{"id":1367,"date":"2012-02-11T00:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2012-02-11T00:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:34:21","slug":"1q84-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/1q84-review\/","title":{"rendered":"1Q84 review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10357575-1q84?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_book\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1Q84\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1316729331m\/10357575.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a fascinating and odd novel. I&#8217;ve never read anything quite like it.<\/p>\n<p>Vivid characters &#8212; Aomame, the gifted assassin and Tengo the underachieving genius mathematician \/ writer. Mix in blank-faced and dyslexic Fuka Eri, the cult, the Little People. A meandering and mind-exploding story. Murakami&#8217;s language is deceptively simple. The reader falls into the story, not realizing what they&#8217;re in for. I ended up loading this novel onto my phone so I could read it in bits and snatches. I was continually caught off balance by the various twists and turns.<\/p>\n<p>I loved all the little threads that intertwined throughout and how in the end they made perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p>Hard really to explain this novel. I am sure there are people who would throw it against the wall only 50 pages in, but I was entranced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}