{"id":1894,"date":"2013-09-17T21:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2013-09-17T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:02:49","slug":"review-of-bob-shacochiss-the-woman-who-lost-her-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/review-of-bob-shacochiss-the-woman-who-lost-her-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Bob Shacochis&#039;s &quot;The Woman Who Lost Her Soul&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my book review of Bob Shacochis&#8217;s <em>The Woman Who Lost Her Soul<\/em> appeared in the Dallas Morning News last Sunday, and can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/entertainment\/books\/20130914-book-review-the-woman-who-lost-her-soul-by-bob-shacochis.ece\">here<\/a>. One thing remarkable about the book is that it&#8217;s quite long (720 pages), and I wonder who reads long novels these days. It seems there is never enough time. But I realize there are other books of equal length or longer that reached the best seller lists, so apparently there is still room for the long novel, which is good news. I particularly thought <em>The Woman Who Lost Her Soul<\/em> got better as it went on, as the story grew more and more complex, and Shacochis intertwined a series of stories that spanned from WWII to the mid-Nineties.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1895\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/9780802119827_custom-859dcaec3f2db4f038860f3d22720a7e3970f841-s6-c30-690x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"949\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my book review of Bob Shacochis&#8217;s The Woman Who Lost Her Soul appeared in the Dallas Morning News last Sunday, and can be found here. One thing remarkable about the book is that it&#8217;s quite long (720 pages), and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/review-of-bob-shacochiss-the-woman-who-lost-her-soul\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[54,55,85,95],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-booksfilm","tag-bob-shacochis","tag-book-reviewing","tag-fiction-writing","tag-good-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}