{"id":1488,"date":"2018-09-30T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2018-09-30T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T11:20:21","slug":"review-moonstone-the-boy-who-never-was-by-sjon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-moonstone-the-boy-who-never-was-by-sjon\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, by Sj\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book during the same week that I saw a theatrical adaptation of Albert Camus&#8217; novel, The Plague.  Both works are concerned with epidemics, but there the similarity ends.  While the Camus novel shows an epidemic of bubonic plague destroying a north African town, its focus is on the adults who are grappling with the disease.  Moonstone is the story of a boy, and a rather unusual boy at that, who experiences the impact of Spanish flu in 1918 in Iceland.  It is an extraordinary story, and he is an extraordinary boy, and the less I tell you about what happens, the more you may enjoy the book.  This is powerful stuff, a story about tragedy and death, but also growth and hope.  Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book during the same week that I saw a theatrical adaptation of Albert Camus&#8217; novel, The Plague. Both works are concerned with epidemics, but there the similarity ends. While the Camus novel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}