{"id":2966,"date":"2022-06-15T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:15:42","slug":"the-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2966","title":{"rendered":"The Anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Herv\u00c3\u00a9 Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter, 2021, Kindle Edition, Other Press <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something happens on a flight from Paris to New York when the plane encounters a huge thunderstorm that wasn&#8217;t predicted.  After the plane emerges from the clouds, things are different.  The author unfolds the story very subtly, so the reader doesn&#8217;t initially know what is going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story&#8217;s premise is extremely captivating, but I sometimes got lost in the philosophical and theoretical topics that were included. There were many threads and characters that made the book a little harder to follow than I would have preferred.  At least one of these threads could have used further development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel is an extremely interesting book that could have been even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Herv\u00c3\u00a9 Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter, 2021, Kindle Edition, Other Press \u00c2\u00a0 Something happens on a flight from Paris to New York when the plane encounters a huge thunderstorm that wasn&#8217;t predicted. After the plane emerges from the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2966\"><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],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","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=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}