{"id":234,"date":"2003-09-11T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T01:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=234"},"modified":"2003-09-11T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T01:31:45","slug":"montgomery_lm_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/montgomery_lm_p\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery, L.M.: Pat of Silver Bush; Mistress Pat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After re-reading <cite>The Curse of Chalion<\/cite>, I only really felt like reading the new Bujold, but not having a copy, well, I settled for something undemanding like <strong>L.M. Montgomery&#8217;s <cite>Pat of Silver Bush<\/cite> and <cite>Mistress Pat<\/cite><\/strong>. I was reminded of these by a flurry of discussion of Montgomery&#8217;s Emily books on various LiveJournals. These are about a girl who&#8217;s in love with a house. Mostly they&#8217;re just people living their lives and telling stories, in the way that Montgomery does well, but there are two things that drove me nuts. First, a major character speaks in a brogue that&#8217;s phonetically rendered, and I hate phonetic dialogue. Second, the ending is absolutely <em>horrible<\/em>. Montgomery clearly wrote herself into a corner, but that&#8217;s no excuse for smashing her way out in the way that most insults the characters and the reader. I was warned that Montgomery&#8217;s inability to plot was on fine display in these, but I still found the ending highly dreadful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After re-reading The Curse of Chalion, I only really felt like reading the new Bujold, but not having a copy, well, I settled for something undemanding like L.M. Montgomery&#8217;s Pat of Silver Bush and Mistress Pat. I was reminded of these by a flurry of discussion of Montgomery&#8217;s Emily books on various LiveJournals. These are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/montgomery_lm_p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Montgomery, L.M.: Pat of Silver Bush; Mistress Pat&#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":[48,78],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-general-fiction","tag-montgomery-l-m"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}