{"id":594,"date":"2010-03-23T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T08:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=594"},"modified":"2010-03-29T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:44:10","slug":"bookworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/bookworm\/","title":{"rendered":"bookworm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">The Eyre Affair<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">Jasper Fforde<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/eyre-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"the eyre affair\" title=\"the eyre affair\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/eyre-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/eyre-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/eyre.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/span>The first of the Thursday Next books introduces us to Fforde&#8217;s fantasy world of an alternate version of England, still mired in the Crimea, where classic literature is the popular entertainment of the masses.<br \/>\nNext is a civil servant working in the field of literary crime who becomes entangled in the machinations of a crazed criminal genius.<br \/>\nThis is a thoroughly enjoyable romp, if never quite as clever or as funny as it thinks it is.<br \/>\nSadly this series succumbed to the law of diminishing returns after a sequel or two.<br \/>\nRecommended from fans of comic fantasy or those looking for something plays with the conventions and history of literature in a humorous fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">Rating: A-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde The first of the Thursday Next books introduces us to Fforde&#8217;s fantasy world of an alternate version of England, still mired in the Crimea, where classic literature is the popular entertainment of the masses. Next is a civil servant working in the field of literary crime who becomes entangled in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,13,50,36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-3","category-books","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-humour","category-rated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}