{"id":5081,"date":"2015-01-28T13:32:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:17:26","slug":"owl-and-the-japanese-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5081","title":{"rendered":"Owl and the Japanese Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KE4ITF0\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00KE4ITF0&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=QXMVQDBEMT4LMRVU\">Owl and the Japanese Circus<\/a><\/em> (2015) Kristi Charish<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KE4ITF0\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00KE4ITF0&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkId=QXMVQDBEMT4LMRVU\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Owl-Japanese-Circus.jpg?resize=193%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Owl-Japanese-Circus\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5082\" \/><\/a>This wasn&#8217;t a throw-across-the-room bad book, but also wasn&#8217;t good.<\/p>\n<p>Owl is a former archaeology grad student who was manipulated and forced out of her program.<\/p>\n<p>She is also selfish and irritating and self-absorbed. <\/p>\n<p>Her only good quality is her cat, who senses and attacks vampires, but even the bits with Captain were far-fetched. (Just a couple hours to train a cat? That is a pure fantasy.)<\/p>\n<p>I finished this book solely so I could have a sense of accomplishment and I was curious as to how the problems would be resolved, but I can&#8217;t said I read the second half of the book that closely (being a fast reader who is able to skim is a very useful skill sometimes) which is okay, because it wasn&#8217;t worth it.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, it wasn&#8217;t full of typos and grammatical mistakes and continuity errors. But that&#8217;s about all I&#8217;m willing to give it.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 4\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Gallery Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owl and the Japanese Circus (2015) Kristi Charish This wasn&#8217;t a throw-across-the-room bad book, but also wasn&#8217;t good. Owl is a former archaeology grad student who was manipulated and forced out of her program. She is also selfish and irritating and self-absorbed. Her only good quality is her cat, who senses and attacks vampires, but [&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":[15,2,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disliked-or-abandoned","category-fantasy","category-romance","category-supernatural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1jX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25416,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25416","url_meta":{"origin":5081,"position":0},"title":"Mirror Lake, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"August 31, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Mirror Lake, Audio Book (2022) Juneau Black narrated by Cassandra Campbell (Shady Hollow #3) At the base of the great elm tree that Heidegger called home, Vera pulled the bell rope to alert the owl. 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