{"id":100,"date":"2002-02-15T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2002-02-15T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=100"},"modified":"2002-02-15T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2002-02-15T14:21:25","slug":"stevermer_carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/02\/stevermer_carol\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevermer, Caroline: (02) When the King Comes Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"9865062\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_9865062\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Re-read <strong>Caroline Stevermer&#8217;s <cite>When the King Comes Home<\/cite><\/strong>; I&#8217;d been fighting off the urge ever since the winter holidays (something about the time of year; maybe it&#8217;s just that I first read it around then), but since I was kind of on a roll with cranky narrators, I decided I might as well give in.<\/p>\n<p>I really, <em>really<\/em> like this book, as I said in my <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/reviews\/whenking.html\">review<\/a>. A few, very random, additional comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I continue to be very impressed by the level of craft in the prose.<\/li>\n<li>In retrospect, I tend to think the book starts a little slowly, but I never notice it when I&#8217;m reading. The ending still makes me sniffle.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d mentioned in my review that this and <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/01\/walton_jo_101-1\/\">Jo Walton&#8217;s Sulien books<\/a> were both novels in the form of elderly women writing down Arthurian-related long-ago events; they also happen to share competent and interesting Guinevere analogues, a remarkably rare thing (the books are otherwise dissimilar).<\/li>\n<li>An unoriginal lament about art within novels: I want to see the paintings described in the book (like I want the rest of <cite>Ask to Embla<\/cite>, and Crispin&#8217;s mosaics, and .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. ). I also want her next book, a sequel to <cite>A College of Magics<\/cite>, which has been <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?selm=72g7ctc0g46cr6amtb9q8mjthr7kqldi3v@4ax.com\" title=\"Usenet post about sale\">sold<\/a> but not, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/scheduletor.html\" title=\"Tor Book's current publishing schedule\">scheduled<\/a>&#8212;but at least there&#8217;s a reasonable prospect of getting <em>that<\/em>. (Ooooh. I also just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tc.umn.edu\/~d-lena\/Stevermer%20page.html\" title=\"Stevermer and Wrede page\">found out<\/a> that not only is a reprint of <cite>Sorcery and Cecelia<\/cite> in the works, but so is a sequel. Hot damn.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-read Caroline Stevermer&#8217;s When the King Comes Home; I&#8217;d been fighting off the urge ever since the winter holidays (something about the time of year; maybe it&#8217;s just that I first read it around then), but since I was kind of on a roll with cranky narrators, I decided I might as well give in. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/02\/stevermer_carol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stevermer, Caroline: (02) When the King Comes Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,81,15],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-greenlaw-glasscastle-sf-and-fantasy","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-stevermer-caroline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}