{"id":44,"date":"2001-10-02T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2001-10-03T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=44"},"modified":"2001-10-02T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2001-10-03T03:03:16","slug":"talley_marcia_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/10\/talley_marcia_e\/","title":{"rendered":"Talley, Marcia (ed.): Naked Came the Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"6072167\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_6072167\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I borrowed <strong><cite>Naked Came the Phoenix<\/cite>, edited by Marcia Talley<\/strong>, mostly on a whim. It&#8217;s a serial novel, &agrave; la <cite>The Floating Admiral<\/cite>, by a group of female mystery writers; a portion of the proceeds go to breast cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>One of the authors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cco.caltech.edu\/~gatti\/gabaldon\/gabaldon.html\">Diana Gabaldon, mentioned it on her web page<\/a>, and since the library had it, I thought it was worth a try. The pleasure in reading a serial novel is watching one author leave a bombshell at the end of her chapter for the next to deal with, and seeing how the next person turns the bombshell into her own. I don&#8217;t read chapter-by-chapter, though: I usually plow straight ahead, barely noticing divisions like chapters, to find out what happens next. Judged that way, this is pretty goofy (as I suspect many such efforts are). Judged as a serial novel . . . well, it&#8217;s still pretty goofy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed Naked Came the Phoenix, edited by Marcia Talley, mostly on a whim. It&#8217;s a serial novel, &agrave; la The Floating Admiral, by a group of female mystery writers; a portion of the proceeds go to breast cancer research. One of the authors, Diana Gabaldon, mentioned it on her web page, and since the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/10\/talley_marcia_e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talley, Marcia (ed.): Naked Came the Phoenix&#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":[48,6],"tags":[219,407],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mystery","tag-gabaldon-diana","tag-talley-marcia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}