{"id":1845,"date":"2007-03-06T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/03\/magic_for_begin\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T14:01:38","slug":"magic_for_begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/magic_for_begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic For Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=000724200X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nMagic For Beginners by Kelly Link comes <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2006\/02\/07\/kelly_links_magic_fo.html\">highly recommended<\/a>, and I&#8217;d been looking forward to picking up a copy for a while. Happily, it&#8217;s in a current 3 For 2 at Waterstones, so I&#8217;ve been reading Link&#8217;s stories over the last few days.<br \/>\nHer tales are very magical realism, and I really enjoyed them &#8211; some more than others. The title story is the best with an incredibly detailed view of a TV show featuring some strange characters. You&#8217;d just love a show like <em>The Library<\/em> to exist in reality. The Hortlak, set in a convenience store, was also great, with Zombies living nearby. I think overall, I preferred the longer stories to the shorter ones. But I love the throw away detail that constantly pops up through these tales.<br \/>\nCuriously, the book definitely falls into the SF\/Fantasy genre, yet someone at Harper Perennial believes that this is a &#8220;breakout&#8221; book and consequently you have to search the fiction shelves and tables in Waterstones and Borders to find this title. Indeed it&#8217;s noticeable that while crime fiction and new fiction are regularly featured in 3 For 2 offers, science fiction isn&#8217;t, aside from a few breakout Terry Pratchett and Iain M Banks novels. Are SF readers more likely to pay full price?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link comes highly recommended, and I&#8217;d been looking forward to picking up a copy for a while. Happily, it&#8217;s in a current 3 For 2 at Waterstones, so I&#8217;ve been reading Link&#8217;s stories over the last few days. Her tales are very magical realism, and I really enjoyed them &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}