{"id":1298,"date":"2016-01-12T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T01:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:14:54","slug":"dreaming-spies-by-laurie-r-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/15070169\/book\/122890999\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0345531817.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is book 13 of the Mary Russel stories of Sherlock Holmes.  This book is more a cultural story of Japan and Japanese culture in the 1920s than a true mystery, I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s enough information for the reader to solve the puzzle.  <\/p>\n<p>The story opens on a cruise from India to Japan.  Sherlock cannot relax and enjoy the trip, he finds questions to ponder, a suspicious English lord and an odd acrobat are part of a growing mystery that involves royalty and extortion.  <\/p>\n<p>The Japanese culture is exposed through two unusual characters.  They become closely intertwined in the mystery for most of the book.  They present a cultural experience that seems extreme, but can be forgiven due to the nature of these characters.  <\/p>\n<p>One of the books minor themes are haiku by Basho.  Each chapter begins with a haiku, presumably in the style of Basho.  The haiku does relate to events in the chapter and can provide additional meaning.  They are well worth reading for content.  <\/p>\n<p>Overall, the book has good pacing and is interesting enough to keep the reader involved.  Laurie King does not disappoint her audience.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is book 13 of the Mary Russel stories of Sherlock Holmes. This book is more a cultural story of Japan and Japanese culture in the 1920s than a true mystery, I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s enough information for the reader to solve the puzzle. The story opens on a cruise from India to Japan. Sherlock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-series","tag-laurie-r-king","tag-sherlock-holmes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}