{"id":1779,"date":"2012-03-02T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:46:31","slug":"cold-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Cold Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cold-Mountain-Charles-Frazier\/dp\/0340680598\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cold_mountain1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cold_mountain\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1794\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book starts off unpromisingly.  I went back to the beginning a few times because I kept losing interest during the first chapter, abandoning the attempt then forgetting what I&#8217;d read when I picked it up to try again.  But after the first couple of chapters the protagonist starts to have interesting adventures which held my attention.  <\/p>\n<p>It also took me some time to get used to the language which is of the time the book is set in: 1865.  Although I had to look up many words at first, I remembered their meanings when they appeared again.  Then my reading flowed and I was transported back in time.  It was so enjoyable that I wouldn&#8217;t mind reading it again.  It&#8217;s a story of adventure, friendship, hardship, love and nature.  It is something of an epic.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot more to the book than the language and the plot.  There are recurring themes, symbolism and so on but I didn&#8217;t look into those aspects in much detail this time around.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/sep\/16\/book-club-cold-mountain-frazier\">Guardian book club examined the book<\/a> and there are some good notes on the novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/lit\/coldmountain\/summary.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(7th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book starts off unpromisingly. I went back to the beginning a few times because I kept losing interest during the first chapter, abandoning the attempt then forgetting what I&#8217;d read when I picked it up to try again. But after the first couple of chapters the protagonist starts to have interesting adventures which held [&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-1779","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\/1779","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=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}