{"id":1242,"date":"2012-01-15T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T11:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:45:06","slug":"when-god-was-a-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"When God Was a Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/When-God-Rabbit-Sarah-Winman\/dp\/0755379284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/when_god_was_a_rabbit.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/When-God-Rabbit-Sarah-Winman\/dp\/0755379284\" width=\"177\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book hadn&#8217;t exactly been recommended to me, rather I was present when it was debated heatedly between two members of my family.  Intrigued, I acquired it.  <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get it at all.  It seems so disjointed, in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>The plot flits from one sensational event to another, never settling on anything for very long and leaving the reader wondering if they&#8217;ve missed something.  There is much &#8216;and this happened then this happened then this happened&#8217; but very little to emotionally engage the reader.  I would also have to sometimes re-read a paragraph or even a page as it was unclear which character it referred to.  I was irritated at the double spacing in conversations, which served to make every response seem more significant than it actually was.  I continued to read through to the end, hoping for a few explanations or a conclusion to tie the book together somehow.  None came.<\/p>\n<p>Some aspects of the book I did enjoy.  The nativity play deserves a special mention for dark humour.  There are beautiful descriptions of nature.  Elly&#8217;s outburst when she loses patience with Joe is very human and real.  But these raw, real moments are few and far between.  Most of the interactions feel wooden and stilted.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately I cannot recommend this book and don&#8217;t understand why it received so many rave reviews.<\/p>\n<p>(2nd in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book hadn&#8217;t exactly been recommended to me, rather I was present when it was debated heatedly between two members of my family. Intrigued, I acquired it. I didn&#8217;t get it at all. It seems so disjointed, in many ways. The plot flits from one sensational event to another, never settling on anything for very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}