{"id":647,"date":"2009-01-06T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T11:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=647"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:39:55","slug":"cooper_05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/01\/cooper_05\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper, Susan: (05) <cite>Silver on the Tree<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an extremely peculiar book <strong>Susan Cooper&#8217;s <cite>Silver on the Tree<\/cite><\/strong> is.<\/p>\n<p>It has some very wonderful and haunting episodes, both scary and moving. And yet many of those are embedded in a long section with a peculiarly metafictional bent that I can&#8217;t get a handle on, that doesn&#8217;t quite seem to fit, but that my thoughts always slide off of as though it were a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on one hand, it rests the penultimate development on mortal choice and judgment. On the other hand, it rests the ultimate development on plot tokens taken to the logical but idiotic conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn&#8217;t even mention the very ending, which sends many people I know into frothing rages. (Or the unanswered questions of why the Drews, or why the huge privileging of Great Britain in the fight against the Dark, or why the very odd <a href=\"http:\/\/truepenny.livejournal.com\/62533.html\">treatment of women<\/a> in the book&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. )<\/p>\n<p>Color me baffled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an extremely peculiar book Susan Cooper&#8217;s Silver on the Tree is. It has some very wonderful and haunting episodes, both scary and moving. And yet many of those are embedded in a long section with a peculiarly metafictional bent that I can&#8217;t get a handle on, that doesn&#8217;t quite seem to fit, but that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/01\/cooper_05\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cooper, Susan: (05) <cite>Silver on the Tree<\/cite>&#8220;<\/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":[48,61,15],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dark-is-rising-series","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-cooper-susan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}