{"id":1241,"date":"2009-07-17T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2011-10-29T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:26:20","slug":"fiction_motherl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/fiction_motherl.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our June <a href=\"crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/dads_and_my_rea-4.html\">challenge<\/a> book.<\/p>\n<p>We both just TOTALLY loved this book.  So much fantastic word play.  Great plot, nice details on the L.I.C.\/BQE area of NYC.  A completely original take on this type of book, just takes it to another level.<\/p>\n<p>As <u>DadReaction<\/u> put it:  you know, I usually don&#8217;t enjoy bizarre narrators but I really&#8211;EAT ME, MINNAWEED&#8211;like Lionel&#8211;and the unlocking of the Tourette&#8217;s experience is just dazzling (like when he talks about the environments that calm him). Balmslim. Slamkill. Allmiss.  Really good.<\/p>\n<p>Also (GR here again) reminded me of the character Adah from Kingsolver&#8217;s <strong>The Poisonwood Bible<\/strong> (a great book and to my mind by far the best Kingsolver book).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our June challenge book. We both just TOTALLY loved this book. So much fantastic word play. Great plot, nice details on the L.I.C.\/BQE area of NYC. A completely original take on this type of book, just takes it to another &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/fiction_motherl.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":[13,46,22,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-challenge_09","category-dadreaction","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}