{"id":12204,"date":"2022-03-08T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2022-03-08T20:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:42:50","slug":"the-invention-of-morel-by-adolfo-bioy-casarestranslated-by-ruth-l-c-simms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-invention-of-morel-by-adolfo-bioy-casarestranslated-by-ruth-l-c-simms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresTranslated by Ruth L.C. Simms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s satisfying when I pick up a book I&#8217;ve been meaning to read for years and end up feeling like I appreciate it more now than I would have if I&#8217;d read it when I first heard of it, thanks to other things I&#8217;ve read now that I hadn&#8217;t read yet then.  This book made me fondly remember reading <em>Piranesi<\/em> by Susanna Clarke in 2020, and also made me think of this passage from the most recent thing I read (<em>LaserWriter II<\/em> by Tamara Shopsin): &#8220;ponder Nietzsche&#8217;s thoughts of eternal recurrence. Imagine this life you live now, you have lived before. Life is a loop that repeats infinitely and exactly. Every pain and pleasure shall return to you. Do you want to be a coward immortal?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I liked this book a whole lot&#8212;the fugitive narrator, the island and its strange vegetation, the image of the sky with two suns, two moons. Abandoned buildings, halls of mirrors, echoes, tides and floods, a room where the floor is an aquarium, mysterious machines in a mysterious basement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s satisfying when I pick up a book I&#8217;ve been meaning to read for years and end up feeling like I appreciate it more now than I would have if I&#8217;d read it when I first heard of it, thanks to other things I&#8217;ve read now that I hadn&#8217;t read yet then. This book made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}