The Shadow Roads&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/library\/000253.html\">Read my First Review of <em>Swordspoint<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swordspoint (1987) Ellen Kushner While waiting for the last book in Sean Russell&#8217;s &#8216;The Swan&#8217;s War&#8217; to arrive, I decided to indluge in a book I&#8217;ve read fairly recently and loved. This book is just as gorgeous as I remember. The writing is absolutely lovely, drawing my into the story from the first sentence. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-cE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}