{"id":261,"date":"2006-12-26T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=261"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T00:02:49","slug":"la_reine_de_fra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/12\/la_reine_de_fra.html","title":{"rendered":"La Reine de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like I, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/11\/big_screen_mari.html\">went to see Sofia Coppola&#8217;s Marie Antoinette<\/a>, and then became, shall we say, a wee bit obsessed, I can recommend both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/features\/2003_11_000969.php\"><b>Versailles by Kathryn Davis <\/b><\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senajeternaslund.com\/\"><b>Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund<\/b><\/a>. Very different in construct, plot, style, yet both capture the mood just perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Versailles is short and choppy and a jumble of styles (prose, drama, dialogue), with an obsession with numbers and counting. Abundance is long and flowing and first-person narrative. Both were, simply put, page turners. Quite enchanting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like I, went to see Sofia Coppola&#8217;s Marie Antoinette, and then became, shall we say, a wee bit obsessed, I can recommend both Versailles by Kathryn Davis and Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund. Very different in construct, plot, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/12\/la_reine_de_fra.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}