{"id":1105,"date":"2009-02-07T08:31:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T08:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:53:47","slug":"fantasy_tender_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/02\/fantasy_tender_.html","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy: Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soooooo good. I&#8217;ve recommended short stories by Lanagan to you before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/short_storiesfa.html\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/book_black_juic.html\">here<\/a>), and I believe this is her first novel. I will be eternally in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eend.nl\/dfc\/\">Marrije<\/a>&#8216;s debt for introducing me to such a great author.<\/p>\n<p>This is earthy, dark, bitter, spiky, sexy and tactile. It&#8217;s also sweet and loving and tender at times. The bad is often quite brutal, often in metaphor, and the good is quite poignant.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little surprised it was classed as YA. Certainly the fairy tales of our\/my youth flirted with just as much danger. But I don&#8217;t remember them being as powerful. Perhaps if I re-read them today, I would find myself gripping the book like an anchor and crying through chapters as I did here. But I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>So Good!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soooooo good. I&#8217;ve recommended short stories by Lanagan to you before (here or here), and I believe this is her first novel. I will be eternally in Marrije&#8216;s debt for introducing me to such a great author. This is earthy, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/02\/fantasy_tender_.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}