{"id":1820,"date":"2012-03-10T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T12:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:46:59","slug":"the-sisters-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"The Sisters Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Sisters-Brothers-Patrick-deWitt\/dp\/1847083188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sisters_brothers-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Sisters Brothers\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sisters_brothers-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sisters_brothers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finished reading this book while sitting at the bar last night.  Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1779\" title=\"Cold Mountain\">Cold Mountain<\/a>, The Sisters Brothers is set in America in the 1800s, only a little earlier (1851) so it seems natural to compare the two books.  The Sisters Brothers is also something of an odyssey with lessons learned along the way but on a much smaller scale than in Cold Mountain.  The mood is lighter too.  Not that there aren&#8217;t some humourous moments in Cold Mountain, but there is less continual hardship and hunger in The Sisters Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>This book is very easy to read.  The story is fast-paced and swept me along with it.  There are a few wonderful, thought-provoking passages which slowed me down a little.  I think Cold Mountain trumps it in terms of scale and atmosphere but The Sisters Brothers is just as satisfactory a tale.<\/p>\n<p>(9th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading this book while sitting at the bar last night. Like Cold Mountain, The Sisters Brothers is set in America in the 1800s, only a little earlier (1851) so it seems natural to compare the two books. The Sisters Brothers is also something of an odyssey with lessons learned along the way but [&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-1820","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\/1820","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=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}