{"id":2535,"date":"2022-05-09T04:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2022-05-09T04:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:18:05","slug":"review-the-glass-hotel-by-emily-st-john-mandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-glass-hotel-by-emily-st-john-mandel\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having read (and loved) <em>Sea of Tranquility<\/em> I was surprised to discover the same characters in this earlier book by Emily St. John Mandel.  I may be reading the books in the wrong order, but once you realise that time doesn&#8217;t flow in normal ways in these novels, it doesn&#8217;t really matter.  While the more recent book has been labelled a time travel story, which was its appeal for me, this is more of a ghost story.  Though neither of those labels are really fully accurate.  Let&#8217;s just say that these are stories with characters one grows to care about, even if these characters are deeply flawed.  I finished the book with a profound sense of sadness, and yet I would recommend it to others.  If that makes any sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having read (and loved) Sea of Tranquility I was surprised to discover the same characters in this earlier book by Emily St. John Mandel. I may be reading the books in the wrong order, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","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\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}