{"id":2993,"date":"2011-08-18T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T00:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2011-08-18T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T00:18:44","slug":"the-magicians-by-lev-grossman-viking-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-magicians-by-lev-grossman-viking-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magicians by Lev Grossman Viking, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first read this book in October 2009, and I don&#8217;t have much to add to my original post about it, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=730\">here<\/a>. This summer, I heard that there was a sequel out, and promptly put a hold on the sequel at the library, but felt like I should re-read this first. I felt like didn&#8217;t remember a ton of detail from my first reading (though as I read, I kept getting surprised by what I did remember), and I wanted to reacquaint myself with the characters and their world. This time around I found the book pretty un-putdownable, which I think was true the first time too. Reading other people&#8217;s reviews on Goodreads, I&#8217;m still surprised by how many people find the protagonist, Quentin, totally unlikeable because he&#8217;s privileged but still unhappy. Other than that, I don&#8217;t have much to say, except that I&#8217;m excited to read the sequel, and also, I love that the good folks at Viking created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brakebills.com\/index_real.html\">this<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first read this book in October 2009, and I don&#8217;t have much to add to my original post about it, which is here. This summer, I heard that there was a sequel out, and promptly put a hold on the sequel at the library, but felt like I should re-read this first. I felt [&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-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","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=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}