{"id":4090,"date":"2013-10-20T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:11:52","slug":"charmed-im-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4090","title":{"rendered":"Charmed I&#8217;m Sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AFZ5OW4\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00AFZ5OW4&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">Charmed I&#8217;m Sure<\/a><\/em> (2013) Elliott James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AFZ5OW4\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00AFZ5OW4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Charmed_Im_Sure.jpg?resize=226%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Charmed__PushingLuck\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4091\" \/><\/a>I love short stories&#8211;they&#8217;re like catnip to me. And short stories that introduce a character or author&#8217;s writing before I have to buy the book are even better (I&#8217;ve gotten better about not finishing books I dislike, but I hate having spent money on terrible books, especially if I can&#8217;t sell them back.<\/p>\n<p>This was a good solid introduction to the author and the character. I can&#8217;t say that as a short story it blew me away (sorry, but it&#8217;s hard to live up to the author by whom I judge fantasy short stories, <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/delint.php\">Charles de Lint<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>One aside. I read the the story, then re-read and authors name, and was still surprised to see the author referred to as &#8220;he&#8221; and &#8220;him.&#8221; Of course, the author photo only made me feel more like it was a female author, and now I have no idea if it&#8217;s a marketing ploy or what. It&#8217;s totally my problem, but it gave me an odd disconnect.<br \/>\nRating: 7\/10<\/p>\n<p>Published by Orbit<br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/16173204\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charmed I&#8217;m Sure (2013) Elliott James I love short stories&#8211;they&#8217;re like catnip to me. And short stories that introduce a character or author&#8217;s writing before I have to buy the book are even better (I&#8217;ve gotten better about not finishing books I dislike, but I hate having spent money on terrible books, especially if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-short-story","category-supernatural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-13Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4095,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4095","url_meta":{"origin":4090,"position":0},"title":"Don&#8217;t Go Chasing Waterfalls","author":"Michelle","date":"October 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls (2013) Elliot James Another John Charming story, this occurs after Charmed I'm Sure and references that story. 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