{"id":16,"date":"2010-01-11T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-11-09T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T15:12:37","slug":"random-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/random-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001JQM5B6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=meltbrairamb-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B001JQM5B6\">Random Magic<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=meltbrairamb-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B001JQM5B6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/sorensasha\">Sasha Soren<\/a><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"brtext_54619530\">\n<div>\nThis review was written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/er\/list\">LibraryThing Early Reviewers<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nRandom Magic is a fantasy book about the search for Alice in Wonderland, who has gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is extremely whimsical and random, and full of allusions and references to&#8230;well, everything, really. And the kitchen sink. For me, this sometimes worked, but a lot of the time, especially in the first third of the book, I just felt that the author tried a bit too hard to cram in every single idea ever had by anyone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn my opinion, there&#8217;s a good book in here waiting to get out. A good editor could probably work wonders here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAll in all, if you like really crazy antics and whimsy, you will probably enjoy it. If you don&#8217;t, you won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<div>Rating: 2.5\/5<\/div>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2011-11-09T14:52:54+00:00\"><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random Magic by Sasha Soren This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Random Magic is a fantasy book about the search for Alice in Wonderland, who has gone missing. It is extremely whimsical and random, and full of allusions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/random-magic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookreview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meltingbrain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}