{"id":1363,"date":"2014-10-26T18:47:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T22:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2014-10-26T18:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T22:47:05","slug":"book-review-a-morbid-taste-of-bones-by-ellis-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  A Morbid Taste of Bones by Ellis Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/321545.A_Morbid_Taste_for_Bones\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1296427936m\/321545.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/321545.A_Morbid_Taste_for_Bones\">A Morbid Taste for Bones<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4046.Ellis_Peters\">Ellis Peters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1089944762\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a dim memory of reading this book many years ago and not liking it (I&#8217;m not quite sure why). I picked this up (again?) a couple of weeks ago and found myself enjoying it very much.<br \/>\nBrother Cadfael is a Welsh Benedictine monk who is asked to accompany a group of monks to Wales to retrieve a Welsh saint&#8217;s bones for their monastery. Naturally, a murder results. And Brother Cadfael&#8211;who has a rather unusual background for a monk&#8211;sets out to find the murderer. He does so successfully and contrives to further a romance as well.<br \/>\nThe book is well-written and the secondary characters are well developed. The plot is tight and convincing as well. The pacing is leisurely (which may be why I wasn&#8217;t as enamored all those years ago), but that allows for the atmosphere and period flavor to come through better.<br \/>\nI look forward to reading the second book in the series!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have a dim memory of reading this book many years ago and not liking it (I&#8217;m not quite sure why). I picked this up (again?) a couple of weeks ago and found myself enjoying it very much. Brother Cadfael is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[249,336,248,247,115,108],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-morbid-taste-of-bones","tag-books","tag-brother-cadfael","tag-ellis-peters","tag-historical-mysteries","tag-mysteries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-lZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}