{"id":3267,"date":"2024-07-06T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T23:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T23:05:45","slug":"review-birnam-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"Review: Birnam Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked this up on a lark.  I was between holds at my library and this was on on one of the digital shelves of new well-regarded books.  Something in the summary caught my eye, so I grabbed it.  It was more than I expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birnam<\/em> stuck the landing in a way that few books I&#8217;ve read have.  I thought I&#8217;d read one kind of book, and in the last few pages realized I&#8217;d read quite another.  I admired the second one much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For obvious reasons, I don&#8217;t want to say more.  Have a look at the blurbs and if it sounds remotely interesting to you, check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may reach the end and feel like it was a straight line.  I think it&#8217;s probably a good read even if that&#8217;s the case.  You may be surprised by and be put off.  I just don&#8217;t know.  But I know I think it&#8217;s quite a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up on a lark. I was between holds at my library and this was on on one of the digital shelves of new well-regarded books. Something in the summary caught my eye, so I grabbed it. It was more than I expected. Birnam stuck the landing in a way that few books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","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=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}