{"id":118,"date":"2009-09-20T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-09-20T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T15:53:20","slug":"the-book-pile-border-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/09\/20\/the-book-pile-border-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Pile: Border Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/bordersongs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"370\" \/>I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehighesttide.com\/\">Jim Lynch&#8217;s<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781582346052\">The Highest Tide<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the publication of the book, I&#8217;ve kept my eye open for Lynch&#8217;s next book. Apparently, my eyes have been closed this summer, because his latest book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Border-Songs-Jim-Lynch\/dp\/030727117X\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1\">Border Songs<\/a><\/em>, has been out for a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Some reviewers have said that it&#8217;s the same plot as <em>The Highest Tide<\/em>, only with different characters and a different setting.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if that turns out to be true.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the first two chapters on my iTouch (Kindle application), and it&#8217;s just more good writing! It feels much different from <em>The Highest Tide<\/em>, too.<\/p>\n<p>I loved Lynch&#8217;s writing in <em>The Highest Tide<\/em> and suspect that I&#8217;ll love <em>Border Songs, <\/em>too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Jim Lynch&#8217;s, The Highest Tide. Since the publication of the book, I&#8217;ve kept my eye open for Lynch&#8217;s next book. Apparently, my eyes have been closed this summer, because his latest book, Border Songs, has been out for a few months. Some reviewers have said that it&#8217;s the same plot as The Highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}