{"id":1852,"date":"2015-06-22T21:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T03:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2016-04-16T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T18:19:37","slug":"washington-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Washington Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Henry James,\u00c2\u00a0originally published in 1880 as a magazine serial, Audiobook read by Lorna Raver, 2008, Tantor Media, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>This is a novel about a young girl living in New York City about 1830 and her affair with an unworthy suitor.\u00c2\u00a0 The novel itself is a bit dull but the reading by Lorna Raver is well done.\u00c2\u00a0 Her portrayal of Catherine&#8217;s aunt as a nosy busybody is superb!<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that the novel would give a little bit more insight into New York&#8217;s culture and society in those times, but the novel was so focused on Catherine and her relationships with her father, her aunt, and her suitor that it didn&#8217;t leave much opportunity to dwell on other aspects of life in New York at those times.<\/p>\n<p>I think the novel would have been a bit dull to read, but I really enjoyed the audiobook.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"4 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Henry James,\u00c2\u00a0originally published in 1880 as a magazine serial, Audiobook read by Lorna Raver, 2008, Tantor Media, Inc. This is a novel about a young girl living in New York City about 1830 and her affair with an unworthy <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1852\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}