{"id":717,"date":"2011-07-22T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=717"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:40:53","slug":"caudwell_04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2011\/07\/caudwell_04\/","title":{"rendered":"Caudwell, Sarah: (04) <cite>The Sibyl in Her Grave<\/cite> (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2010\/11\/caudwell_sarah_1.php\">did eventually get around<\/a> to re-reading <strong>the last of Sarah Caudwell&#8217;s Hilary Tamar books, <cite>The Sibyl in Her Grave<\/cite><\/strong>, and was immediately sorry I hadn&#8217;t done it sooner. I&#8217;d been thinking that it was much drearier, longer, and less good than the others, but I was entirely wrong: I think it&#8217;s probably the best of the four [*], and though there is a thread that I find very difficult to read, it&#8217;s like Frodo and Sam in Mordor in that it takes up much less of the book than I&#8217;d remembered.<\/p>\n<p>Also, when I said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/03\/caudwell_sarah.php\">the first time through<\/a> that I was &#8220;rather tempted to read as a meditation on chronic illness&#8221;? Apparently I missed the bit where that comparison is explicitly drawn (the letter in chapter 21).<\/p>\n<p>[*] It&#8217;s the kind of jump that I imagine Harriet Vane&#8217;s novels taking post-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/07\/sayers_hhc.php\"><cite>Have His Carcase<\/cite><\/a>, if that helps. (Apparently I am feeling very literarily-referential tonight.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I did eventually get around to re-reading the last of Sarah Caudwell&#8217;s Hilary Tamar books, The Sibyl in Her Grave, and was immediately sorry I hadn&#8217;t done it sooner. I&#8217;d been thinking that it was much drearier, longer, and less good than the others, but I was entirely wrong: I think it&#8217;s probably the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2011\/07\/caudwell_04\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caudwell, Sarah: (04) <cite>The Sibyl in Her Grave<\/cite> (re-read)&#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":[48,85,6],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hilary-tamar","category-mystery","tag-caudwell-sarah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}