{"id":1695,"date":"2013-04-18T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2013-04-18T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:24:11","slug":"review-vampires-in-the-lemon-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vampires in the Lemon Grove<\/em> is a collection of wonderfully off-kilter short stories from Karen Russell that manage to be symbolic without being portentous.\u00a0 All of them have some aspect of the magical in them, but no two are alike.\u00a0 The variety of setting and character keeps the ideas fresh and the stories engaging.<\/p>\n<p>The stories are also refreshingly non-cinematic.\u00a0 More to the point, they&#8217;re literary without making too much of that fact.\u00a0 They are a pleasure to read as much for their language and their structure as they are for their incident.\u00a0 They hold the reader&#8217;s attention without spectacle or excessive flash.\u00a0 I wanted to see what happened as much for what it means as for how a story turns out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vampires<\/em> contains stories that reward\u00a0 contemplation and capture attention.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampires in the Lemon Grove is a collection of wonderfully off-kilter short stories from Karen Russell that manage to be symbolic without being portentous.\u00a0 All of them have some aspect of the magical in them, but no two are alike.\u00a0 The variety of setting and character keeps the ideas fresh and the stories engaging. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}