{"id":953,"date":"2007-08-16T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?page_id=953"},"modified":"2007-10-08T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T20:18:03","slug":"ten-pages-in-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/ten-pages-in-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten-pages-in book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2005, I had an epiphany<\/a>. (They don’t come too often – that might have been my last one.) I said:<\/p>\n

So I got to thinking – don’t you find that early in a book there’s a tipping point where you decide whether a book is worth the effort? At 10 or 20 pages in, you can still comfortably walk away and not feel like you’ve invested too much to quit. Or, like with Time Traveler’s Wife, you know you’re so hooked that you start canceling playdates and dental appointments just to make more time to read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I started my signature series of 10-pages-in book reviews. The review doesn’t actually have to come at the 10-pages point; that’s just shorthand, a quick way to say, “I haven’t finished the book yet, but here’s what I think so far.”<\/p>\n

So here they are, from the most recent all the way back to the original.
\nEverything’s Eventual<\/a> by Stephen King
\nThe Ruins<\/a> by Scott Smith
\nThe Calligrapher <\/a> by Edward Docx
\nChildren of Men <\/a> by PD James
\nBlackbird House <\/a> By Alice Hoffman
\nJPod<\/a> by Douglas Coupland
\nHitching Rides with Buddha<\/a> by Will Ferguson
\nThe Historian <\/a> by Elizabeth Kostova
\nThe Unwritten Girl <\/a> by James Bow
\nCome Back <\/a> By Claire and Mia Fontaine
\nBeauty Tips from Moose Jaw <\/a> by Will Ferguson
\nBehind the Scenes at the Museum <\/a> by Kate Atkinson
\nLiterary Mama <\/a> edited by Andi Buchanan and Amy Hudock
\nWoman First, Family Always <\/a> by Kathryn Sansone
\nA Long Way Down<\/a> by Nick Hornby
\nThe Penelopiad <\/a> by Margaret Atwood
\nBlood Memory <\/a> by Greg Iles
\nNo 1 Ladies Detective Agency <\/a> by Alexander McCall Smith
\nTyping: A Life in 26 Keys <\/a> by Matt Cohen
\nMotion Sickness <\/a> by David Layton
\nThe Bird Factory <\/a> by David Layton
\nEleanor Rigby <\/a> by Douglas Coupland
\nOn Writing <\/a> by Stephen King
\nCase Histories <\/a> by Kate Atkinson
\nThe Time Traveler’s Wife <\/a> by Audrey Niffenegger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2005, I had an epiphany. (They don’t come too often – that might have been my last one.) I said: So I got to thinking – don’t you find that early in a book there’s a tipping point where you decide whether a book is worth the effort? At 10 or 20 pages … Continue reading “Ten-pages-in book reviews”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-953","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}