{"id":58,"date":"2001-11-04T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2001-11-04T15:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=58"},"modified":"2001-11-04T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2001-11-04T15:22:05","slug":"gabaldon_diana_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/gabaldon_diana_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabaldon, Diana: (104) Drums of Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"6855502\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_6855502\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Drat. Finished re-reading <strong><cite>Drums of Autumn<\/cite><\/strong> almost a whole week before the next Diana Gabaldon book is going to arrive. Let&#8217;s see, ships on Tuesday, at least a couple of days in transit, but even if it got here before Friday I couldn&#8217;t read it, because I have this minor matter of a bar exam to take then (the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam; much shorter than the actual bar, but still have to pass it to practice). Hmph.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. I should have realized that since I&#8217;ve re-read <cite>Drums<\/cite> the most recently of the Outlander series, it would go faster even though I&#8217;ve been insanely busy. It&#8217;s hard to speak of &#8220;favorites&#8221; in a series that&#8217;s an ongoing story (easier where the books are separate stories about the same people, like Bujold&#8217;s fabulous Vorkosigan books), but I think you can say which are better done, at least. <cite>Drums<\/cite>, like the prior book, <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/10\/gabaldon_diana_2\/\"><cite>Voyager<\/cite><\/a>, does reasonably well at not having cliffhangers&#8212;unlike the prior two, which is why, while I&#8217;m twitching over the release of <cite>The Fiery Cross<\/cite>, I managed to restrain myself enough to go for the deep discount at Amazon rather than the instant gratification of walking into the local chain (besides which, I don&#8217;t like the local chain, and don&#8217;t trust them to get it on the shelves on time. I miss having a Borders nearby.). The books still aren&#8217;t self-contained in any meaningful sense, but I find them more satisfying to read when the story is rounded-off, I suppose, coming around to the beginning but leaving the characters at a natural break in their relationships. Also, the minor verbal tics that bothered me in <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/10\/gabaldon_diana\/\"><cite>Outlander<\/cite><\/a> have gone away, and the varied narrative voices are done quite well. (And did I mention that I really like John Grey?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I will just have to troll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cco.caltech.edu\/~gatti\/gabaldon\/gabaldon.html\">Gabaldon&#8217;s website<\/a> looking for excerpts I might have somehow missed to tide me over until the new book arrives&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drat. Finished re-reading Drums of Autumn almost a whole week before the next Diana Gabaldon book is going to arrive. Let&#8217;s see, ships on Tuesday, at least a couple of days in transit, but even if it got here before Friday I couldn&#8217;t read it, because I have this minor matter of a bar exam &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/gabaldon_diana_3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gabaldon, Diana: (104) Drums of Autumn&#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":[48,78,108],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-general-fiction","category-outlander","tag-gabaldon-diana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}